Matt7

I fully quote lux. Your review hides a great provocation. I think you knew you would spark controversy by reviewing an album that many fans consider a milestone. Yours is a direct provocation and for this reason it loses value and credibility. Anyway... I hope that when the live album is released in June or July (the live album that I hope to be the first to review) it will be read by the fans and those who appreciate DT. I wouldn't want uninformed people about their music or those who don't appreciate it (which is also legitimate) to tarnish their name by passing them off as mediocre and "incapable."

I've already presented my arguments... and politely, unlike you, who called me an adolescent after saying that I bring sadness and that I practically understand nothing (you imply that). I've made my points. You rely on outdated and obsolete stylistic devices. Musical styles that actually mask their deficiencies with false experimentation or fake solutions that ultimately have nothing artistic about them except for the ability to shock those who listen. You should realize on your own that the songs of all the bands you mentioned have a compositional and technical simplicity that is disarming and this cannot and should not be considered art, but only the skill of a group of incompetents in creating sweet melodies and pleasant atmospheres or experiments that disguise serious, serious deficiencies. I'm talking about the Cure, Sonic Youth, etc., who, beneath the apparent "innovation," have very little. I don't intend to revisit my arguments, also because I know you'll say I'm talking nonsense and that I don't realize it, implicitly calling me crazy and childish.

The truth is that Easy preaches well and acts poorly... he talks about open-mindedness when he is the first to have a closed mind. Moreover, your (Easy, I'm talking to you) technical-instrumental-compositiona l ignorance is evident from your own tastes.

As a good Italian dreamer, I no longer write... I am truly outraged!!!!!!!

I'm not responding to you anymore because I'm starting to get pissed off at Italian Dreamers!!!!!!

Dear easy.. I'm not a teenager, but I’m 20 years old... and I've been playing since I was 9, so... you don't have this great musical culture for the same reason: you know about what you like and you don't judge the rest as beautiful or anyway good. Don't deny it, it’s true. If you want a great album that you will definitely judge disgusting and devoid of identity and ideas, listen to "FOCUS" by Cynic... tell me if it lacks personality.. anyway, I believe this... I reiterate, the highest expression of prog.

The very fact that you say their heterogeneity is a huge disadvantage for you. A heterogeneous group is not musically poor, but rather very cultured as it manages to blend every type of style united in their music. And this is the personality of the DTs, which is not to be classified under a single label, but under multiple ones. I believe it is essential for a band to have various paths to explore; otherwise, it becomes boring and people criticize them for always doing the same things. I draw my conclusion precisely from this closure you have. You say they don't have a style, and you should appreciate it because they can do so much and do it well. As for the arrangements, I wouldn't want to criticize you too harshly... but it's impossible for people who have studied as much as they have to create poor and unsuccessful arrangements. They don’t really rely on clichés; I don’t see how you could discern clichés in the DTs. What you say is absurd because aside from their influences, which are more or less noticeable, the rest is music of a superior quality compared to the rest of the musical mass. And I challenge any of you to not find various kinds of inspiration in other bands... All the greats draw inspiration from equally great sources, and that doesn't make them subject to criticism. The trick is in making their influences their own and not plagiarizing them, as the DTs do, in my opinion. They have many influences, but their sound is unmistakable and cannot be compared to anything else. It’s impossible to assign them a genre or a definition because they know how to do everything, and this can only be a strength. For a musician (more or less) like me, being able to do so much is incredibly important, and I can't do it. They manage to do it all too well. And wanting to criticize them for their "spanning" across multiple genres shows that perhaps you haven’t fully understood their musical proposal.

Easy, I didn't want to tell you this, but in my opinion, you are the one with a somewhat low musical culture to judge DT as a musically weak band. Perhaps I also have this cultural deficiency, but you make it too obvious...

I dare anyone to conceive a song like Metropolis.

scant..but I mean...it's a bit blasphemous, really...anyway..I respect your opinion.