- Record Label: Roadrunner Records
- Release Date: Sep 9, 2011
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Kerrang!Oct 25, 2011As ever, they do a fine job here juggling endless solos among intricate vocal passages and harmonies. [Sep 2011, p.51]
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Oct 13, 2011A Dramatic Turn of Events, while not a perfect offering, has enough of what makes Dream Theater attractive to make it a necessary purchase for fans.
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Oct 13, 2011Ultimately, A Dramatic Turn of Events probably isn't too far from what this band would've created even with Portnoy in the ranks. It still sounds like a Dream Theater album, and that's all anyone's ever going to ask for.
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Oct 13, 2011The bulk of A Dramatic Turn Events finds Dream Theater perhaps too settled into their ways.
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Q MagazineOct 13, 2011[Mangini's] speed is not in much evidence on A Dramatic Turn of Events, though, where prog-metal riffs give way far too easily to pianos and technical indulgence. [Oct 2011, p.120]
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