The Dream Theater World, the official DREAM THEATER fan membership, has uploaded a 30-minute “Stage Tour” video that was filmed in Oslo, Norway on November 9 in the course of the band’s ongoing Fortieth-anniversary tour. Dream Theater World says: “Right here we have now a behind the scenes of the tour, with band members exhibiting us their nook of the stage, and we additionally meet a number of different essential folks from the DREAM THEATER world — [bassist] John Myung is in his tent practising together with his tech Jerry Pratt, we meet Jordan‘s [Rudess, DREAM THEATER keyboardist] tech Eric Frampton. In [DREAM THEATER guitarist John] Petrucci‘s tent we discover Maddi Schieferstein. We see Jimmy T Meslin, and we are saying hiya to the FoH engineer Ace Baker, and the lightning guru Steve Baird. And the man with massive sneakers to fill, taking up as tour supervisor; Chuck Randall.”
The progressive metallic legends performed their first live performance with Mike Portnoy in 14 years on October 20 on the O2 Area in London, United Kingdom.
The drummer co-founded DREAM THEATER in 1985 with Petrucci and Myung. Mike performed on 10 DREAM THEATER albums over a 20-year interval, from 1989’s “When Dream And Day Unite” via 2009’s “Black Clouds & Silver Linings”, earlier than exiting the group in 2010. Portnoy returned to DREAM THEATER in October 2023 after being changed by Mike Mangini, who performed with DREAM THEATER throughout 5 studio albums and accompanying world excursions.
London marked the kick-off live performance of DREAM THEATER‘s 2024-2025 Fortieth-anniversary tour. The European leg of the trek — introduced as “An Night With Dream Theater” — will run via November 24 in Amsterdam, hitting cities in quite a few international locations alongside the best way.
Portnoy co-founded DREAM THEATER in 1985 with guitarist John Petrucci and bassist John Myung. Mike performed on 10 DREAM THEATER albums over a 20-year interval, from 1989’s “When Dream And Day Unite” via 2009’s “Black Clouds & Silver Linings”, earlier than exiting the group in 2010. Portnoy returned to DREAM THEATER in October 2023 after being changed by Mike Mangini, who performed with DREAM THEATER throughout 5 studio albums and accompanying world excursions.
DREAM THEATER will launch its sixteenth studio album, “Parasomnia”, on February 7, 2025 through InsideOut Music. The LP marks the band’s first launch with Portnoy since 2009’s “Black Clouds & Silver Linings”.
“Parasomnia” was produced by guitarist John Petrucci, engineered by James “Jimmy T” Meslin, and blended by Andy Sneap. Hugh Syme returns as soon as once more to lend his inventive imaginative and prescient to the duvet artwork.
The primary single, “Night time Terror”, is a musical thrill trip captured within the simply shy of ten minutes listening expertise. A music video for the music — directed by Mike Leonard — is now obtainable.
