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Generally favorable reviews- based on 76 Ratings
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Positive: 55 out of 76
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Mixed: 15 out of 76
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Negative: 6 out of 76
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Mar 12, 2016This is one of the greatest concept albums made! Soon It will be with Pink Floyd's era and Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. If you enjoy dystopian governments, then this is for you.
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Feb 1, 2016
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Feb 1, 2016Best album since Six Degrees. More melodic than the previous ones, but definitely a great piece of rock-opera music.
Pros: Rudess at his best, conceptual album very solid, technically flawless
Cons: Myung a bit "backwards", many very good songs but it misses one giant song (but it's okay) -
Jan 31, 2016
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Jan 31, 2016"The Astonishing" takes the irksome nuisance that has been John Petrucci's knack for religious platitudes and makes it the crux of bloated double-disc LP. If you like ham-fisted soap opera plots with religious overtones presented as a bloated two-hour marathon, "The Astonishing" is for you.
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Jan 29, 2016
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Feb 1, 2016With seamless storytelling through its 34 songs, magical moments of intricate instrumental interplay abound, magnified by an orchestra and massed choirs, while a template for the staging of a musical production sees the principals realising a grandiose next-step in their creative development.
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Kerrang!Jan 29, 2016An epic adventure that is, in every single way, truly astonishing indeed. [16 Jan 2016, p.51]
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Jan 29, 2016The results won't please every Dream Theater partisan, nor will they convert the skeptical. But it would take a hard heart to deny Petrucci, co-composer and keyboardist Jordan Rudess and their mates credit for the boldness of their aspirations and the assurance with which they achieve them.