35
ratings logged
July 2026
Six songs and one of them is twenty-one minutes, so you know what you're in for. The clean stretch in the middle of The Count of Tuscany is the reason I keep coming back, Petrucci quits shredding for two minutes and just lets the arpeggios ring out. Portnoy's last night with the band before the long exile and you can hear it, he's hitting everything a little too hard. Summer Sonic crowd sounds tiny in the mix, wish I'd been in it. anyway
Way outside what I normally spin. I'm a basement-show twinkly-guitar guy and this is a battleship set to a stadium chorus. Put the Bismarck follow-up on half as a joke and the chorus just got me. It's paint-by-numbers Sabaton, you can watch every gear turn, and the World of Warships tie-in is about as subtle as a torpedo. Still, sometimes you want a hook the size of a building and a history lesson you didn't ask for. Fun as hell, anyway.
June 2026
