DREAM THEATER’s 9th!!!

Well,I've created it .Just put my fantasies in...

OK,it's going to be neo-prog,but dark and heavy one.Just imagine a mixture of I&W with TOOL/OPETH/PORCUPINE TREE stuff(have I just described RIVERSIDE's style? )...

It would be a concept story(return to a Formula,when a concept albums always win!!! ),based on Jester-related stuff(yes,as it usually happens in neo-prog ).Petrucci would learn to play Rothery-like solos,and Rudess' pianos would sound much darker this time(the whole sound-producing work would be close to Dark Matter/The Dreams of Men one...with some influences from TOOL/OPETH,yes,I've already told that ).

But the songs would be much more complex(just remeber MARILLION's 8-min epics:they had at least 3-4 different parts!!!),instead of wandering around few chords in Stream of Consciousness(don't get me wrong:I like it,but it's quite long )!

I even give you a tracklist and some comments:


DREAM THEATER "CURTAIN CALL" 200?


1.The Breakthrough 10.16
(8th & 9th parts of Portnoy's trip;doesn't relate to album's concept,just starting track)

2.Deep inside the Night 4.38 (instrumental) (a dark and moody PT-like track)

3.Strings 13.52 (a first main epic here,related with puppet's theme - puppet on a string etc )

4.Pieces of my Heart 5.21 (a touching love-ballad,very Neo-prog one!!!)

5.Into the Cradle 3.44 (an acoustical FOLKISH track with violin and flute(JT-like)!!!Yes,a bit experimental for usual DT,but I need it here!!!)

6.Sleepless 11.05 (another epic,very dark and metal this time)

7.Winds 7.33 (a nervous track...dark and complex,unusually stuck inside the Neo-Prog concept album ...)

8.Alone on the Hill 3.27 (a pre-coda track,related to 5th one)

9.Reflection in the Mirror 15.19 (yeah!!!A main stuff here,related to THE MIRROR's theme lyrically and a vintage heavy Neo musically!!!Great ballad coda )



Well...share your thoughts


Edited by Prog-jester

mmmm...
The Eight Wonder - VIII introspection. (lyrics Portnoy, music DT).
55 minutes.
Single track album.

I hope they don't make it to a 9th album.

from the time Ruddess joined, they wrote (that's purely IMHO) 2 wonderful albums (Metropolis 2 and 6 Degrees) and 2 not-so-wonderful albums (Train and Ocatavarium).

I suggest them to hold to a pattern and write 2 complex heavy and wonderful albums. 9th on 2 CDs, and 10th on 4CDs, and maybe 5th bonus disc with single 75-minute instrumental tracks called Dance of Eternity part 2, or something...

Hey, when I was 18, I was writing "fantasy albums" all the time, I even had my preferred fantasy bands ("Hyponotic Horizon", "Operant"), and I was doing the LP sleeves

It would be nice to open a section of "unreal prog" in this website

aprusso wrote: Hey, when I was 18, I was writing "fantasy albums" all the time, I even had my preferred fantasy bands ("Hyponotic Horizon", "Operant"), and I was doing the LP sleeves It would be nice to open a section of "unreal prog" in this website

I still do!

Thats a pretty cool concept you got there. I don't know what to expect from them, I like Train and Octa, I think this is where they'll be going, heavy, progressive and melodic. It would be amazing if they did another concpet album, its time for one. Now you've mentioned it Octa does have a coldplay and muse sound to it. Maybe it'll have an Opeth, Devin Townsend Pocupine tree influence. I'd like that... Alot.

Band should stick to music they actually like (this is general idea - to play music you like, ain't it?) and cut off this "let's please our fans" bullsh*t.

Prog-jester wrote: BiGi wrote: aprusso wrote: Hey, when I was 18, I was writing "fantasy albums" all the time, I even had my preferred fantasy bands ("Hyponotic Horizon", "Operant"), and I was doing the LP sleeves It would be nice to open a section of "unreal prog" in this website I still do! Me too!!! During the boring lectures in my University... Some fav imaginary bands: FIDELIO(a GENESIS clone ),SHADOWMIRROR and MAGIC ROUNDABOUT(neo-prog),SHAMEFUL COWARD(weird and dark stuff!a mixture of GG and KC with Post-Rock influences...moody violins,you know...) TONS of paper spoiled on imaginary discographies,tracklistings and timing...the next step would be a reviews writing I guess .Am I insane?

And all these years since I did this I thought I was lonely and sad!

Prog-jester wrote: We should exchange our IMAGINARY BANDS' catalogues!!!

Wow...there's a whole level of geekdom out there that I never knew existed.  Of course, I'm not going to admit to all of the crazy things I did to pass the time in my younger years.