Progressive Metal legends Dream Theater have shared a new live performance video, “Fatal Tragedy”, from their upcoming live album Distant Memories – Live In London. Pre-orders are live at the link below. .The video is taken from the second set of the show where James LaBrie, John Petrucci, Jordan Rudess, John Myung and Mike Mangini celebrate the band’s seminal concept album Metropolis Part 2 – Scenes From A Memory. Watch “Fatal Tragedy” now!
To celebrate Independence Day today, Dream Theater keyboardist and progressive music genius Jordan Rudess has shared an instrumental cover of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” The United States National Anthem. Rudess recently launched a Patreon you can follow here.Continue reading
Check out all of today’s new releases in the music world!
Accept – Life’s A Bitch (7″) (Nuclear Blast) (Buy)
After The Burial – Evergreen (Sumerian Records) (Buy)
Allegaeon – Apoptosis (Metal Blade Records) (Buy)
Alpha Wolf – Fault EP (SharpTone Records) (Buy)
Alter Bridge – ABIII (MusicOnVinyl) (Buy)
American War Machine – Unholy War (Bridge 9) (Buy)
Archaic Tomb/Cryptworm – Split EP (Blood Harvest) (Buy)
Atlas Pain – Tales Of A Pathfinder (Scarlet Records) (Buy)
Black Sites – Exile (Hoove Child) (Buy)
Blood Command – Return Of The Arsonist EP (Fysisk Format) (Buy)
Cage The Elephant – Social Cues (Newbury Comics Exclusive Color Vinyl) (Buy)
Chalice Of Suffering – Lost Eternally (Transcending Obscurity) (Buy)
Chemical City Rebels – A New Plague (Self-Released) (Buy)
Chokehold – With This Thread I Hold On (Good Fight) (Buy)
The Chris Rolling Squad – Spitfire (Wormholedeath) (Buy)
Cirith Gorgor – Sovereign (Hammerheart) (Buy)
Corrosion Of Conformity – Wiseblood (Vinyl) (MusicOnVinyl) (Buy)
Cosmic Putrefaction – At The Threshold Of The Greatest Chasm (I, Voidhanger) (Buy)
The Cringe – Everywhere You’ve Never Been (Listen) (Buy)
Crooked Royals – Rumination EP (New Industry) (Buy)
Dawn Of Demise – Into The Depths Of Veracity (Unique Leader) (Buy)
Dead Superstar – I Did It For The Rock Gods (Self-Released) (Buy)
Dead To A Dying World – Elegy (Profound Lore) (Buy)
Druids – Monument (The Company KC) (Buy)
False Gods – The Serpent And The Ladder EP (Self-Released) (Buy)
Fatal Curse – Breaking The Trance (Shadow Kingdom) (Buy)
Fractal Universe – Rhizomes Of Insanity (Metal Blade Records) (Buy)
Gaslight Anthem – American Slang (Newbury Comics Exclusive Color Vinyl) (Buy)
Gods Forsaken – Smells Of Death (Soulseller) (Buy)
Grand Magus – Wolf God (Nuclear Blast) (Buy)
Haze Mage – Chronicles (Grimoire) (Buy)
Heavy As Texas – Heavy As Texas (Crunchy Western) (Buy)
Hosemen – Saturday Nite Conformity (Self-Released) (Buy)
Incantation – Upon The Throne Of Apocalypse Re-Release (Relapse Records) (Buy)
Jordan Rudess – Wired For Madness (Mascot) (Buy)
Joyous Wolf – Place In Time EP (Roadrunner Records) (Buy)
L’Acephale – L’Acephale (Eisenwald) (Buy)
Magnum – Chase The Dragon (MusicOnVinyl) (Buy)
Mayhem – Live in Sarpsborg (Buy)
Ministry – Twitch (Vinyl) (MusicOnVinyl) (Buy)
Mork – Det Svarte Juv (Peaceville) (Buy)
Pagan Altar – Judgment Of The Dead Re-Release (Temple Of Mystery) (Buy)
Pagan Altar – Lords Of Hypocrisy Re-Release (Temple Of Mystery) (Buy)
Pristine – Road Back To Ruin (Nuclear Blast) (Buy)
Sad Planets – Akron, Ohio (Tee Pee) (Buy)
Samael – Lux Mundi Re-Release (Napalm) (Buy)
Samael – Solar Soul Re-Release (Napalm) (Buy)
Sangue – Culs (Nuclear War Now!) (Buy)
Shotgun Sawyer – Bury The Hatchet (Ripple Music) (Buy)
Status Quo – Collected (MusicOnVinyl) (Buy)
Totengott – The Abyss (Xtreem/Burning World) (Buy)
Tripsitter – The Other Side Of Sadness (Prosthetic) (Buy)
Uncured – Epidemic (Seek And Strike) (Buy)
Various Artists – Industrial Accident: The Story Of Wax Trax! Records Soundtrack (Wax Trax!) (Buy)
Various Artists – A Tribute To Death (Antichrist) (Buy)
Vitriol – Chrysalis EP (Iron Bonehead) (Buy)
Walking Corpse – Walking Corpse EP (HPGD) (Buy)
The Wolf Howls When I Scream Your Name – To Be Where There Is Pale Light (Self-Released) (Buy)
The Wonder Years – The Greatest Generation (Newbury Comics Exclusive Color Vinyl) (Buy)
What can be most revealing about the cohesive nature of a band is any solo output from its individual members. For some, the music they create individually doesn’t show any markings in the collective band’s material and this can be good for a number of reasons but the primary one being showcasing how multi-faceted a musician that individual can be. Other solo output can bear a striking resemblance to their band discography showing how vital that individual is to the overall sound of the band. This is the case with Jordan Rudess’ newest solo outing Wired for Madness (Mascot Label / Music Theories Recordings).Continue reading
As we previously reported, Dream Theater’s Jordan Rudess is releasing his next solo album Wired For Madness via April 19 via Music Theories Recordings / Mascot Label Group. Guests on the album include drummer Marco Minnemann, fellow Dream Theater bandmates James LaBrie and John Petrucci, guitarists Vinnie Moore, Guthrie Govan, and Joe Bonamassa, as well as drummers Rod Morgenstein and Elijah Wood. Check out the lyric video for the title track right 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
The bastion of progressive, challenging and heavy music in the world, Kscope is celebrating ten years in business in 2018! Cheers! To help us celebrate, music industry veteran Simon Glacken of For The Lost PR has shared his favourite releases from the Kscope label.Continue reading
In a new interview with Metal Wani Dream Theater’s Jordan Rudess says the new album from the band, their first for InsideOut Music will be released in February 2019. “Right now, we’re mixing it. It’s being mixed as we speak. It sounds awesome. I’m so excited about it. There’s a very, very strong energy around the band these days. We all feel very connected and excited about what’s coming. We can’t wait to unleash the whole thing on everybody. And that’s all gonna happen really, really soon as well; it’s just right around the corner.” Hear the full interview below.Continue reading
Dream Theater 10-7-2016
Live At The Hanover Theater, Worcester, MA
All Photos By Matt Lambert/Trebmal Photography
Formed in 2004 by Zach Gammis and Andy Gentile, An Endless Sporadic have endured a somewhat strange and unique existence thus far. Their brand of vividly obscure instrumental progressive rock has already been featured in high-profile video games, most notably the inclusion of the mind-boggling noodling of “Impulse” on Guitar Hero 3 garnering them some notoriety.Continue reading