What are your thoughts on Portnoy's Falling Into Infinity Demos?

[TheGreatPretender]

I meant live, after Finally Free, its called Metrop. '00 overture.

Oh that. Yes, that was awesome. It felt like a true reprise to Metropolis Pt. 1.

[hefdaddy42]

I get the impression (from interviews) they heavily suppress any b-side songs they write and don't release them.

No, they just don't write them.  There are no b-side songs that have been written and not released.

[LTE3]

I am very grateful that MP made the effort to make the FII demos available so we could hear the songs as they were meant to be heard. I'm also really glad that in recent years, the band actually went back to playing certain songs in their original forms (Lines in the Sand, Hollow Years, Burning My Soul) etc.

Raise the Knife is a masterpiece. I haven't gotten round to thinking about my top 50 songs yet, but I'm pretty sure that song will crack the top 20. I love it a lot more than most of the songs that actually ending up being on the album. It's a great shame that songs like this never got an official, polished album release but at least we have these demos and live releases. The Score version of Raise the Knife is just fantastic.

Having said all of that, there's a lot to appreciate about FII the way it is. It's by far the album that took the longest to grow on me, but my god... when it did... 

It sounds like I need to purchase this. I agree with you on the Raise the Knife tune, I was blown away the first time I heard it with happened to be at Radio City in 2006. Where is the fucking Blu-Ray of Score??