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If I could narrow down their discography to some essential albums (for me, anyway), it'd look like this:
Images and Words
Awake
Metropolis Pt. II: Scenes from a Memory
Black Clouds and Silver Linings 
I don't have Black Clouds and Silver Linings, but the other ones you listed are pretty much the only albums I have from them, other than Systematic Chaos.

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I feel their time has passed. Their sound is too robotic, I am getting no emotions from them. It feels average and boring. Their last big epic-Illumination Theory can´t stand up to their legacy, to beast of the song such as Change of Seasons or Octavarium. Also, LaBrie… I am feeling really sorry about him.

They made bad steps, they won´t get far. They reached their peak a long time ago.

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Any Dream Theater fans here ? I need help finding a song, It was a song I downloaded in Ares but it was with wrong Label. "Panic Attack" and "The Dark Eternal Night" but I already checked them on YouTube, it was a different version. Panic Attack had a very nice intro with some riffs and The Dark Eternal Night was 7 Mins of Instrumental. And Yeah it was Dream Theater because it sounded very like them but I can't fint these 2 songs, and the funny thing is that this is not the only song I can't find. Many other ares songs was with Wrong Labels and I can't find them in anyway

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1 hour ago, Astarte said:

Any Dream Theater fans here ? I need help finding a song, It was a song I downloaded in Ares but it was with wrong Label. "Panic Attack" and "The Dark Eternal Night" but I already checked them on YouTube, it was a different version. Panic Attack had a very nice intro with some riffs and The Dark Eternal Night was 7 Mins of Instrumental. And Yeah it was Dream Theater because it sounded very like them but I can't fint these 2 songs, and the funny thing is that this is not the only song I can't find. Many other ares songs was with Wrong Labels and I can't find them in anyway

I’d imagine the instrumental would be either Erotomania or Dance Of Eternity, too vague on the other one though, tip for you however, ever tried using the app called Shazam? If you can get it on your phone just play the song into the mic.

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I absolutely love Dream Theater. Scenes From a Memory is my favorite album of all time (as you can assume from my profile picture), and Portnoy is probably my most significant source of inspiration.

I went to their show in Israel this year, and Petrucci, Myung, Ruddes and Mangini absolutely KILLED it, but Labrie was really not good. In the alien he was just horrible, and in the rest of the show he okay minus. Anyway the volume was just CRAZY, and I was in the back.

To sum up, DT is a studio band, not a live band.

 

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