The Dream Theater show last night was awesome - the best of the three I've seen. After a harrowing trip in which I drove through O'Hare Airport on a Friday afternoon (I missed my exits, darn it), I got to Rosemont and throughly enjoyed the show from beginning to the end.
They had two bands open for them. The first, a hardcore band from Canada called Into Eternity was, to be blunt, awful. Here's there one video, "Extreme Emotional Distress". The band was not EQ'd, overamplified, and it was thirty minutes wasted.
The second band was another new band. Called Redemption, they showed much promise, although they, too, hadn't been sound checked well enough - the keyboards especially could have benefited from a bit of tweaking from the soundboard. On the other hand, their music was much more melodic, the singer actually sang, and they showed promise as they seemed to sound a bit like Symphony X, Enchant, and other prog metal bands, but carving their own little niche. That was a great thirty minutes, and makes me want to go get their CD. This is a video for their song "Bleed Me Dry".
Here's an older clip, with Kevin Moore on keyboards, of Dream Theater doing a song they played last night, "Surrounded" from Images and Words.
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