
Dream Theater – Dream Theater (2013)
(Roadrunner Records)
- False Awakening Suite – 2:42
- Sleep Paralysis
- Night Terrors
- Lucid Dream
The Enemy Inside – 6:17
The Looking Glass – 4:53
Enigma Machine – 6:02
The Bigger Picture – 7:41
Behind the Veil – 6:53
Surrender to Reason – 6:35
Along for the Ride – 4:45
Illumination Theory – 22:18
- Paradoxe de la Lumière Noire
- Live, Die, Kill
- The Embracing Circle
- The Pursuit of Truth
- Surrender, Trust & Passion
«Dream Theater» by Dream Theater is the bands twelfth studio album, and it’s their fourth album with Roadrunner Records. Its release date is September 24. This is the second album recorded with Mike Mangini as the drummer in the band, however it is the first where Mangini participated in the writing process from day one.
The album is the first self titled in it’s career, and us prog nerds just love some fun trivia; 20 years ago another famous prog band, Genesis, released their self titled album. It was that bands twelfth studio album. The album also contained 9 tracks. Obviously this is just pure coincidence, it’s just some fun trivia for you all.
Now, there may be some questions as to why self titled this far into their career. When a band names an album after itself, it’s usually the album that introduces the band to the world, or an album that signifies a complete rebirth or re-imagining of what the band stands for. For some more pretentious bands it may even be signalling their magnum opus. For others it may just be a complete lack of creativity. Some bands have no self titled albums, others have multiple. Only history and time will tell what Dream Theater’s eponymous album will be viewed as by the fan base.
The band themselves wish for this album to define what Dream Theater is in 2013, what defines them as a band, and that’s why it’s called «Dream Theater».
