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

[TheBarstoolWarrior]

Well, at least it's a combo of songs 

I was concerned it might just be Overture alone

[LKap13]

Doesn't sound too promising

[TheBarstoolWarrior]

Actually I thought the teaser video looked sorta cool. Seems like a very dark and moody song from the 30 seconds I am able to see/hear.

[sfam2112]

I can kinda hear the Overture 1928 thing but the first thought I had was Queensryche. Not a criticism. I kinda like it. Looking forward to tomorrow.

[Ben_Jamin]

The teaser did it's job...

I'm excited to hear the vocals, lyrics, and the keyboard sounds.

[Kotowboy]

It's a bit short... 30 seconds ? And James is in the video why??

[Kotowboy]

I think it's pretty good. The riffs are really good, and the snare is iconic. I enjoy it way more than AJFA and their debut together, to be honest.

Me too. I don't outright hate And Justice For All. But the production is hard to ignore.

[Architeuthis]

It's a bit short... 30 seconds ? And James is in the video why??

Well he is part of Dream Theater, so there's that..   

[Kotowboy]

Hehe imagine if it was instrumental and Labrie was just in the video standing by a mic looking bored or on his phone playing Angry Birds.

[Architeuthis]

Ha, that might bring out the invisible monster in him.  🦖

[geeeemo]

I really like how it sounds and looks! So excited!!

[illusionist]

Has anyone noticed that in LTE3 there is a bonus track called View from the Mountaintop?
View from the Mountaintop......A view from the top of the World...

[LKap13]

Has anyone noticed that in LTE3 there is a bonus track called View from the Mountaintop?
View from the Mountaintop......A view from the top of the World...

Great catch

[hunnus2000]

For the new snippet, I didn't get Overture 1928 but I surely heard Metropolis Part Uno.

[Kotowboy]

Sound like Scenes From A Memory or pick up 19/16

1916 overture ?

[Architeuthis]

To me, it sounds like a blatantly obvious nod to overture 1928.   

[Kotowboy]

I wonder if you can have 19/28 as a time sig.

[LKap13]

I don't hear overture 1928 at all

[Enigmachine]

Neither did I in that snippet. I just see it as its own thing.

[Pax]

The snipped sounds ok. It's one of the shortest songs on the album, and the Alien is their best song since Illumination Theory, so I don't expect much from the new one

[porcacultor]

Lovely preview!! Really excited for the new track 

[wolfking]

Hmmm....teaser sounded a bit generic and lifeless.  Hoping I'm I'm jinxing myself here though.

[Kotowboy]

Youtube will do that as well. The compression is outrageous.

[BeatriceNB]

I wonder if you can have 19/28 as a time sig.

28th notes are septuplets, so 19/28 is just 19 septuplets. It's just counterintuitive to write them as 28th notes.

[Kotowboy]

Mangini would

" I write 4/4 as 19/28 - such that each septuplet is rpko pgjpobj \fpbajue`\br[jkg[bn fgsdj vpbfj *static noises*

[BeatriceNB]

Mangini would

" I write 4/4 as 19/28 - such that each septuplet is rpko pgjpobj \fpbajue`\br[jkg[bn fgsdj vpbfj *static noises*

Needs more polys and nested tuplets 

[Kotowboy]

I did a 3 year music degree and i've never heard of a nested tuplet.

Is there a cream for it ?

[Elite]

I did a 3 year music degree and i've never heard of a nested tuplet.

Is there a cream for it ?

A what?

A nested tuplet is nothing more than a tuplet within another one. You don't see them often and they're not a part of basic musical notation or standard theoretical discourse. The popularity of writing stuff with strange rhythms seems to have increased over the past 10-20 years or so.

[LKap13]

Lol

[LKap13]

Youtube will do that as well. The compression is outrageous.

Does Spotify do it too?

[bosk1]

To me, it sounds like a blatantly obvious nod to overture 1928.   

I wouldn't say "blatantly obvious," but as soon as it was first mentioned, my reaction was, "Oh, yeah, okay, I can definitely hear the similarity now that you mention it."  I hadn't pulled up the snippet, but I knew what part of the song it was referring to. 

[Kotowboy]

Youtube will do that as well. The compression is outrageous.

Does Spotify do it too?

It's nowhere near as bad. Spotify is always much crisper than YouTube.

[jonny108]

Youtube will do that as well. The compression is outrageous.

Does Spotify do it too?

It's nowhere near as bad. Spotify is always much crisper than YouTube.

Apple Music I find to be the best now as the vast majority of it is lossless.  A lot of new albums are specifically mastered for it too. TotW should be one of those.

[darkshade]

You guys describing the music on the new album as bits and pieces
of other Mangini-era DT "but with better production" just sounds like it's going to be DoT II, a rather bland and boring DT album imo.

[Ben_Jamin]

I always thought D/T has great energy. And this was confirmed with Room 137 and S2N. The Alien has that same energy but given an adrenaline boost.

One thing I noticed when listening to my Dream Theater playlist on Spotify is how quiet it is, I have About to Crash playing before and it's louder, I have to turn up The Alien when listening to it in my car.