Dream Theater

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

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.

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.

Love the artwork. Simple and appropriate for this record's intended statement.

zumacraig wrote: Love the artwork. Simple and appropriate for this record's intended statement.

Horizons wrote: zumacraig wrote: Love the artwork. Simple and appropriate for this record's intended statement. It doesn't justify laziness and a lack of artistic interest for me. Might as well put a giant 12 in the background.

But Black Sabbath already did "13", so DT wouldn't wanna look like copycats.

Guys, you have no appreciation for simpler cover artwork? IMO, the song titles seem proggier than usual.

What's weird is the lack of the DT logo.

Yes that's the artwork for this landmark album!!!!!111

Edited by Horizons - July 09 2013 at 16:53

darkshade wrote: Horizons wrote: zumacraig wrote: Love the artwork. Simple and appropriate for this record's intended statement. It doesn't justify laziness and a lack of artistic interest for me. Might as well put a giant 12 in the background.  But Black Sabbath already did "13", so DT wouldn't wanna look like copycats. Guys, you have no appreciation for simpler cover artwork? IMO, the song titles seem proggier than usual. What's weird is the lack of the DT logo.

Close To the Edge is actual artwork, at least the lettering is. This DT picture is a CGI of a planet and a weird DT logo......although I suppose the "x" and III = 13....but there are 2 X's in the logo = 23??

darkshade wrote: Catcher10 wrote: darkshade wrote: Horizons wrote: zumacraig wrote: Love the artwork. Simple and appropriate for this record's intended statement. It doesn't justify laziness and a lack of artistic interest for me. Might as well put a giant 12 in the background.  But Black Sabbath already did "13", so DT wouldn't wanna look like copycats. Guys, you have no appreciation for simpler cover artwork? IMO, the song titles seem proggier than usual. What's weird is the lack of the DT logo.   Copycats?? They copied Circus Maximus 1st Chapter album guy on the unicycle for ADTOE, almost to the pixel .   I also stared at the silver DT logo too......it does not look right Well, that's another story... I was talking about the lack of the DT logo, not the Majesty symbol, which yea does look weird.