New Album “Distance Over Time’, First Set of 2019 Tour Dates announced!

[nikatapi]

Here is my interview with James and John : enjoy
The French promoter told us to hold all the reviews and interviews until Feb 1st, so be prepared, everyone's gonna release everything
https://youtu.be/6qgzew42vps

Cool, thanks for posting!

[IDontNotDoThings]

Interesting how JP says he wrote four tracks & co-wrote two with JM. That means FITL was co-written by Petrucci.

[RoeDent]

It's February! Release month! Just three weeks left to wait until the glorious 22nd!

[illusionist]

Here is my interview with James and John : enjoy
The French promoter told us to hold all the reviews and interviews until Feb 1st, so be prepared, everyone's gonna release everything
https://youtu.be/6qgzew42vps

Great interview,because
1.It was not boring and repeating the same things again and again
2.We learned about the cover artwork
3.We learned the working title for the album
4.We learned what S2N is all about

Love it when i learn a little bit more about DT and their albums!
Thanks!

[the keyboard wizard]

Great interview,because
1.It was not boring and repeating the same things again and again
2.We learned about the cover artwork
3.We learned the working title for the album
4.We learned what S2N is all about

Love it when i learn a little bit more about DT and their albums!
Thanks!

Thanks a lot: when I interview the band for the fan club, I know that the fans will read so I don't want to ask the same questions but specific questions that I've never read before. As I had the main lyricists of the band, I thought it would be great to focus on the lyrics.

[DreamerTV]

https://youtu.be/X_R1Idf0n-U

Here's another one, another French one but with James only.

[gzarruk]

Both are great interviews! Thanks for posting them.

[mikeyd23]

Here is my interview with James and John : enjoy
The French promoter told us to hold all the reviews and interviews until Feb 1st, so be prepared, everyone's gonna release everything
https://youtu.be/6qgzew42vps

Good interview, it was really nice to hear the guys talk a little more in-depth about lyric writing. It's interesting that James' favorite lyricist is the guy from Switchfoot.

[Fritzinger]

If we talk about the set list of the upcoming tour, could we do so in a new thread? I would love to know nothing about the set list before the concert.

Can't wait to hear/read the new interviews when I come home tonight! Thanks for posting

[KevShmev]

It's my life mission and creed to go to ANY concert without spoilers on the setlist.

Should have gone to concerts before the 00's!

I don't think I started sneaking a peak at set lists online until 2000/2001 or so.

[MirrorMask]

It's my life mission and creed to go to ANY concert without spoilers on the setlist.

Should have gone to concerts before the 00's!

It's not THAT hard, even though with superstar bands such as Iron Maiden it's quite difficult.

Even so, to make an example, I still haven't the slightest clue about what Metallica is playing currently, and I intend to keep that up until I'll see them in early May. With Iron Maiden I remember I had to unfollow their Instagram page but aside from that, unless friends don't post videos on FB and you avoid of course the official forums, it's relatively easy to not know a setlist.

With DT themselves I managed to fully avoid info on the last tour and I didn't even have to stop posting here, I just avoided the tour section.

[KevShmev]

It's not THAT hard, even though with superstar bands such as Iron Maiden it's quite difficult.

Even so, to make an example, I still haven't the slightest clue about what Metallica is playing currently, and I intend to keep that up until I'll see them in early May. With Iron Maiden I remember I had to unfollow their Instagram page but aside from that, unless friends don't post videos on FB and you avoid of course the official forums, it's relatively easy to not know a setlist.

With DT themselves I managed to fully avoid info on the last tour and I didn't even have to stop posting here, I just avoided the tour section.

Props to you. I simply don't have the willpower to hold out and not look.  Now, if the show I am going to is like the 2nd or 3rd on a tour, it is possible, but for a month or even weeks?  No freaking way.

[fadetoblackdude7]

What really does suck though (and I've had this happen) is when you make it all the way to the show spoiler-free, and then people around you ruin the setlist before the band comes out.

[Mladen]

What really does suck though (and I've had this happen) is when you make it all the way to the show spoiler-free, and then people around you ruin the setlist before the band comes out.

This is what I'm usually afraid of, given that people tend to chat about what they saw online. At a couple of concerts, a person next to me even checked setlist.fm in order to know what will follow. In such case, you must try not to look and hopefully avoid accidentally seeing a part of the set list. 

[MirrorMask]

What really does suck though (and I've had this happen) is when you make it all the way to the show spoiler-free, and then people around you ruin the setlist before the band comes out.

Oh yeah, I feel you!

Avoiding official band pages... check
Avoiding YouTube videos... check
Avoiding interviews and carefully dodging internet pages discussing the shows... check

You finally go to the show and the people in front of you go "Can't wait to finally hear ULTRA RARE SURPRISE SONG" and you go FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[fadetoblackdude7]

What really does suck though (and I've had this happen) is when you make it all the way to the show spoiler-free, and then people around you ruin the setlist before the band comes out.

Oh yeah, I feel you!

Avoiding official band pages... check
Avoiding YouTube videos... check
Avoiding interviews and carefully dodging internet pages discussing the shows... check

You finally go to the show and the people in front of you go "Can't wait to finally hear ULTRA RARE SURPRISE SONG" and you go FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Ya, I guess the best you can do is politely tell them to shut up if you can catch them quickly enough 😂

[pg1067]

I'm going to the third show on the tour, so I'll only have to restrain myself for two days.  We'll see if I can do it.....

[Lonk]

I had times I tell people to please not talk about the set list. My last show was Coheed and Cambria and I was towards the front. People put out their phones and took pictures of the set list taped to the stage and I told them please don't spoil the show for me. Some of them were nice others didn't care

[KevShmev]

I can't fault fans who talk about how they can't wait to hear a song.  If that is what gets them excited about the show and they want to verbalize it, more power to 'em.  Going out of your way to spoil it for people is another story, but if you happen to hear someone talking about a song that is going to get played, that is just the way it goes.

[Lethean]

It's not THAT hard, even though with superstar bands such as Iron Maiden it's quite difficult.

Even so, to make an example, I still haven't the slightest clue about what Metallica is playing currently, and I intend to keep that up until I'll see them in early May. With Iron Maiden I remember I had to unfollow their Instagram page but aside from that, unless friends don't post videos on FB and you avoid of course the official forums, it's relatively easy to not know a setlist.

With DT themselves I managed to fully avoid info on the last tour and I didn't even have to stop posting here, I just avoided the tour section.

I tried that to that but someone spoiled Breaking All Illusions a thread in this section, not the tour section; the thread title didn't have anything to do with the current tour so I thought I'd be safe.  Once this coming tour starts I'll stick to the general music section until I see the show for myself.

I can't fault fans who talk about how they can't wait to hear a song.  If that is what gets them excited about the show and they want to verbalize it, more power to 'em.  Going out of your way to spoil it for people is another story, but if you happen to hear someone talking about a song that is going to get played, that is just the way it goes.

I sort of agree with this, but I think people who want to talk about the setlist at a show should at least keep their voices down.  There have been enough times where someone asks for the setlist not to be spoiled that we should all try to accommodate them.  And in turn those who don't want to be spoiled should do what they can to avoid it.  I've had people say "please don't tell me what they're playing" (even when I had no intention of doing so), but that's fine because you never know if someone might be about to spoil a song or two.

[jonny108]

Tons of reviews from the various Dream Theater World fan clubs are up - https://dreamtheater.club/blog/2019/02/01/dream-theater-distance-over-time-the-fan-club-reviews/

[Dedalus]

Tons of reviews from the various Dream Theater World fan clubs are up - https://dreamtheater.club/blog/2019/02/01/dream-theater-distance-over-time-the-fan-club-reviews/

[rab7]

I'm now really excited about this "Beatles section" in Room 137.

[DP_Gumby]

Tons of reviews from the various Dream Theater World fan clubs are up - https://dreamtheater.club/blog/2019/02/01/dream-theater-distance-over-time-the-fan-club-reviews/

Oh man, I might get a progressive metal overdose in 22-23 days time. First (Hopefully, if the postal service does their job effectively) d/t, which I'm probably going to listen to ALOT. And secondly, in between every playthrough I have to find time to attend the Haken show on the 23rd also. 

[Dream Team]

Wow, some of the new tunes seem to be unanimously liked. Great news!

[mikeyd23]

Cool reads! Lots of good information in those reviews.

[Dedalus]

I'm now really excited about this "Beatles section" in Room 137.

Me too. 

[Logain Ablar]

Interesting stuff. Damien's review came across as a little bit muted, but the others seemed positive.

Can't wait to hear it for myself!

[Dedalus]

Interesting stuff. Damien's review came across as a little bit muted, but the others seemed positive.

Can't wait to hear it for myself!

His review had served to bring the hype down a little bit. 

I'm very curious to hear Barstool Warrior, Room 137 and S2N.

[erwinrafael]

My birthday wish is that my iTunes would miraculously make my D/T preorder available on my birthday on the 18th. These advance reviews are killing me!

[Setlist Scotty]

I did this for the probably final Rush tour and loved the surprise songs in the set list.

The thing that made it a little easier on that Rush tour was the fact that they varied the setlist up a bit from show to show. Nothing as drastic as what DT did from 2002 to 2006, but still it was nice not to know exactly what the next song was gonna be, despite knowing all the songs that had been played at previous shows. Here's hoping DT will once again apply the "what would Rush do?" mentality.   

Interesting how JP says he wrote four tracks & co-wrote two with JM. That means FITL was co-written by Petrucci.

I'd imagine it's probably in the same way that all the songs with JM's lyrics were co-written (altho not credited as such): JM submits the lyrics in poem form, and then someone else (apparently only JP, post-MP) helps reformat them into proper song form.

[erciccio]

Tons of reviews from the various Dream Theater World fan clubs are up - https://dreamtheater.club/blog/2019/02/01/dream-theater-distance-over-time-the-fan-club-reviews/

Very interesting reviews!
The nice thing is that every listener seems to like different songs/ sections...

The french guy didn't like the album...also the  the Italian review is a bit "defensive" vs potential critics, but we are used to that...
For some strange reason the Italian DT web community has become (with few exceptions) a den of crybabys..

All other reviews are pretty positive

[Pax]

an anti-Astonishing album. I think that the band heard the dissatisfied fans and tried to do the opposite: shorter songs

dafuq xd
Btw, the thing that I (and many other fans whose opinions I've heard) disliked the most about Astonishing is indeed the shortness of songs

Pale Blue Dot is just a pile of riffs without any structure, a bit like Enigma Machine

This is precisely why I dislike Enigma Machine. The only song I'm looking forward to now is At Wit's End

Also, reviewers keep being happy about Rudess not using his crazy wizard sounds. How the hell is that a good thing?!

[nikatapi]

Pale Blue Dot is just a pile of riffs without any structure, a bit like Enigma Machine

This is precisely why I dislike Enigma Machine. The only song I'm looking forward to now is At Wit's End

Also, reviewers keep being happy about Rudess not using his crazy wizard sounds. How the hell is that a good thing?!

To be honest it takes many listens to start grasping Pale Blue Dot. I also don't believe it's one of the strongest songs on the album, but it is indeed quite different in terms of atmosphere.
Rest assured, there will be more songs to love apart from At Wit's End, which is indeed fantastic. I can't imagine how someone who likes I&W and Six Degrees won't be able to love Barstool Warrior.

[Victor Alexandrov]

You're such a tease.