Dream Theater: The Astonishing (now with moment of betrayal!)

[CDrice]

NOMACtavarium

The Astonishing: When Images Awake Falling From Turbulence Of Octavarium Chaos And Dramatic Dream

Also maybe I'm the only one, but I'd take a new character art reveal over new songs title. I'd like to finally know what Arhys looks like.

[Kotowboy]

Someone figured out how to reveal the hidden characters in the old thread but it seems DT have fixed that problem.

[Sacul]

The tracklist is not that important when it comes to the concept. It's also one of the items that will be most easily leaked - since when people do actually get to hear it they'll also be able to leak the tracklist - so they want the tracklist out there in a controller manner rather than through rumors and leaks.

I think I may have seen a possible leak around, but dunno if it's legit or just someone trolling people. Will not share it here of course 

[RMGadelha]

It seems that the last update was like at 5:00 pm GMT. It is now 6:00 pm GMT. Hmmmm... Then again, I didn't check the times of all of the other updates. This is just my anxious worried fanboy speaking xD

[Sacul]

UPDATE























when? 

[RMGadelha]

UPDATE























when? 

Lol. Or as we say in my land: HUEHUEHUE.

[RoadTrain_of Thought]

Ha! You can't get me! I've been clicking the refresh button constantly for the last 2 hours...   

[Sacul]

Lol. Or as we say in my land: HUEHUEHUE.

kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[lucasembarbosa]

Lol. Or as we say in my land: HUEHUEHUE.

kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

RMGadelha e Sacul são BR? KKKKKKKK





F5-ing the Astonishing page 10 times per second...

[RMGadelha]

I keep imagining JP and JR checking this thread and seeing all the anxious people and going like: LOL 

Lol. Or as we say in my land: HUEHUEHUE.

kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

RMGadelha e Sacul são BR? KKKKKKKK

F5-ing the Astonishing page 10 times per second...

I'm from Rio and his profile says Argentina (which I don't mind. Football hooligans are stupid. Argentina is nice). I guess we should keep it in English though

[mike099]

If anyone here gets bored waiting, you can always check out the DT Hair thread. 

[Setlist Scotty]

Lol. Or as we say in my land: HUEHUEHUE.

kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

As Mrs. Setlist would say: RSRSRSRSRSRSRSRSRSRSRSRSRSRSRSRS!!!   

[Shadow Ninja 2.0]

Metropolis Part 2 Part 2: Shit Gets Real

[r3d86]

This gonna be very obvious but we will have to wait until tomorrow for an update, right?

[MirrorMask]

Not sure if I should say it out loud so I'll stay as vague as possible to not piss off anybody but... a coworker of mine is in the italian fanclub, or he was in the italian fanclub and he stayed in touch with the people there (I remember he told me he listened to Scenes from a Memory at a release party standing next to Petrucci). He showed me a screenshot of a comment that was forwarded to him. What comment? well, a comment about what we all long for, I'll say no more 

Now, PLEASE: Do not read this as a suggestion that something is or may be out there. Far from it. Whatever is being shared with selected people I'm pretty sure that is very guarded. But maybe the time where we'll get some endorsed and approved early reviews may be not terribly distant in the future.

Again, innocent trivia of info, "something is moving on all fronts" kind of thing, not wanting to piss anyone off!

[Kotowboy]

So basically before and after your post we still have the same info and will continue to have the same info until more is released as it would have been anyway.

[SystematicThought]

Pretty much

[RoeDent]

This gonna be very obvious but we will have to wait until tomorrow for an update, right?

Depends when your tomorrow is. I mean, it's already tomorrow in Australia. There's still 4h25m left until tomorrow here.

[Voices]

Lol. Or as we say in my land: HUEHUEHUE.

kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

RMGadelha e Sacul são BR? KKKKKKKK





F5-ing the Astonishing page 10 times per second...

HUEHUE BRBR 

[mikemangioy]

I have a fever
And the only prescription
IS MORE INFO
N O W

[TheOutlawXanadu]

Not sure if I should say it out loud so I'll stay as vague as possible to not piss off anybody but... a coworker of mine is in the italian fanclub, or he was in the italian fanclub and he stayed in touch with the people there (I remember he told me he listened to Scenes from a Memory at a release party standing next to Petrucci). He showed me a screenshot of a comment that was forwarded to him. What comment? well, a comment about what we all long for, I'll say no more 

Now, PLEASE: Do not read this as a suggestion that something is or may be out there. Far from it. Whatever is being shared with selected people I'm pretty sure that is very guarded. But maybe the time where we'll get some endorsed and approved early reviews may be not terribly distant in the future.

Again, innocent trivia of info, "something is moving on all fronts" kind of thing, not wanting to piss anyone off!

This is a fun bit of info. The anticipation rises...

[r3d86]

This gonna be very obvious but we will have to wait until tomorrow for an update, right?

Depends when your tomorrow is. I mean, it's already tomorrow in Australia. There's still 4h25m left until tomorrow here.

Yes, of course. Here in Uruguay are 04:45 PM, so it's left a lot until tomorrow

[Another_Won]

Not sure if I should say it out loud so I'll stay as vague as possible to not piss off anybody but... a coworker of mine is in the italian fanclub, or he was in the italian fanclub and he stayed in touch with the people there (I remember he told me he listened to Scenes from a Memory at a release party standing next to Petrucci). He showed me a screenshot of a comment that was forwarded to him. What comment? well, a comment about what we all long for, I'll say no more 

Now, PLEASE: Do not read this as a suggestion that something is or may be out there. Far from it. Whatever is being shared with selected people I'm pretty sure that is very guarded. But maybe the time where we'll get some endorsed and approved early reviews may be not terribly distant in the future.

Again, innocent trivia of info, "something is moving on all fronts" kind of thing, not wanting to piss anyone off!

But if reviews came out before all the reveals of characters etc, wouldn't that ruin revealing them?  I'm sure any review would be full of spoilers about the story, right?

[RaasMah]

Not sure if I should say it out loud so I'll stay as vague as possible to not piss off anybody but... a coworker of mine is in the italian fanclub, or he was in the italian fanclub and he stayed in touch with the people there (I remember he told me he listened to Scenes from a Memory at a release party standing next to Petrucci). He showed me a screenshot of a comment that was forwarded to him. What comment? well, a comment about what we all long for, I'll say no more 

Now, PLEASE: Do not read this as a suggestion that something is or may be out there. Far from it. Whatever is being shared with selected people I'm pretty sure that is very guarded. But maybe the time where we'll get some endorsed and approved early reviews may be not terribly distant in the future.

Again, innocent trivia of info, "something is moving on all fronts" kind of thing, not wanting to piss anyone off!

Metropolis 3 confirmed!




Seriously though you managed to get me hyped without even knowing what im hyped for

[MirrorMask]

But if reviews came out before all the reveals of characters etc, wouldn't that ruin revealing them?  I'm sure any review would be full of spoilers about the story, right?

Well, the more the release date approaches, the higher chances are that the various webzines and magazines will be invited to what I assume will be closely guarded listening sessions. Usually in those listening sessions you have a pen and a paper to write your impressions and you listen the album once, so those reviewers will focus on the music instead, the story will be complex and difficult to grasp at first.

Back in 1999 the internet was not so massive and I remember the famous "veil of secrecy" about SFAM, but I don't think anyone who heard the album beforehand only once came out and said "Omg there's this long heavy song which is a newspaper article but it's really all made up by the real assassin!"

[noxon]

Hmm, very curious, because I know that the italian fanclub doesn't have anything...

[MirrorMask]

Hmm, very curious, because I know that the italian fanclub doesn't have anything...

Honestly: It was one brief moment before work. Coworker / DT concert buddy calls me at his desk before the working day starts, and shows me his phone to let me see the screenshot of the brief comment about the new record. He did not go into a detailed explanation of who forwarded it to him, I mentioned his (either present or past) connection in the fanclub just to show that he did not made up the story but that he was being informed by second, third or fourth hand.

I sincerely don't even know nor I was told if someone is being granted to listen to the whole thing, or just selected tracks.

[Another_Won]

Sure.  So possibly people are getting advanced copies and preparing reviews for a specific date when they can publish them.  To me though, a proper review needs to have the artwork, lyrics etc. because those componants are part of the review.  Would someone publish a music-only review?

[noxon]

MirrorMask: would you mind sending this information on pm?

[Prog Snob]

NOMACtavariopolis!

[MirrorMask]

MirrorMask: would you mind sending this information on pm?

Done. Thanks for enligthening me in the reply, early reviews are bound to arrive sooner or later but I don't think they're just around the corner now. Back to waiting for the next update of the tracklist! 

[Prog Snob]

MirrorMask: would you mind sending this information on pm?

Done. Thanks for enligthening me in the reply, early reviews are bound to arrive sooner or later but I don't think they're just around the corner now. Back to waiting for the next update of the tracklist! 

If the early reviews were to arrive later, would they still be early reviews?

[noxon]

Jeez, people still haven't figured out I like to joke a bit around with the fact that I've done reviews in the past. They post stuff that I make up as jokes and consider that to be reality. No, guys, DT isn't doing a country folk bebop album...

[CDrice]

No, guys, DT isn't doing a country folk bebop album...

I am now highly disappointed. 

[Bertielee]

What if, after all, TA was DT's world music album? Nothing to back up that thought whatsoever!

B.Lee