Meh, Symphony X is too much pointless wankery for me.
I mean, yeah, they're good, but it's like the entire point of them making music is to show the world how insanely awesomely better than you they are.
Holy hell, I was listening to one of they're songs, and suddenly, mid riff, for no apparent reason, the bassist does this bitchin' two hand tapping thing. What? A bassist? Tapping? In my metal?
From the guitarists' insanely mindblowing fast sweeps, to the drummer's strange polyrythmic (is that a word?) beats that make drummer's ears bleed, to the bassists' entirely unneeded random sweeping breaks, it seems the entire point of the band is to stand up on a stage and scream "WHY YES, WE ARE BETTER MUSICIANS THAN YOU ARE OR WILL EVER BE, THANK YOU."
But then, I might be slightly bitter.
