Year : 2021
Style : Progressive Metal
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 183 mb
Bio:
Dream Theater is an American progressive metal/progressive rock band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Petrucci, John Myung, and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Massachusetts. They subsequently dropped out of their studies to concentrate further on the band that would ultimately become Dream Theater. Though a number of lineup changes followed, the three original members remained together along with James LaBrie and Jordan Rudess until September 8, 2010 when Portnoy left the band. In October 2010, the band held auditions for a drummer to replace Portnoy. Mike Mangini was announced as the new permanent drummer on April 29, 2011.The band is well known for the technical proficiency of its instrumentalists, who have won many awards from music instruction magazines. Guitarist John Petrucci has been named as the third player on the G3 tour six times, more than any invited players. In 2009 he was named the No. 2 best metal guitarist by Joel McIver in his book The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists. He was also named as one of the "Top 10 Fastest Shredders of All Time" by GuitarOne magazine.Jordan Rudess is considered to be one of the greatest keyboard players of all time by many publications like MusicRadar.Former drummer Mike Portnoy has won 26 awards from Modern Drummer magazine and is also the second youngest person (at the age of 37) to be inducted into the Rock Drummer Hall of Fame. His replacement Mike Mangini has also previously set 5 WFD records.John Myung was voted the greatest bassist of all time in a poll conducted by MusicRadar in August through September 2010. The band was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2010.The band's highest-selling album is the gold-selling Images and Words (1992), which reached No. 61 on the Billboard 200 chart.Both the 1994 follow-up Awake and their 2002 release Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence also entered the charts at No. 32 and No. 46 respectively and received mostly positive reviews. Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory was ranked number 95 on the October 2006 issue of Guitar World magazine's list of The greatest 100 guitar albums of all time.It is ranked as the 15th Greatest Concept Album (as of March 2003) by Classic Rock Magazine and as the number one all-time progressive album by Rolling Stone (as of July 2012). Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence also led to Dream Theater becoming the initial band reviewed in the music section of Entertainment Weekly during its opening week of release, despite the magazine generally preferring more mainstream music.The band's eleventh studio album, A Dramatic Turn of Events, was released on September 13, 2011. On November 30, 2011, the album's lead single, "On the Backs of Angels", was nominated for a Grammy Award in the "Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance" category, marking the band's first ever Grammy nomination.Dream Theater's self-titled twelfth studio album was released on September 23, 2013 and earned their second Grammy Award nomination, this time for “Best Metal Performance”, for the album's first single, "The Enemy Inside".On April 9, 2013, Images and Words won Loudwire's fan voted March Metal Madness for world's best metal album beating albums by Dio, AC/DC, Judas Priest, Megadeth and Metallica. As of 2011, Dream Theater has sold over 12 million records worldwide
Album:
Even after hundreds of shows, 15 million records sold, two Grammy Award nominations, and almost four decades together, DREAM THEATER continue to look ahead. Their collective gaze never wavers from the future.Instead, the progressive metal trailblazers – James LaBrie (Vocals), John Petrucci (Guitars), Jordan Rudess (Keyboards), John Myung (Bass), and Mike Mangini (Drums) – consistently explore uncharted territory with the same spirit of sonic adventurousness.On their upcoming fifteenth album to be released October 22, ”A View from the Top of the World”, the New York quintet rush forward at full speed again with seven tracks equally steeped in articulate arrangements, groove-laden guitars, and skyscraping melodies bringing to mind their early works.DREAM THEATER was in the middle of a sold-out world tour in support of their last release “Distance Over Time” and the 20th anniversary of “Scenes From A Memory” when a global pandemic brought the world to a stop. The musicians found themselves at home, with LaBrie in Canada and the rest of the group in the States.As fate would have it, they’d just finished construction on DTHQ (Dream Theater Headquarters) — a combination live recording studio, rehearsal space, control room, equipment storage, and creative hive. With LaBrie in Canada, he initially wrote with the band via Zoom on a monitor in DTHQ. In March 2021, he flew down to New York, quarantined, and recorded his vocals face-to-face with Petrucci.We think opener “The Alien” could honestly be shown as an introductory track to someone new to Dream Theater, because it encompasses so many of both their old style, but also shows the new direction the band has taken. That’s something that Dream Theater has always practiced wonderfully – each and every album sounds different than the last and all other ones before.Sure, they have common elements that are present through their entire discography, such as mind-blowing guitar solos, complex time signatures, and soaring vocals from James LaBrie, but that’s what makes the band what they are, and this epic nine minute song is a great showcase of that.As a longtime fan of Dream Theater, all over ”A View from the Top of the World” I can hear influences from their 1994 album ‘Awake’ all the way to albums such as 2011’s ‘A Dramatic Turn of Events’, and even 2019’s ‘Distance Over Time’.We have that time signature changes with intricate melodies, sounding heavy at places with metal-esque groove that’ll make even extreme metal fans bob their heads in rhythm. LaBrie is in top form, and it isn’t necessary to remark the rest of the band member performances. DT simply kills.There are multiple instrumental passages in which the band breaks into the technical prowess they are (in)famous for, with gorgeous solos from John Petrucci, masterful leads by Jordan Rudess, punchy grooves by John Myung and unreal fills n’ beats by Mike Mangini.
Line-Up:
James LaBrie - Vocals (1991-present) - See also: James LaBrie, ex-Mullmuzzler, True Symphonic Rockestra, ex-Frameshift, ex-Coney Hatch, ex-Nightmare Cinema, ex-Winter Rose
John Myung - Bass (1988-present) - See also: The Jelly Jam, ex-Majesty, ex-Platypus
John Petrucci - Guitars, Vocals (additional) (1988-present) - See also: John Petrucci, Liquid Tension Experiment, ex-Liquid Trio Experiment (live), ex-Majesty, ex-Nightmare Cinema, ex-G3 (live)
Jordan Rudess - Keyboards (1999-present) - See also: Jordan Rudess, Liquid Tension Experiment, Deep Purple (live), ex-Liquid Trio Experiment, Levin Minnemann Rudess, ex-Vinnie Moore, ex-Dixie Dregs, ex-Speedway Blvd.
Mike Mangini - Drums (2011-present) - See also: John Petrucci (live), ex-Mullmuzzler, ex-Annihilator, ex-James LaBrie, ex-Stygia, ex-Extreme, ex-Steve Vai
Tracklist:
CD1:
01. The Alien
02. Answering The Call
03. Invisible Monster
04. Sleeping Giant
05. Transcending Time
06. Awaken The Master
07. A View From The Top Of The World
CD2: Instrumental
01. The Alien (Instrumental)
02. Answering The Call (Instrumental)
03. Invisible Monster (Instrumental)
04. Sleeping Giant (Instrumental)
05. Transcending Time (Instrumental)
06. Awaken The Master (Instrumental)
07. A View From The Top Of The World (Instrumental)
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