I just rediscovered Hell's Kitchen

[Sigz]

Meh

Your soul is going to burn in the deepest pits of hell.

this.

[durga2112]

Hands down, my favourite Dream Theater instrumental. The whole song is amazing, but once I get to about 2:17 I nearly always stop what I'm doing and start air guitaring at that point.    I will be forever grateful that this song got separated from "Burning My Soul" for the final album release - BMS works better as a short, punchy, heavy track, and HK was elevated to another level entirely with its additional couple of minutes of music (that unison section!  ). I think it is very fitting that this was the piece that chosen to close "Instrumedley".

Also, I was unbelievably delighted when I listened to my new Falling Into Infinity vinyl and discovered that this song is completely separated from both BMS and "Lines in the Sand"! Don't get me wrong, I love the way the three songs work as a sort-of-suite on the CD, but hearing a bit of extra audio on the vinyl after being so familiar with these songs was a really fun experience.

[HOF]

Yep, my favorite DT instrumental too. So a great mood piece, and one of JP's most emotional solos. Love this track.

[hefdaddy42]

Holy necrothread, Batman!

[durga2112]

Holy necrothread, Batman!

 

I hope it's not a problem resurrecting really old threads like this. I use the index of song threads whenever I want to comment on a specific song - I think this is the first one I've come across that's old enough to get a beginner's driver's license in some places. 

[cramx3]

Just looked it up to confirm my thought, I have a video of the last live performance of this song.  They did a pretty cool intro for it as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c_aBELUj4w

Definitely a cool instrumental song, always loved the ending with the bells.

[Samsara]

I haven't been listening to DT regularly for a while, but something possessed me to put on Hell's Kitchen, a song I probably haven't listened to in at least a year. Jesus christ what an amazing instrumental piece; I think it might actually be my favorite DT instrumental, overtaking Erotomania.

APPRECIATE IT NAO

Hell's Kitchen is my favorite DT instrumental. And I'm very, very glad the decision was made (by whoever made it) to remove it from the original version of Burning My Soul.

[Glasser]

Love that song. Honestly I love the full album. Just one ballad too many imo but I can deal with that.

[Ben_Jamin]

Just looked it up to confirm my thought, I have a video of the last live performance of this song.  They did a pretty cool intro for it as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c_aBELUj4w

Definitely a cool instrumental song, always loved the ending with the bells.

Yup. That was one of the highlights of that show for me.