Dream Theater

Horizons wrote: Laughable "artwork"  Glad they spent an hour on it.  Ninja'd hard - was too lazy to C&P the whole damn thing ;[

Meh. At least it's not insanely stupid like their previous one two three.

New stuff:






Dream Theater’s self-titled album – the band’s 12th studio release overall, and fourth with Roadrunner Records – will be released September 24, and now you can check out the cover art and see the track listing below!

Says guitarist John Petrucci about Dream Theater, “I see every new album as an opportunity to start over. To either build or improve upon a direction that has been evolving over time or to completely break new ground. This is the first self-titled album of our career and there is nothing I can think of that makes a statement of musical and creative identity stronger than that. We’ve fully explored all of the elements that make us unique, from the epic and intense to the atmospheric and cinematic. We’re incredibly excited about Dream Theater and can’t wait for everyone to hear it.”

The nine-track disc was recorded at Cove City Studio in Glen Cove, Long Island, with guitarist Petrucci producing and Richard Chycki engineering and mixing. It’s the band’s second album with drummer Mike Mangini, and the first one on which he was a part of the writing process from Day One.

In January, Petrucci said of Mangini’s work, “When people hear the drumming on this album, they’re gonna be pretty freaked out. On the last album, he did a great job, but he wasn’t there for the writing process and he was interpreting drum parts that I had programmed. Even though he used his creativity, of course, to change them up and do his thing, I feel like now he’s just Mike Mangini unleashed. It’s all him. It’s all his creativity, all his decisions and ideas and man, the guy’s an animal.”

The track listing for Dream Theater is as follows:

1. FALSE AWAKENING SUITE
i. Sleep Paralysis
ii. Night Terrors
iii. Lucid Dream

2. THE ENEMY INSIDE

3. THE LOOKING GLASS

4. ENIGMA MACHINE

5. THE BIGGER PICTURE

6. BEHIND THE VEIL

7. SURRENDER TO REASON

8. ALONG FOR THE RIDE

9. ILLUMINATION THEORY
i. Paradoxe de la Lumière Noire
ii. Live, Die, Kill
iii. The Embracing Circle
iv. The Pursuit of Truth
v. Surrender, Trust & Passion

Dream Theater will be available in a wide range of distinctive versions, including standard and special edition CDs, 180 gram double LP, and a limited edition boxed set. Pre-orders are scheduled to launch in July at the Roadrunner Records Webstore.

Dream Theater will be on tour in Europe in January and February 2014, and in North America in March 2014.

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I'm really excited now. That is their first tasteful album cover since Train of Thought, even if it is a bit boring. 75% sure that either the phrases "Dream Theater or "Theater of Dreams" will appear in the opening suite.

We should be receiving the tracklisting and cover artwork for the new album within the next week:

Portnoy's lyrics were always touch and go, so maybe that explains the imprvement on ADToE.

"Remember days of yesterdays"-Mike Portnoy

Dellinger wrote: zeqexes wrote: Dellinger wrote: Now, if you tell me you love the lyrics on "Nightmare to Remember" and "Count of Tuscany"... well, I won't know if you are really serious... Or basically anything off Systematic Chaos...the lyrics on that album are a mess. Yeah, actually most of the lyrics on "Black Clouds and Silver Linings" were rather lame.

But in ADToE they work better on the lyrics department. I'm sure the next album will be at that level.

Dellinger wrote: Now, if you tell me you love the lyrics on "Nightmare to Remember" and "Count of Tuscany"... well, I won't know if you are really serious...

where they are or what ever they do..Dream Theater is one of the greatest band ever :)

Ambient Hurricanes wrote: darkshade wrote: zumacraig wrote: Junges wrote: Kevin is a fag. Amazing. We can't say sh*t, f**k or crap on here, but fag is not a problem. Maybe because fag is another word for cigarette in England But here in America, I can say w**k, or w**ky, or w**ker, with no problem, but over there it's derogatory. But yea, Kevin Moore is an ass. Is there bad blood between KM and DT?  From what I know, he just left because he wasn't comfortable with DT's musical direction and wanted to focus on his own music.

zumacraig wrote: Junges wrote: Kevin is a fag. Amazing. We can't say sh*t, f**k or crap on here, but fag is not a problem.

Maybe because fag is another word for cigarette in England

But here in America, I can say w**k, or w**ky, or w**ker, with no problem, but over there it's derogatory.

But yea, Kevin Moore is an ass.

Junges wrote: Kevin is a fag.

Amazing. We can't say sh*t, f**k or crap on here, but fag is not a problem.