Sacrificed Sons (track)
by Dream Theater
Sacrificed Sons appears on the following album(s) by Dream Theater:
- Octavarium (track #7) (this album) (2005)
- Score (20th Anniversary World Tour) (track #12) (2006)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 06/12/2025 15:04 | AndyLish79 | 12,743 | 84/100 |
| ! | 05/13/2025 11:15 |  luigybetis | 13,181 | 89/100 |
| ! | 02/05/2025 12:26 |  doombringer | 11,837 | 75/100 |
| ! | 02/05/2025 00:20 | SethGunde | 1,550 | 76/100 |
| ! | 11/18/2024 17:50 | spinout | 37,382 | 83/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 3% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 83.0/100, a mean average of 82.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.4/100. The standard deviation for this track is 14.3.
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AAL2014 07/11/2022 00:49 | #287262
While this song is good enough, I guess, it’s pretty much always been my least favorite Octavarium track.
Sacrificed Sons is another one of their more politically edged, social commentary songs, this time in direct response to… Bin Laden…?… as well a recounting of the travesties of 9/11 some 3 1/2 years prior.
“Who would wish this on our people
And proclaim that his will be done
Scriptures they heed have mislead them
All praise their sacrificed sons”
That’s the chorus and for me it’s just a bit of a heavy handed attempt at saying something profound, even though I’m fully with the sentiment.
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