Dream Theater has shared the brain-breaking animated video for ‘Barstool Warrior’! The track comes from their acclaimed recent album Distance Over Time (InsideOut Music/Sony). After touring Europe this summer, the band is preparing for the next leg of their Distance Over Time tour, celebrating twenty years of their arguably best album, Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory. The full list of dates are below and tickets are on sale now. Continue reading
Bands with twenty-five-plus years under their belts often have to wrestle with the temptation to become a nostalgia act or to continue pushing the musical envelope which, in turn, carries its own set of risks. For Dream Theater, the past few years have been particularly difficult for the band: with drummer Mike Portnoy leaving in 2010 and filling the role with Mike Mangini, the band has been trying to reconfigure its soul. Continue reading
Dream Theater continues to whet fans’ appetites for their new album with another heavy track. The groovy and hard-edged ‘Paralyzed just dropped and it is killer! The band is really channeling their earliest albums, but still maintaining their super proggy feel. Distance Over Time is due February 22nd via InsideOut Music. The band will hit the road on their “Celebrating 20 Years Of Scenes From A Memory” tour, a nod to the group’s 1999 concept album Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory, which the band has not performed live in its entirety in almost twenty years. Get hype! Watch the video and stream and buy the track below. Continue reading