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Ivory Tower - Beyond the Stars (2000.)

1. Silence

2. Secret In Me

3. Foreboding

4. Game of Life

5. Peeping Tom

6. Beyond the Stars

7. When Thoughts Are Running Wild

8. Flight Into the Self

9. Treehouse Theme

10. Treehouse

First I must say that I like this album very much. There are some very powerful songs (Secret In Me, Foreboding, Treehouse) that can make you produce much of positive energy. Actually, all songs are cool. But with one big deficiency...

Many are just ripoffs!

Yeah... Dream Thater - The Mirror. Very powerful song. But I think it shouldn't been repeated two times in almost the same way... and in a row (2nd & 3rd song)! They just could do the cover and call it "Secret In the Mirror". I am not saying that songs are 100% the same, just they look too much a like. And also 5th tune has too much of Therion atmosphere (another ripoff?).

Well, bright thing is that album closes one very powerful and (hope so) unique song: Treehouse (with intro Treehouse Theme). Song has strange/cool (imo) lyrics, so it increases the final rate...

rate: 6

(i like the album very much, but i have to be objective and say that there is too much ripping off)

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� Cedo Krsmanovic