Dream Theater - New Album Cover And Tracklist Unveiled
The suspense is over, Dream Theater fans. The progressive metal group has finally revealed the images and words for their self-titled upcoming new album. The cover art and tracklist are now available below for you to enjoy and speculate about. And so it begins. Now all we have to do is wait for the new music to arrive. The official release date of the album is September 24th on Roadrunner.
The nine-track disc was recorded at Cove City Studio in Glen Cove, Long Island, with guitarist Petrucci producing and Richard Chycki engineering and mixing.
In January, Petrucci said of Mangini's work: "When people hear the drumming on this album, they're gonna be pretty freaked out. On the last album, he did a great job, but he wasn't there for the writing process and he was interpreting drum parts that I had programmed. Even though he used his creativity, of course, to change them up and do his thing, I feel like now he's just Mike Mangini unleashed. It's all him. It's all his creativity, all his decisions and ideas and man, the guy's an animal."
The tracklist for Dream Theater:
01. False Awakening Suite
i. Sleep Paralysis
ii. Night Terrors
iii. Lucid Dream
02. The Enemy Inside
03. The Looking Glass
04. Enigma Machine
05. The Bigger Picture
06. Behind The Veil
07. Surrender To Reason
08. Along For The Ride
09. Illumination Theory
i. Paradoxe de la Lumière Noire
ii. Live, Die, Kill
iii. The Embracing Circle
iv. The Pursuit Of Truth
v. Surrender, Trust & Passion
The nine-track disc was recorded at Cove City Studio in Glen Cove, Long Island, with guitarist Petrucci producing and Richard Chycki engineering and mixing.
In January, Petrucci said of Mangini's work: "When people hear the drumming on this album, they're gonna be pretty freaked out. On the last album, he did a great job, but he wasn't there for the writing process and he was interpreting drum parts that I had programmed. Even though he used his creativity, of course, to change them up and do his thing, I feel like now he's just Mike Mangini unleashed. It's all him. It's all his creativity, all his decisions and ideas and man, the guy's an animal."
The tracklist for Dream Theater:
01. False Awakening Suite
i. Sleep Paralysis
ii. Night Terrors
iii. Lucid Dream
02. The Enemy Inside
03. The Looking Glass
04. Enigma Machine
05. The Bigger Picture
06. Behind The Veil
07. Surrender To Reason
08. Along For The Ride
09. Illumination Theory
i. Paradoxe de la Lumière Noire
ii. Live, Die, Kill
iii. The Embracing Circle
iv. The Pursuit Of Truth
v. Surrender, Trust & Passion
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| ?apleee Mouthcrab Posts: 260 From: USA  |
The cover is decent, but not spectacular. I have hope for this album, and especially interested in hearing the False Awakening Suite.
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| Pokermask Posts: 16 From: Sweden  |
The album cover reminds me of The Dark Side of the Moon.... meh. 
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| Doge of Venice Posts: 432 From: UK  |
Written by Pokermask on 09.07.2013 at 19:49 Because of the... moon? I don't see the resemblance.
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| Ellrohir Heaven Knight Posts: 8662 From: Czech Republic  |
Whats the idea of the cover? that it has no idea? 
---- My rest seems now calm and deep Finally I got my dead man sleep 
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| Unhealer Eclecticist Posts: 2311 From: Argentina  |
Quote: Sooooooo progressive  I hope Mangini's input makes this album more interesting than their recent albums.
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| BloodTears ANA-thema Posts: 11835 From: Portugal  |
I kinda like it, I don't know. I'm definitely happy with the song titles at least.
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| gopherhawk2@gmail.co Posts: 257 From: USA  |
Lots of trax. Me gusta.
---- Follow your heart, not trends.
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| seafood Posts: 104 From: Slovak Republic  |
Cover looks like it was put together in five minutes with photoshop. Still high hopes for the music.
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| Warman Erotic Stains Posts: 7695 From: Sweden  |
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| Zap Guest Posts: 3516  |
Cover is about as boring as it gets, but still better than those cliche over the top ones.
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| Introspekrieg Totemic Lust Posts: 2747 From: USA  |
So, they chose Mike because he was one of the only drummers who played their music in the audition without any personal interpretation or new ideas, now they want to "unleash" him. If they wanted the creativity they should have gone with Donati.
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| 3rdWorld China was a neat Posts: 4367 From: India  |
Written by Doge of Venice on 09.07.2013 at 20:05 Moon? i think it is the earth, it looks blue enough. Seems like they want to convey the whole world that DT is back on top and that this is their true self by putting the logo there. 
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| Night Theater Posts: 87 From: Australia  |
Written by UnknownCheese on 10.07.2013 at 03:21 A bit of a pretentious claim here.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Posts: 40071 From: The Netherlands  |
Written by Night Theater on 10.07.2013 at 11:47 how is claiming that creativity isn't Dream Theater's strong point a pretentious claim? To be honest they haven't been creative for a long long long time. What they do they do well, but creative it hasn't been for ages.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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| CobiWan1993 Secundum Filium Posts: 1364 From: USA  |
The cover's pretty meh compared to the other ones, but the song titles look pretty decent. Im not the biggest DT fan, but I'll still check it out and see if I like it.
---- Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe (Lao Tzu).
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| Daniell _爱情_ Posts: 6059 From: Poland  |
Who gives a flying fuck about album covers? Most of you guys will download the album anyway... I just hope this new album proves to be much better than that brain fart they released 2 years back.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Posts: 40071 From: The Netherlands |
Written by Daniell on 10.07.2013 at 23:05 was thinking the exact same thing Quote: That one was indeed not good, to use an understatement. Could well be their weakest.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| Daniell _爱情_ Posts: 6059 From: Poland |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 10.07.2013 at 23:26 Yes, it is the weakest. I was swamped with work today and had a ot of time for music, soI listened to it, among lots of other DT albums. It's so fucking bland and boring. I think I'd rate it even lower now than I did 2 years ago. But then, last time when DT lost a key member, they released a not so good "Falling Into Infinity", followed by the brilliant "Scenes from Memory". So here's hoping the terrible-great pattern will be repeated
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| Daniell _爱情_ Posts: 6059 From: Poland |
Written by Guest on 10.07.2013 at 23:50 Yes, the point you're making is valid. Lots and lots of great albums have great covers. Off the top of my head - Opeth, Slayer, old Metallica, Old Drudkh, Ahab, Esoteric, Insdesinence, Angelic Process, Type O Negative, Hollenthon, and many many more. So the quality of a cover being indicative of the quality of music if quite often the case. But then, Helloween's "Keepers" have abysmal covers, but the music is excellent. Iron Maiden's covers are cheesy, but the music kills. The same goes for Cradle of Filth, Symphony X, Dream Theater, 99% of death metal covers - shitty packaging may include brilliant songs. Etc., etc. It's kind of hard to generalize about the correlation between artworks and the music inside them.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Posts: 40071 From: The Netherlands |
Btw the first seven Irton Maiden covers are all great, and even though Somewhere In Time is by far their wekest of the first sevven it's art work is greati. However when the Maiden covers became crap, just look at the last couple of disasters, the music was also crap.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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