Hello again! I have been downloading Sonata Arctica’s “Reckoning Night” album track-by-track from Apple’s iTunes store. So far, it’s an awesome album! I have listened to half of it already, and I just dowloaded the last 3 tracks this morning. This group has some of the most sonically and melodically intense music I’ve heard in awhile. I wrote a partial review of the album for Amazon.com, which I’ll be updating very soon, and they still get 5 stars IMHO!

I also downloaded Dream Theater’s “Train of Thought” from iTMS. I’m also impressed with this one, but not as much as for “Reckoning Night”, mainly because it contains the same level of musicianship I’ve come to expect from these guys. James LaBrie does dramatically different things with his voice, which is a good thing… he needed to expand his vocals. However, in the song “Honor Thy Father”, his vocal work gets slightly irritating. John Petrucci does his familiar brilliant guitarwork, and Mike Portnoy proves once again that he can mop the floor with half of the other drummers in the world. Haven’t listened to all of the album yet, but I can tell already that it’s better than “Falling Into Infinity”! (what they were thinking when they cooked that album up, I really don’t wanna know!)

Well, gotta do the weekend chores… will write later!

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