Hmm interesting one to rank...
8. Repentance - I can appreciate this song for what it is, a bit of a breather amongst the freneticism of the rest of the AA suite, it's kinda a nice lull when you listen to the suite as a whole but I find it pretty boring in itself.
7. Constant Motion - I don't actively dislike this either, for what it is it's great, but it doesn't make me feel a whole lot.
6. Ministry of Lost Souls - I really dislike the opening to this track and the whole ballady chorus stuff going on but the instrumental section is really good, not their best by a long shot but very enjoyable. I'd just never choose to go and put it on. In fact I hardly ever listen to it.
5. The Dark Eternal Night - Great track, DT at their most fun, I really dig it. It's hard and bouncy and doesn't take itself too seriously. Although I genuinely can't listen to it without hearing the Mario Bros mash up in my mind anymore
4. Forsaken - I actually love this song, to me it's always been about DT scrapping their progressive side and simply writing a straight forward nu-metal style heavy ballad, but doing it unbelievably well. For people who think DT's music is a needlessly complex exercise in showing off, I would show them this song and how even when constraining themselves to five minutes, they can still write a great song.
3. Prophets of War - I love this track, it's something really different, it's very Muse, I find it really uplifting and powerful, I still remember back when they were recording this and got a load of fans in to do the 'TIME FOR CHANGE' stuff, it gives it a real emotional edge for me to to think of how awesome it must be for all those people to have been commemorated forever in one of our favourite bands' songs.
2. In the Presence of Enemies Part 1 - one of my favourite DT epics, and easily one of my favourite DT album openers in their whole catalogue. From the minute I heard the first twenty seconds of this track I knew this album was gonna be killer. I love everything about this song, I can't even begin to go into it because nothing short of a second by second detailed analysis would do it justice
whenever I listen to this song I'm consumed with shivers, I genuinely don't get why it's not more well regarded within their body of music but each to their own.
1. In the Presence of Enemies Part 2 - Part 2 I love even more than Part 1 purely for the section from about 6 minutes onward, it's freakin' genius, there is so much tension, so much driving force behind the music, the guitar work between the vocal parts falling away to chugging above these awesome cheesy metal lyrics about cups overflowing with blood... I cannot listen to this track and not get a lump in my throat. From the second that midsection begins I'm working up to the culmination right before the instrumental section which blows my mind. This to me is DT very close to being at their finest. DT have always been my favourite band for how intensely they make me feel and this is one of those parts of their songs that drives me closer to how I imagine people feel when they say they had a spiritual experience than pretty much anything else I've ever experienced. It's perfect.
All in all the whole album ranks pretty highly in my overall DT album ranking, I know loads of people were disappointed but it's a great collection of enjoyable tracks, most of it nothing too special overall but ITPOE pushes it up there and makes it indispensable for me.
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