Ok Darkes I can see you're passionate about this so lemme just sit you down and explain it how me and a few other "bashers" are seeing it. Okay? Cool.
So Dream Theater is like five chefs working in a 5 star restaurant. Every single one is amazing at what they do and has the ability to produce high quality products. When the restaurant opened back in the late, late 80s they made some filet mignon and veggies that wasn't quite ready but showed great promise. By '92 they honed their skills and produced a meal that finally blew everyone out of the water. Everything was cooked just right and they showed they could put the right amount of their specialty homemade spices in the middle of the meal, which became their signature dish. They even prepared elaborate side dishes to complement these meals which lead to some debate but were overall very thoughtful inclusions.
So as time passed the restaurant grew, mostly by name and kinda by reputation. When the new head chef came in he brought some well needed change to the kitchen and introduced them some exotic recipes and spices. The new chef and these recipes became a hit and instead of experimenting like they did back when they were first trying to find what worked they decided that this would suffice. This worked until the filet mignon started to become bland and to compensate the band decided to unleash their signature spices to make it work.
Soon after, the chefs realized that whenever they were backed into a corner they could just throw the spices on whatever meal they produced and, at worst, it could become passible, even if the meal didn't call for the spices. Even the side dishes, which they prepared with as much care as the main dishes, were coming in frozen and just getting tossed out after being unheated without any thought at all. Soon the original patrons decided they weren't really into to the new bastardizations of the old stuff and that the "new" stuff really wasn't fresh at all. What the five chefs would once produce as a world class filet is now pretty much the quality of a McDonalds hamburger: same ingredients, way less thought put into it.
So that is pretty much why us "bashers" are concerned about Dream Theater. We don't listen to the band to hate them as much as you want to think, we're just disappointed at where they are going and where they have been for the past few years. Stop proclaiming yourself as some kind of savior like the band actually gives a shit if anyone stands up for comments about their recent music.
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