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

[Red_Queen]

I consider The Best Of Times and The Count Of Tuscany both Top 15 DT songs.

To each his own, but I don't like them. Granted, there are things that are outstanding inside each song, but as a whole, they're not for me. And the choruses of both are not good, like, at all.

B.Lee

Note : excited as hell for the new album! I haven't listened to any of the singles released and you guys have my mouth water in expectation with your descriptions. Damn, 4 days to go still!

B.Lee you are my hero for not listening anything !!!
Trust me you gonna be satisfied 

[MirrorMask]

I'm team "I don't want to hear anything before" too. My only goal for this working week is endure it all so that Friday I can use my lunch break to buy the album and listen to it from start to finish without any musical spoiler at all! 

(Even though, if I really have to nitpick, I have to say that I heard seconds here and there from the occasional promo video with interviews, and the short snippets when they were recording the album. With The Astonishing it was a total embargo, I literally didn't hear in any kind of way or form a single note before the release)

[Rammstein]

I couldn't resist listening to UA and FITL, but resisted with Paralyzed.

Will there were seperate threads for each song upon release date? It is always so confusing to read one big thread with hundreds of new posts that go in different directions

[DP_Gumby]

I just got the shipping confirmation for my order today!

Have anyone else here received their confirmation too? Apart from those of you with the unfortunate delays.

On another note, I will restrain myself from listening to the album from any prematurely leaked sites in the meantime. 

[faizoff]

I finally had the opportunity to hear all 3 new songs on a killer system last night. HOLY CRAP!! For the first time
since MM joined, they managed to make his drums sound killer. They now share equal billing with all the other
instruments. The production is amazing. I'm really digging all 3 songs. For me, this mix is the best since 8V and on
par with their best sounding albums. I haven't felt this way about new DT songs for a LONG time.

On a side note, man oh man would I like to hear what ADToE would sound like with this mix.

These are my thoughts as well, except I haven't heard Paralyzed yet. I was very happy to hear how it sounded on youtube and really can't wait to hear the CD/Bluray versions. The other two tracks appear to be standard singles release and since I've only heard them once I'm sure they'll sound better in the context of the album rather on their own.

My Amazon art book order status still hasn't updated yet so fingers crossed it's still there and not cancelled. I guess lasercd might be my only hope for now.

[kiszol]

New review by Sputnik Music and again a very positive (and detailed!) one:

https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/78994/Dream-Theater-Distance-Over-Time/

So the link strangely doesn't work atm. They probably didn't release the review yet but I stumbled on it somehow.

Anyway they give the album 9,5/10

Best songs:
Barstool Warrior
At Wit's End
S2N

There was an interesting remark about Pale Blue Dot feels like an unfinished masterpiece.

[The Curious Orange]

Amazon.co.uk is giving a delivery date of Wednesday 26th with standard shipping. If I upgrade to expedited shipping, that slips to Tuesday 25th. WTF? At least DESPATCH the flipping thing on release day, even if you can't guarantee delivery then.

[erciccio]

Amazon.co.uk is giving a delivery date of Wednesday 26th with standard shipping. If I upgrade to expedited shipping, that slips to Tuesday 25th. WTF? At least DESPATCH the flipping thing on release day, even if you can't guarantee delivery then.

Amazon.it still confirms the 22th for the Boxset (2CD+book+DVD)

[jcmoorehead]

Amazon.co.uk is giving a delivery date of Wednesday 26th with standard shipping. If I upgrade to expedited shipping, that slips to Tuesday 25th. WTF? At least DESPATCH the flipping thing on release day, even if you can't guarantee delivery then.

I've got the Artbook edition pre-ordered on there and I'm seeing a delivery date of 26th with expedited shipping and a dispatch date of the 22nd

I do have a google play account so it's not like I won't be able to hear the album on release or anything but it is quite irritating.

[Bertielee]

I'm team "I don't want to hear anything before" too. My only goal for this working week is endure it all so that Friday I can use my lunch break to buy the album and listen to it from start to finish without any musical spoiler at all! 

(Even though, if I really have to nitpick, I have to say that I heard seconds here and there from the occasional promo video with interviews, and the short snippets when they were recording the album. With The Astonishing it was a total embargo, I literally didn't hear in any kind of way or form a single note before the release)

Now YOU are my hero!

[Bertielee]

I consider The Best Of Times and The Count Of Tuscany both Top 15 DT songs.

To each his own, but I don't like them. Granted, there are things that are outstanding inside each song, but as a whole, they're not for me. And the choruses of both are not good, like, at all.

B.Lee

Note : excited as hell for the new album! I haven't listened to any of the singles released and you guys have my mouth water in expectation with your descriptions. Damn, 4 days to go still!

B.Lee you are my hero for not listening anything !!!
Trust me you gonna be satisfied 

Thanks Red, but you know, I think I even forgot there was an album released, so it was easier... Oh, and I trust you, I know I'm gonna be satisfied!!!

B.Lee

[dedSurroun]

I hope there's a chorus as good as "IT'S RAAAAAININ'....IT'S RAAAAAININ'.....IT'S RAAAAAININ' DEEEP IN HEA-VENNNN"

[Hypnotherapist]

I just got the shipping confirmation for my order today!

Have anyone else here received their confirmation too? Apart from those of you with the unfortunate delays.

On another note, I will restrain myself from listening to the album from any prematurely leaked sites in the meantime. 

Ya!!I bought it on the Inside Out and received an email confirming the submission on 2/14/2018 (including details to follow the tracking) 

[gzarruk]

New interview with John Myung: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI-iisUISJY

[Max Kuehnau]

and what's more, we can hear him clearly on this album (or well, tracks 1-3, I doubt it will be different for the rest)

[Madman Shepherd]

New interview with John Myung: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI-iisUISJY

*Obligatory "I didn't know he could talk" joke*

[gzarruk]

New interview with John Myung: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI-iisUISJY

*Obligatory "I didn't know he could talk" joke*

Nowadays it's more like "whoa, that CGI looks really convincing, almost fooled me!"

[Herrick]

Will there be an official streaming of the album?

[gzarruk]

Will there be an official streaming of the album?

Yes, starting this friday

[Herrick]

Will there be an official streaming of the album?

Yes, starting this friday

Nice!

[devieira73]

Room 137: I'm not sure what to make of this one, honestly. It's definitely a different sound for DT. Very dark and almost psychadelic in places. For whatever reason, it's definitely not what I expected from MM, lyrically. I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean but wasn't sure what else to say. Probably my least favorite track on the album, though it does have some cool parts and it's by no means bad, just a personal taste thing probably.

I've read an interview with JLB on Roadiecrew's magazine (www.roadiecrew.com.br), where he explains that this song is about physicist Wolfgang Pauli and his obsession with the constant 1/137. And coincidentally, it was the number of hospital's room where he died. Interesting that JLB also said that Mangini had this idea for a lyric, but he kind of sent the lyrics to JP, JR and JLB to actually shape them into that song.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Pauli

"In 1958, Pauli was awarded the Max Planck medal. In that same year, he fell ill with pancreatic cancer. When his last assistant, Charles Enz, visited him at the Rotkreuz hospital in Zurich, Pauli asked him: "Did you see the room number?" It was number 137. Throughout his life, Pauli had been preoccupied with the question of why the fine structure constant, a dimensionless fundamental constant, has a value nearly equal to 1/137. Pauli died in that room on 15 December 1958.[14]"

[wasteland]

Damn, it, the Fine Structure constant! How could I let this slip past me? Basically a good chunk of reality, including the entirety of the visible and tangible world, hinge on the fact that the electromagnetic coupling constant (regulating the scale to which two charged particles interact) is 1/137. Change it to 1/1000 and we don't exist. Change it to 1 and the whole universe changes face radically.

There is no reason why the FSC (generally referred to as "alpha") has the value it has. Indeed, the value is not even that constant, but that's not a problem I should discuss here. There is however a different line of thought: any vastly different value of alpha produces a universe that doesn't have any observer within it. We, as human and observing agents, can exist only in a relatively thin range of values for alpha. So mind-boggling doubt on why nature should shape in a way that allows us to observe is upside-down: given that we exist, the universe must necessarily have the fundamental physics to allow our existence, however unlikely it would seem. This is also solved easily in the theory of multiverses: if an infinity of universes exist, each with random physical constants, only those with values that allow life will have observers inside wondering why they are so special. Nobody will exist in the others.


So yeah, 137 is a pretty important number!

[Adami]

Possible contender for nerdiest DT song ever?

[Hypnotherapist]

Some images from the digipack version:
https://www.nuclearblast.de/de/produkte/tontraeger/cd/cd-digi/dream-theater-distance-over-time.html

[devieira73]

Possible contender for nerdiest DT song ever?

I do think the topic is sooo Mike Mangini. JLB in that interview, before talk about this lyric, even said that "Mangini, who is obsessed with mathematics, to the point of look like a mathematician..."

[NoseofNicko]

Will the digipak be available in music stores in the US/Canada? It’s not on the site of the music store I go to in Canada and it’s not on Amazon.ca.

[gzarruk]

Possible contender for nerdiest DT song ever?

I do think the topic is sooo Mike Mangini. JLB in that interview, before talk about this lyric, even said that "Mangini, who is obsessed with mathematics, to the point of look like a mathematician..."

Well, he DID study rocket science before being a professional drummer

[RoeDent]

1. From what I've read, it seems like D/T is a continuation of the path they went on with DT12, namely of short, concise songs that just say what needs to be said and then they're done.

2. I watched back a couple of the recording videos they put up on Youtube of the drum tracking, and it looks like Mangini had his hi-hats(?) up high, as in the Untethered Angel video. To me (not a drummer), that looks like it would be deeply uncomfortable. But Mangini absolutely must know what he's doing. He's been drumming for decades.

3. I wonder if DT knew that Untethered Angel is the 137th song in their studio album discography?

[goo-goo]

Will the digipak be available in music stores in the US/Canada? It’s not on the site of the music store I go to in Canada and it’s not on Amazon.ca.

https://www.lasercd.com/cd/distance-over-time-digipak-preorder

[Architeuthis]

Possible contender for nerdiest DT song ever?

[pcs90]

I've read an interview with JLB on Roadiecrew's magazine (www.roadiecrew.com.br), where he explains that this song is about physicist Wolfgang Pauli and his obsession with the constant 1/137. And coincidentally, it was the number of hospital's room where he died. Interesting that JLB also said that Mangini had this idea for a lyric, but he kind of sent the lyrics to JP, JR and JLB to actually shape them into that song.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Pauli

"In 1958, Pauli was awarded the Max Planck medal. In that same year, he fell ill with pancreatic cancer. When his last assistant, Charles Enz, visited him at the Rotkreuz hospital in Zurich, Pauli asked him: "Did you see the room number?" It was number 137. Throughout his life, Pauli had been preoccupied with the question of why the fine structure constant, a dimensionless fundamental constant, has a value nearly equal to 1/137. Pauli died in that room on 15 December 1958.[14]"

Thanks! This definitely gives me a better understanding of what MM was going for. I didn't know the reference originally and was rather confused by the song when I heard it.

[devieira73]

Cool, I thought it could be helpfull. By the way, JLB also mentioned that the song was recorded at 137 bpm.

[Vandalism]

also is anyone familiar with the now cancelled series "Flash Forward"?

In it, all living beings black out at the same time due to a quantum experiment for exactly 2 minutes and 17 seconds! There was a plot thread linking it to the fine structure constant.

[MinistroRaven]

The Japan version of the album contains 9 +1 song and another CD of ONLY intrumental tracks

[pfillion]

New review

http://www.ghostcultmag.com/album-review-dream-theater-distance-over-time-insideout-music/