DT15: A View From The Top Of The World (Timeline for DT15)

[Zook]

I think they already showed us the new album artwork, only that it's super small.

If you look closely at the very start of the video, there are three images on that viewmaster disc. The 3rd one seems to have the "Dream Theater" font on top, the shoes also appear there.

Hugh Syme strikes again

Was there any doubt?

[Cool Chris]

Kinda looks like the get the album MS Paint game.

Why has this thread not been started?!?!

[DreamerTV]

The video is really tricky, but I think it might be something about Dream Theater.

[Another_Won]

Paint the ball red in this picture and you have one of the images:

https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/6rvcp8/giant_swiss_ball_between_two_buildings_in_miami/

[MirrorMask]

The guys describing the album as "intense" and the norwegian landscape of the supposed cover art means only one thing:

DT goes black metal 

[noxon]

Look at google images for Kjeragbolten. There exists literally thousands of images that are very similar to that image.

[devieira73]

Well, at least it was funny how the cover's signature of Hugh Syme was 100% confirmed! And we saw just a super small version of it!

[MirrorMask]

Look at google images for Kjeragbolten. There exists literally thousands of images that are very similar to that image.

And at least in my search, the supposed cover art is literally the second result.

I hope this doesn't mean that Hugh Syme has gone beyond using stock images and now is getting paid just to google photos 

[gzarruk]

Look at google images for Kjeragbolten. There exists literally thousands of images that are very similar to that image.

And at least in my search, the supposed cover art is literally the second result.

I hope this doesn't mean that Hugh Syme has gone beyond using stock images and now is getting paid just to google photos 

At least he added that pair of shoes

[noxon]

Assumptions, assumptions. You know what happens when you ASSuME...

[Zook]

I can't wait to play find the watermark.

[Kotowboy]

So yeah as someone else said - copy and pasting two stock images together was too much like hard work - he literally googled a photo and sent the band an invoice. 

[emtee]

The guy balancing on a unicycle from ADToE needs to be on that boulder

Album title guess: Caught Between A Rock And A Hard Place

[Setlist Scotty]

Assumptions, assumptions. You know what happens when you ASSuME...

Isn't that the online DT fan way, though? 

Remember the fiasco when the track listing for ToT was first announced? MP was working with Neal Morse at the time and people took 1 + 1 and came up with 3. All of the sudden DT was becoming a Christian band because of MP working with Neal based strictly on the song titles. 

[Weymolith]

I can't wait to play find the watermark.

For the record, I'd like to point out that Zook said this first.. I was only thinking it.

[gzarruk]

I wonder if this album will mark the return of "water's edge"

[Enigmachine]

I like how people are assuming what Hugh did from a blurry image that we can't fully make out the details of yet. Yes, we can see that it's Kjeragbolten, but as of yet we do not know how much editing may have taken place to alter the image or which exact image it's even based on.

Hugh Syme strikes again

*snip*

A closer look would show that this isn't the same image.

So yeah as someone else said - copy and pasting two stock images together was too much like hard work - he literally googled a photo and sent the band an invoice. 

We certainly don't know this. Much like noxon said, we should be careful about making assumptions.

[Mladen]

Assumptions, assumptions. You know what happens when you ASSuME...

Isn't that the online DT fan way, though? 

Remember the fiasco when the track listing for ToT was first announced? MP was working with Neal Morse at the time and people took 1 + 1 and came up with 3. All of the sudden DT was becoming a Christian band because of MP working with Neal based strictly on the song titles. 

Wait, did this really happen? 

[MirrorMask]

I don't remember it being so literally, as in "OMG DT converted and became a christian band", but definitively the song titles gave concers about, if not a literal conversion, a very strong religious-oriented set of lyrics.

[Kotowboy]

The guy balancing on a unicycle from ADToE needs to be on that boulder

Album title guess: Caught Between A Rock And A Hard Place

Between A Place and Hard Rock 

[Trav86]

I don't remember it being so literally, as in "OMG DT converted and became a christian band", but definitively the song titles gave concers about, if not a literal conversion, a very strong religious-oriented set of lyrics.

Oh yeah, I remember the MP forum discussions about this.

[Kotowboy]

As long as the music had stayed the same I wouldn't even care. Arent Myung, Petrucci and Mangini all Christian / Catholic anyway ?

[Max Kuehnau]

As long as the music had stayed the same I wouldn't even care. Arent Myung, Petrucci and Mangini all Christian / Catholic anyway ?

IIRC, John and Mike are. Not sure about JM.

[Hanz Gruber]

I think they already showed us the new album artwork, only that it's super small.

If you look closely at the very start of the video, there are three images on that viewmaster disc. The 3rd one seems to have the "Dream Theater" font on top, the shoes also appear there.

Hugh Syme strikes again

Was there any doubt?

Is the name of the new album "About to Fall Into Infinity"?

[Hanz Gruber]

It's a remix of The Astonishing done by Portnoy, with tracks reduced in length and an improved storyline.

I am pretty sure if MP did any editing, the songs would not be any shorter.

MP would take over the vocals to some of the Astonishing characters and growl about sucking on a pipe.

[hunnus2000]

OK but the real question is - would ja?

I mean if you (in magic land) had a place where you lived and that was a shortcut to say get to school would you cut across that way?

[geeeemo]

It's too far down. The step to the rock. Nope...well maybe, after I watch others do it and it looks steady.

[hunnus2000]

It's too far down. The step to the rock. Nope...well maybe, after I watch others do it and it looks steady.

I would think that the wedged rock would be solid and if you look at the direction the kid is going, there looks to be an easy step up. Now going back looks to be a little more difficult.

But I agree, let someone else make the first mistake! 

[gzarruk]

It's too far down. The step to the rock. Nope...well maybe, after I watch others do it and it looks steady.

I would think that the wedged rock would be solid and if you look at the direction the kid is going, there looks to be an easy step up. Now going back looks to be a little more difficult.

But I agree, let someone else make the first mistake! 

The unicycle guy had it way harder on ADTOE

[noxon]

The rock has thousands of visitors per year, with no accidents this far. Might have something to do with the fact that the entrance to the rock itself is behind the ledge to the left.


https://www.aftenbladet.no/lokalt/i/vqoow/er-det-lurt-aa-sikre-kjeragbolten-med-kjetting

[Kotowboy]

Unicycle guy had it way harder on ADTOE

Nah it was PLANE Sailing

[Max Kuehnau]

Unicycle guy had it way harder on ADTOE

Nah it was PLANE Sailing

  thanks so much mate, seriously

[Setlist Scotty]

I don't remember it being so literally, as in "OMG DT converted and became a christian band", but definitively the song titles gave concers about, if not a literal conversion, a very strong religious-oriented set of lyrics.

Not everyone took it so literally, but there were a few that took the assumption to the extreme and were freaking out. In any case, it was ridiculous any way you cut it.

[MirrorMask]

I don't remember it being so literally, as in "OMG DT converted and became a christian band", but definitively the song titles gave concers about, if not a literal conversion, a very strong religious-oriented set of lyrics.

Not everyone took it so literally, but there were a few that took the assumption to the extreme and were freaking out. In any case, it was ridiculous any way you cut it.

Oh that's for sure, I was never really concerned about it.

[deggs37]

The guys describing the album as "intense" and the norwegian landscape of the supposed cover art means only one thing:

DT goes black metal 

You jest but I would absolutely LOVE to hear DT attempt the black metal sound for at least one song.