Symphony X Survivor-Twilight In Olympus

[Lolzeez]

Last Album's Results

1.The Divine Wings Of Tragedy
2.The Accolade
3.Candlelight Fantasia
4.Of Sins And Shadows
5.Sea Of Lies
6.Out Of The Ashes
7.Pharaoh
8.The Eyes Of Medusa
9.The Witching Hour

Now this album is gonna be hard. After Sonata leaves of course.

[Lolzeez]

Forgot the "Round 1" in the title 

[Scorpion]

I like Sonata.

The Relic. A little too generic for my tastes.

[Adami]

Dragons den. Could have gone with relic though.

Sonata rocks.

[Unlegit]

Sonata.

[Lucidity]

C'mon guys, Sonata's awesome. Dragon's Den.

[Zook]

Isn't Sonata like a minute long?

[Adami]

Isn't Sonata like a minute long?

A minute of awesome.

[Zook]

I don't remember it being awesome.


EDIT: Yeah, pretty forgettable.

[black_biff_stadler]

Sonata very easily.

I always forget about this album despite being very well versed in it since DT/SX were collectively my top 2 bands for like 3 years. I'd say this album is for SX, what Deliverance is for Opeth.

For SX, Divine Wings is widely considered their best effort and Twilight, while very good, is generally considered to be on a lower level. It was then followed by V which is basically considered to be a close runner-up to Divine Wings. Then came The Odyssey, which also made a big splash, brought in many new fans, and marked a change in style.

Similarly, Opeth's Blackwater Park is their consensus favorite. Deliverance didn't garner the acclaim that BWP did but it wasn't bad by any means either. Next came Ghost Reveries (technically, Damnation came next but it was a companion to Deliverance) which brought in a shitload of new fans and is basically the 1A to BWP. Finally, we have Watershed. It was a dramatic stylistic shift which cemented keyboard as a prominent fixture of their sound and marked their highest charting at that time. For bonus points, we could even draw a parallel between Paradise Lost and Heritage in that they both continued the bands' ascent to higher levels of commercial success despite having a very lukewarm reception from longtime fans.

[Adami]

I agree with all of that Negro_Floyd, except I consider V to be their best album by far and Divine wings a strong runner up.

[Mladen]

Sonata

Man, isn't this album awesome or what? 

[Cyclopssss]

Very underrated, almost forgotten album by them. I rate it about third or fourth on the list.

[wolfking]

I honestly don't know how anyone could seriously vote anything but Sonata.

[black_biff_stadler]

I agree with all of that Negro_Floyd, except I consider V to be their best album by far and Divine wings a strong runner up.

V's cool. I'd say that it's in a 3-way eternally-revolving-door tie with TDG and TiO for being a very close second to TDWoT imo. Even though that leaves the s/t debut as my 5th favorite, I'd still say I enjoy the s/t at least 90% as much as I do TDWoT so there's really virtually no separation among their first 5 albums for me.

I think the biggest thing keeping me from holding V in the same regard as TDWoT is the fact that I've just about always hated the way albums with multiple interludes have their flow interrupted by them. I can see how for some folks those interludes may tie the bigger tracks together but for me it always feels like they're getting in the way of longer and (usually) more enjoyable tracks. I will say, however, that I think Rediscovery (Segue) is spine-chillingly gorgeous and the Live on the Edge of Forever version of On the Breath of Poseidon is thrilling.

The other big factor in V not being my favorite is that my least-liked songs on it pale in comparison to my least-liked tracks on TDWoT.

[Lolzeez]

I agree with all of that Negro_Floyd, except I consider V to be their best album by far and Divine wings a strong runner up.

The other big factor in V not being my favorite is that my least-liked songs on it pale in comparison to my least-liked tracks on TDWoT.

THIS

[RuRoRul]

I agree with all of that Negro_Floyd, except I consider V to be their best album by far and Divine wings a strong runner up.

The other big factor in V not being my favorite is that my least-liked songs on it pale in comparison to my least-liked tracks on TDWoT.

THIS

I would say the opposite - V is one of their most consistent albums and every song on it (except for the interludes) is better than the weaker tracks on DWOT, for me. That's the main reason why DWOT ranks 5th, below the top tier of 4 very solid albums, while V could be my favourite SX album on a good day (not much separates them imo).

Anyway, Sonata.

[Zook]

I honestly don't know how anyone could seriously vote anything but Sonata.

Cause Dragon's Den is soooooooooo cheesy!

[Lolzeez]

I honestly don't know how anyone could seriously vote anything but Sonata.

Cause Dragon's Den is soooooooooo cheesy!

Joining you next round.

[YtseJamittaja]

Sonata.

[jjrock88]

Sonata

Man, isn't this album awesome or what?