Dream Theater self titled album discussion - [SPOILER FREE DISCUSSION ONLY]

[Joshin U]

Didn't we already have this huge spat over the "fact" that IT is only around 19 minutes...?

What if I told you the track is all quantum and stuff? That it can actually both be 22 minutes long and 19 minutes long?

Ala easter egg!  Thanks for the confirmation, noxon!   

[noxon]

Did you really need confirmation? It said easter egg right on the board in the video!

[Joshin U]

Did you really need confirmation? It said easter egg right on the board in the video!

A little reassurance goes a long way!

[The Letter M]

So the TRACK is 22 minutes, but the SONG is only 19... I wonder if the silence-gap is only a minute or so, as is usual, which gives us about a 2-minute easter egg!

-Marc.

[Dark Castle]

I remember how on Exodus's Exhibit A: The Atrocity Exhibitions, on the track 'Bedlam 1.2.3' it was listed as 18 minutes long, but the song was only about 8 or so minutes long; and around 2 minutes left, a banjo version of 'Bonded By Blood' came on 

Now seeing as the song is still 19 minutes long, I'll be thankful for only having to wait a minute or so for the easter egg, but I'd love it if they did something goofy of similar vein like Exodus did.

[GasparXR]

The stream now prevents me from listening to it. It says that they won't let it be played in my region.

[aprilethereal]

: Mastodon's Pendulous Skin is 22:15 long, and it features 15 minutes of silence before it goes into a hidden track. So maybe IT will be another short and accessible song

[Zydar]

The stream now prevents me from listening to it. It says that they won't let it be played in my region.

You're in Canada right? Have you tried this link:

https://puregrainaudio.com/audio/dream-theater-the-enemy-inside-song-stream-exclusive-canadian-premiere

[Shadow2222]

Did you really need confirmation? It said easter egg right on the board in the video!

A little reassurance goes a long way!

Could we finally have a studio version of the Canadian Rap? 

[The Boomr]

Did you really need confirmation? It said easter egg right on the board in the video!

A little reassurance goes a long way!

Could we finally have a studio version of the Canadian Rap? 

Oh my god yes

[Deve]

The stream now prevents me from listening to it. It says that they won't let it be played in my region.

You're in Canada right? Have you tried this link:

https://puregrainaudio.com/audio/dream-theater-the-enemy-inside-song-stream-exclusive-canadian-premiere

Zydar, you are my saviour. I've got a browser add-on that let's me see/listen to region locked material on sites, but one of my buddies desperately wanted to listen and couldn't. So I just wanted to say thanks a bunch 

[Voices]

The Enemy Inside just made me more anxious to listen the whole thing. Really, now I need snippets and stuff...

[Viking of the Sagas]

Where did people get the accurate lengths from?

[Lucien]

Where did people get the accurate lengths from?

They were posted on a venezuelan thread from someone with an advance copy. Noxon then confirmed them.

[RMGadelha]

The Enemy Inside just made me more anxious to listen the whole thing. Really, now I need snippets and stuff...

Yes. Snippets. Like... RIGHT NAO. 

[The Boomr]

The only problem with snippets is that they give me a VERY small section of each song to judge, and usually the rest of the song ends up being completely different. I remember people were judging the snippets from ADTOE all OVER the place about how they were crap this, crap that, yada yada. And then all those criticisms were thrown out the window, at least imo, when I heard the full songs. I was like "Oh! Yeah, that snippet was from a totally different mellow section of the song"

[jonnybaxy]

Has no-one considered that Easter Egg Could be a working title?

[The Boomr]

People did consider it, but I think the general consensus became that it must be something hidden in one of the songs (or at the end), because there were more titles on that whiteboard than there are titles on the final track listing

[jonnybaxy]

Would the 'easter egg' be a joking kind of thing? If so, I cant see DT doing that, they are rather serious with albums

[The Boomr]

Would the 'easter egg' be a joking kind of thing? If so, I cant see DT doing that, they are rather serious with albums

I could definitely see them doing that. They're very well known for throwing in bits of well-known melodies in the middle of live songs just for fun. Given, that's live, not in the studio. But even in studio they do fun easter egg type stuff...one of my favorites is a very strange (augmented, I believe, musically speaking) version of the jingle bells melody in Octavarium. Don't know the time marker off the top of my head but it's definitely there!

[fllnsprrw]

why did they change the shape of the majesty logo?!

[The Boomr]

why did they change the shape of the majesty logo?!

Hmm?? O.o Describe this change! I hadn't noticed

[fllnsprrw]

Maybe it's just an optical illusion, but it looks as though the legs got stretched out a little longer! Am I crazy?!

[The Boomr]

Maybe it's just an optical illusion, but it looks as though the legs got stretched out a little longer! Am I crazy?!

I'd say it's just an illusion due to the shininess of the new logo, most likely.

[jonnybaxy]

It has changed... There's a pic from Blob I believe on page 8 or something.. I'll find it.

[jonnybaxy]

Red one is old one, Silver is obviously new

[The Boomr]

Red one is old one, Silver is obviously new

Well, I stand humbly corrected. Thank you sir! Doesn't particularly bother me though. I suppose that could change....

[ask_the_lonely]

Dat single....overall fantastic. The riffage is excellent. Abit of The Dance Of Eternity feels at the end with the JR/JP duel haha. Labrie also sounds excellent here. The track invokes for me strong feelings of some Octavarium era stuff. Overall, I bloody love it. As usual, the single is usually the most accessible track...so I'm freaking out for the rest. This should hopefully well exceed ADTOE. Hoping Illumination Theory takes us to ultra epic heights.

[Kotowboy]

You know DT fans are picky when they get upset about a frickin' logo being *ever so slightly taller* than normal.



Some bands change their font on every album - like Green Day for instance. It doesn't bother me as long as it's not Comic Sans

[Zook]

Yeah but Green Day stole Iron Maiden's font so they suck even more than before.


MURICA

[CodyWanKenobi]

But if you look at the Enemy Inside artwork, they use the old logo. They didn't change the logo, they just used a different looking one for the DT12 cover. Relax guys.

[Implode]

Literally one person asked, "hey, is it just me or is the logo different?" No need to tell people to relax.

[CodyWanKenobi]

True, but I was referring to the plethora of complaints from a while ago too. But yes, I see now that it looks like I over reacted. My bad.

[BlobVanDam]

Literally one person asked, "hey, is it just me or is the logo different?" No need to tell people to relax.

DTF is well trained in pre-emptive crowd control.

[noxon]

Yeah but Green Day stole Iron Maiden's font so they suck even more than before.


MURICA

Who stole whose font again?