Dream Theater "Systematic Chaos" details - Progressive Rock Music Forum

thanks for this info

The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us.

^ where's this tracklist from anyway? The DT homepage doesn't contain any news entries about the new album ...

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The titles sounds like a Megadeth album

Psalm 96
1 Sing to the LORD a new song;
sing to the LORD, all the earth.

CrazyDiamond wrote:

This is the tracklist of Dream Theater's Systematic Chaos. I think the long suite has been divided into two pieces..... it reminds me the way "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" was made

01. In The Presence of Enemies Pt.1
02. Forsaken
03. Constant Motion
04. The Dark Eternal Night
05. Repentance
06. Prophets of War
07. The Ministry of Lost Souls
08. In The Presence of Enemies Pt.2

Cool !!!!!

The news are coming so fast!! Also, from Roadrunner's homepage:

Said drummer Mike Portnoy, "Hey gang. Well, we just mastered the album today, so it is now officially finished and will be in the hands of Roadrunner Records tomorrow!!"

Produced by Portnoy and guitarist John Petrucci, Systematic Chaos is Dream Theater's ninth studio album and Roadrunner debut, and will be out this summer - stay tuned for more DT news!

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Barla wrote:

Baza wrote:

I'don't believe that these old geezers (the youngest of them will turn 40 this year) can make a masterpiece.

But it can still be a good album.

Rudess looks like (a band of my country) Bersuit Bergarabat's singer, 'el pelado' Cordera!! jajajajaja

LOL

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i have a feeling the music is going to be avante-guard

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hmmm!

sounds very metal to me. Not necessarily a bad thing but things look even darker than TOT judging from the titles. But one cannot judge songs on their titles so I'll just wait for this one to come out!

I wonder which one of these songs is the unending continuation of MP's AA series....?

Once a man like the Sea I raged, once a woman like the Earth I gave...but there is in fact more earth than sea...

^ Heh, yeah! LOL

But as long as it's better than Octavarium, I don't care

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Sounds dark.

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stonebeard wrote:

April_Ethereal wrote:

I wonder which one of these songs is the unending continuation of MP's AA series....?

If there is one--and I don't care if there is as long as it's a good song unlike The Glass Prison, IMO-- I'd guess Forsaken or Repentence.

Almost certainly it's Repentance, see the last part of this post to see why. The AA songs generally cover either 2 or 3 of the 12 steps, in order, if I remember correctly.

For example, The Root of All Evil covered steps 6 and 7, "Ready" and "Remove" (see the Octavarium booklet).

So, "Repentence" will probably cover steps 8, 9, and possibly 10. Maybe more if it's the long epic (do we know which is the epic yet?)

Here are the steps to see what the lyrics will probably address, assuming there is an AA song on this album (I forget if that's been confirmed or not):

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.