Dream Theater - Constant Motion (Roadrunner)
2/5
By: Alex Lee Thomson
You have to ask what this band's guitars have done wrong to be attacked as they have been on this metal-maximized first single from their 6th (6th? Really?) studio album of the same name. OK, so it's a matter of taste for this single, or really - the lack of other peoples - but we've tried to see through the shockingly destructive and pointless guitars to ask if there's anything lurking beneath the repetitively harsh façade of the track.
There is purpose to the song, a slightly malevolent and daunting one, and one that's never going to make this song popular, but purpose nevertheless. It's a great display of guitar belting, and the louder and faster you like your guitars probably the better, and with a rip-roaring core pushing and pushing the verses forward into the collapse of its mammoth chorus it almost seems worthwhile, but when the song finishes you have to admit, you're kind of glad of the fact. Metal music is hard to get right, and so many acts depend on the gullibility of their audience to jump onto anything which is hard enough, a gullibility that Dream Theatre are only more than happy to extort with a track which is about as original as a joke set in a pub.
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