"Raw Dog" is an incredible, insane, and orgasmic 7 minutes instrumental journey. Perhaps when you listen to this song, you cannot recall any of Dream Theater's past work, referring to Dream Theater's whole new instrument sounds and music atmosphere performed in this song. Typically Dream Theater-ish, the song has awesome odd-time signature parts which when you hear it once you'll probably have to count like you do in your math class.
The atmosphere of this song offers you a chug-ish progressive metal, stab you right in your ears with explosive syncopations, double bass kicks, heavy riffs and fluid keyboard and guitar solos. Truthfully, it's a cruel audio work you can never resist!
There is an impressive change you can hear if you are a Dream Theater follower or progressive metal/rock lover, it's John Petrucci's well-engineered guitar sound. It's heavier than ever compared to any songs you can hear in Dream Theater past works. I didn't found any specific specification of what changes he made in his guitar sound, but I suspect he recorded the track with different position of mic-ing, and of course the amp equalizer. Overall, this song sounds more modern in sound.
I really admire the odd-time chug in the intro, which can really kicks you hard! What made the song more awesome are the syncopation in 3:22 that creates a 2-2-1-1 pattern, further more, the syncopation in 5:38 that goes 2-3-4-2-1! You can also hear high speed pentatonic solo from John Petrucci and Jordan Rudees' synthesizer.
This song worth a listen, buddy!
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