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

[RAIN]

Yeah, we kinda know… /s

Really?  This is the first I've come across it.  I don't hang here all that often.

[Kotowboy]

Well, this is the same "fiasco" as with The Astonishing, where the tour dates announcement spoiled the album title. Coordination is not really a thing, uh?

The bigger fiasco with The Astonishing was that it existed in the first place.

    

[darkshade]

now they're getting longer again.

When Dream and Day Unite
Images and Words
Awake
Falling Into Infinity
Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From A Memory
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Train of Thought
Octavarium
Systematic Chaos
Black Clouds & Silver Linings
A Dramatic Turn of Events
Dream Theater
The Astonishing
Distance Over Time
A View From The Top Of The World

[Architeuthis]

 I sure hope the new cornholio variant doesn't put the kibosh on this tour..  sorry, had to say it.. 

[darkshade]

I sure hope the new cornholio variant doesn't put the kibosh on this tour..  sorry, had to say it.. 

You mean the CCP/Fauci/Gain of Function variant?

[Architeuthis]

Something like that.. 

[darkshade]

Something like that.. 

It's never a China or United States variant..

[noxon]

Yeah, we kinda know… /s

Really?  This is the first I've come across it.  I don't hang here all that often.

There’s pages discussing these details in this very thread. Plus that was all my Instagram account that shared them

[emtee]

Just checked out 2 Arch Echo songs. No vocals. Instrumental band?

Anyhoo, always an exciting time when new DT music is on the horizon.

[zappafrank2112]

Haha, just saw a suggestion that the deluxe edition of the album should include a ViewMaster

[Ben_Jamin]

Just checked out 2 Arch Echo songs. No vocals. Instrumental band?

Anyhoo, always an exciting time when new DT music is on the horizon.

Yup, and a great one with excellent melodies.

If it wasn't one of the songs you heard, I would recommend A Measure of A Life from their new EP. Their latest album "You Won't Believe What Happens Next!" is a great listen from front to back.

[goo-goo]

Just checked out 2 Arch Echo songs. No vocals. Instrumental band?

Anyhoo, always an exciting time when new DT music is on the horizon.

Yep. Totally instrumental band but all of the music is composed with minimal improvisation (or none to that matter). Check them out. I think you will like them.

[The Letter M]

https://www.facebook.com/61758269281/posts/10159608073944282/



"To stretch beyond our limits
To blaze a brand new trail
Bold enough to conquer
Brave enough to fail"

Lyrics to the epic title track? Any guesses on who wrote them? Also, I'll be surprised if this isn't the main album cover, or at least, a special edition cover. I like that they included a "15" on there as well.

-Marc.

[Kotowboy]

"To stretch beyond our limits
To blaze a brand new trail
Bold enough to conquer
Brave enough to fail"

They just Scream Myung lyrics.

[Trav86]

If that’s the cover, it’s like a cross between ADTOE and DT12. Im surprised they would make a cover so similar.

[bosk1]

Didn't pick up on the 15, but that's pretty cool.  I like the artwork a lot. 

[The Letter M]

"To stretch beyond our limits
To blaze a brand new trail
Bold enough to conquer
Brave enough to fail"

They just Scream Myung lyrics.

I was thinking that too. Or maybe another collaboration between JP and JM., like BAI, S2N, and FITL.

-Marc.

[Architeuthis]

Didn't pick up on the 15, but that's pretty cool.  I like the artwork a lot.

A huge step up from the d/t cover.  A have a feeling this new album is gonna be very melodic and positive. 

[noxon]

Look ar what you saw in our teasers… what was a recurring thing?

[lonestar]

Is Arch Echo the opener across the states?

[Raise the Drum]

If those are lyrics to the epic im thinking that "the alien" (or "aliens") is not so far away for the opening track title.
Maybe this album is inspired a little by the space race that is happening with humans wanting to go to mars and all that.

The aliens would be us and the lyrics (of the epic) talk about conquer, go beyond and new trails.

it would be an 8V-kinda concept album

being "A view from the top of the world" the last thing you see before entering new worlds

[Architeuthis]

"To stretch beyond our limits
To blaze a brand new trail
Bold enough to conquer
Brave enough to fail"

They just Scream Myung lyrics.

I was thinking that too. Or maybe another collaboration between JP and JM., like BAI, S2N, and FITL.

-Marc.

Reminds me of a section from illumination Theory. 

[SleeperAwake]

Yeah, they sound way more like something JP would write.

[Ben_Jamin]

I see we are finally coming back down to Earth in the Album Covers Meta story theme I can see happening with the album covers.



Since, Black Clouds and Silver Linings, each album cover has been telling some sort of story. As the door opens, we witness a circus clown on a unicycle riding a tightrope about to snap high above the clouds as a plane passes by. Apparently he gets by okay, as we "cross the bridges in the sky" "breaking all illusions" out into space. Peering through "The Looking Glass" we see Planet Earth, beautiful and illuminating. We come across a distant future dystopian world where "People just don't have the time for music anymore, and no one seems to care." This world is ruled by a Nefarious leader who rules over The Great Northern Empire with his Noise Machines. "The savior in the square" reunites the empire while his brother succumbs to fate, along with the Rulers son. The Great Northern Empire becomes Astonishing again. We now become "Untethered Angels falling into darkness" as we descend into a world ruled by machines, as the cover indicates Machine has now ruled over man, have the NOMACS conquered the humans in The Astonishing (?)...After receiving a signal, we have acquired a connection back home. Being "Out of Reach" and so far away "At Wit's End", we navigate circling back seeing Earth as a "Pale Blue Dot", all that "Ever is and ever was" for humans lies within that single dot.


IF this is the album cover. We now arrive back on Earth, with A View From The Top Of The World.


 
 

[Kotowboy]

I'm looking forward to getting all the officially official info on Wednesday. And maybe an album trailer / In The Studio making of Trailer etc etc...

 

[DarkLord_Lalinc]

Huge ADTOE vibes with that artwork. I dig it.

[emtee]

The artwork is pretty cool. I don't look at it and think, "metal" but that can be said of most DT artwork.

[Ben_Jamin]

I'm looking forward to getting all the officially official info on Wednesday. And maybe an album trailer / In The Studio making of Trailer etc etc...

 

I would be euphoric if they ended up releasing the single as well.

It's starting to make more sense that the tour leaks are happening. They may coincide with the announcement as the pre-sales for the tickets, at least the Mesa venue, are going on-sale that same day. So the venues have to post the events and make them open to handle to the load of traffic once the announcement is made and the tickets go on sale. According to the Mesa email, the general public tickets go on sale on Monday, August 2nd.

[evilasiojr]

The guy on the reddit page, who supposedly had access to the vinyl before hand, implied that the album is called "View From The Top of the World".

I think it's a possibility the song is called "A View From..." and the album is only "View From...", like in "The Astonishing" (album) and "Astonishing" (song).

[Kotowboy]

I definitely prefer the lighter album covers. Like Octavarium and A Dramatic Turn of Events.

Not a fan of the collage style ones like Awake / Black Clouds.

[JRuless]

Look ar what you saw in our teasers… what was a recurring thing?

The recurring thing I HEAR is the sound of birds. So maybe The Answer Lies Within?

[Ben_Jamin]

Look ar what you saw in our teasers… what was a recurring thing?

The pictures being viewed from a Viewfinder?

[RMGadelha]

Birbs

[hunnus2000]

That picture reminds me of Bubo from Jason and the Argonauts.

Who cares - bring it on!!! 

[Dream Team]

Serious question: have the guys ever sounded that amped before?