Product Description

Fifteenth album from the Long Island rock act who formed in1985. The album features Jordan Rudess on keyboards, who replaced Derek Sherinian in 1999. They are influenced by acts such as Led Zeppelin, Yes and Queen.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Glass prison
2. Blind faith
3. Misunderstood
4. Great debate
5. Disappear

Disc 2:

1. Overture
2. About to crash
3. War inside my head
4. Test that stumped them all
5. Goodnight kiss
6. Solitary shell
7. About to crash (reprise)
8. Losing time/Grand finale

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4203 in Music
• Released on: 2002-01-21
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Enhanced

Amazon.co.uk Review
Never a band to do things by halves, Dream Theater's Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence is a two-disc extravaganza with a title track that clocks in at a prog-tastic 42 minutes. Following very much in the style of their previous studio release Scenes from a Memory, the "Six Degrees" piece, which occupies the entire second disc, is divided into eight movements beginning of course with the now-obligatory "Overture". It's all good, meaty stuff, but the quasi-symphonic structure isn't really justified by the music, which alternately noodles and thrashes about in a somewhat haphazard manner; while singer James LaBrie's elliptical storytelling struggles to make an impression over the rest of the band's stunningly virtuosic onslaught. The other disc has five chunky shorter pieces (averaging about 10 minutes each) which hearken back to the grungier sound of their Awake album. Guitarist John Petrucci dominates proceedings here perhaps more than he should, and only fearsome drummer Mike Portnoy can compete in the sheer volume and notes-per-second competition. The result is an album that fulfils all the fans' expectations of what this band do best. Despite the "progressive" tag, Dream Theater have, it seems, found a formula and they're sticking to it.--Mark Walker

Customer Reviews

Calm down lads!!!!
I bought this album a couple of weeks ago and I just cannot get into it. When you buy a Dream Theater album you expect some amazing work from a set of truly super talented musicians, and this album does not let you down on the individual front. Unfortunately no matter how talented they are, it appears DT forgot a main ingredient here - Songs!
Impressive twiddling, drumming and experimentation gives way to simply awful messy 'songs'. On some tracks I have tried so hard to feel the music but get shot down in a wall of confusion and over the top twaddle.
How on earth you other guys rate this so highly is beyond me. I am sure you are all thinking I am obviously not a true DT fan, but I have all of their albums, some of which I prefer more than others but I like them all apart from this one.
We all know what they are capable of and how skillful they are, so how they come up with this spagetti mix of an album is confusing. Poor old LeBrie is an amazing singer but has to make way while the others show off. He must surely get frustrated with this. Luckily they got back on track after this album. This will be used as a shelf filler and nothing else.

Fantastic album
Six Degrees is Dream Theater's 6th studio album. The first disc features 5 extensive tracks ranging from 9 - 15 odd minutes each. 'The Glass Prison' opens with Mike Portnoy's first insight to his addiction to acohol and drugs - telling the 12 stages of the Alcoholics Anonomous programme. The Glass Prison recited steps 1 to 3 and their later albums continue with the other 9 steps - the saga is still being written today and will be played in it's entirity once finished.

The rest of the first disc creates an ultimate prog fusion with the use of real studio experiments - speeding parts up, slowing them down and using unbelievable time signatures and structure.

The second disc holds a 42 minute epic depicting 8 stages of mental decline - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance. Portnoy writes of personal relationships with the subject matter. The music isn't as progressive or aggressive as the first disc - it doesn't live up to their previous concept album 'Scenes from a Memory' but it has it's moments of genious and rounds off with a Dream Theater anthem - Grand Finale / Losing Time.

The song played in it's entirity can be found on the 'Score' DVD with a full philharmonic orchestra.

A great listen and depiction of the band so get buying!

Simply... Superb
As the follow-up album to Scenes From a Memory, this record had a lot to live up to. How the band would top their previous effort would have been a step too far for most other bands. However, in a manner typical only of DT, they have managed to come up with a collection of fantastic new material and, not only that, in a double album format!
Here we have basically two albums packaged as one and neither "side" will disappoint seasoned DT fans. If there are people out there who are unfamiliar with the band's work, this offering presents a tantalising flavour of just about every side to the band's prolific output. Throughout the epic journey that is Disc 2, we go from the Pantera-esque riffage in the chorus of The Test That Stumped Them All to the exquisite acoustic meanderings of Solitary Shell, ending up with the suitably grandiose Losing Time/Grand Finale. In short,Three Degrees.. is 42 minutes or so of near musical perfection. And then there's the first disc which would have been accepted as a fine album in its own right. Glass Prison, Misunderstood & Blind Faith are excellent extended tracks displaying the virtuosity of each member of this extraordinary band. The riffs in Glass Prison are particularly splendid and surely a homage to the best of Metallica, Megadeth et al. Need I say more....buy!