Parasomnia Timeline Thread

[Gonz]

[Lonk]

And MP video was posted:

https://www.instagram.com/dreamtheaterofficial/reel/DA8jc_KCRDa/

[Mladen]

It's on Dream Theater World facebook page, which I believe is run by Noxon. So here we go. 

Also, I enjoyed the song on the first spin. 

[Mr.Mister]

At this point it's the same comments on their album cover since at least the BCSL days. It's their signature style folks. It's not going to change.

[MirrorMask]

Safe to say it's a concept album?

More likely a themed album. There's not a story that starts, develops and ends (like SFAM) but all the songs have the unifying theme of dreams and nightmares.

[Zydar]

I actually quite like the album cover, no complaints from me. 

[The Letter M]

More album info here

https://www.loudersound.com/news/dream-theater-share-first-new-music-since-mike-portnoys-return-with-nine-minute-plus-night-terror

The album will be available as a limited edition deluxe box-set which includes the deluxe 2CD+Blu-ray Artbook (Incl. CD1: full album, CD2: instrumentals, Blu-ray: Dolby Atmos & 5.1 Surround Sound - mixed by Mark Gittins, High-Resolution Stereo Mixes, animated visualizers for each song created by Wayne Joyner, + 68-page booklet), gatefold 180g dark green 2LP (feat. alternative cover artwork), Majesty-logo dream catcher keyring, sleeping mask, Dream journal, 60x60cm poster & hand-numbered, foil-stamped certificate of authenticity and is limited to 3500 copies worldwide); as a limited edition deluxe 2CD+Blu-ray Artbook - (Incl. CD1: full album, CD2: instrumentals, Blu-ray: Dolby Atmos & 5.1 Surround Sound - mixed by Mark Gittins, High-Resolution Stereo Mixes, animated visualizers for each song created by Wayne Joyner, + 68-page booklet), a gatefold 180g 2LP + 12-page LP-booklet, a special edition CD Digipak and as a digital Album - (incl. Dolby Atmos - mixed by Mark Gittins).

-Marc.

[Max Kuehnau]

In the words of David Lee Roth: What a long and strange trip it's been. Thanks everyone for sticking around.  Job done. Enjoy basking in mediocrity again. Max out.

[Lonk]

Album February 7th!!!!!!!!

[Mr.Mister]

More likely a themed album. There's not a story that starts, develops and ends (like SFAM) but all the songs have the unifying theme of dreams and nightmares.

So... an album around the concept of dreams and nightmare? 

[TheOutlawXanadu]

I actually quite like the album cover, no complaints from me.

I love the idea of it. The execution is maybe not quite doing it for me for some reason.

[genome]

So... an album around the concept of dreams and nightmare? 

A... Dream Theater?

[Zydar]

[fadetoblackdude7]

Love everything so far!! It's about time we got a one-word title that's not overly poetic. Can't wait!

[Trav]

I doubt we're getting a single today. Probably info, but singles usually come out on Fridays

This aged well

[Xaves]

Finally new music. So hyped to listen to this!

[Pettor]

Honestly this sounds exactly what you would get if you took late DT (AVFTTOTW) but infused it with MP era details and sound. It makes so much sense when you hear it 😅

The song is good! Have to listen a couple of time but I am happy the structure and progressions are back to being more interesting and varied. Hopefully it's true for the full album as well. This was one of the main problems I had with the MM era. The chugga chugga JP that became the standard sound for the MM era is still there and I hope they do make some songs a bit more melodic and interesting in that regard.

Album art is not my favorite by any stretch. Felt sort of meh and I wish they could get a bit more creative with the style again. Using this template thing for the covers doesn't do much for me.

However I am super excited for the album. The song names are intriguing and really like getting 8 songs with longer length.

[Mr.Mister]

I'm happy they have a long track to close the album again. DT Shines in these and I cannot wait to hear what they've cooked.

[Kyo]

I find it funny how Portnoy was once criticized for "overplaying" but is now considered "non-technical".

These don't have much to do with each other. You can overplay without having a whole lot of technique and you can utilize some very advanced techniques without overplaying at all, depending on the song of course.

[MirrorMask]

I'm happy they have a long track to close the album again.

Yeah, been a long time since that happened

[XJDenton]

Locking this thread since its over 140 pages now and that makes admin2 sad. Since the title and track listings have now been officially announced I encourage people dicuss further at this thread:

https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php/topic,59133.0.html