dream theater

Charles Dominici has forever been known in metal circles as Dream Theater's 'lost' vocalist, having appeared on their debut album 'When Dream And Day Unite' and then disappearing when that album failed to live up to commercial expectations. Petrucci and gang went back to the drawing board and drafted in Canadian James Labrie, who has fronted the prog metal leviathans ever since, and Dominici was seemingly consigned to history.

There has been much debate in the pages of All Out Guitar recently as to who are the hottest players in the world right now and who is the future of shred. Some of the names to pop up in these discussions have been Michael Romeo, Andy James, Guthrie Govan and older names such as Andy Timmons, Greg Howe, Steve Vai and of course Yngwie. Youtube is also a constant source of clips of the latest bedroom shredder or guitar show clinician.

I know it’s been a while since Outworld’s self-titled debut, but having listened to it a lot recently and baring in mind that a band of this calibre with such high critical praise are without a record deal, I thought that a review won’t do any harm.