Dream Theater’s Upcoming Album Announced

Just received this news from the official Dream Theater newsletter that the upcoming Dream Theater album, Systematic Chaos, would be released this 5th of June, 2007. It got my so excited to do an entry for an almost dead blog.

If you haven’t already known, Dream Theater is the band that is on top of my personal favourite list. I attended their concert in Singapore last year and it no doubt was the best concert that I’ve ever attended.

I am extermely impressed with the band’s efficiency, consistently making an album once every 2 years and doing a world tour for almost every album released. Dream Theater’s concerts are also unlike any usual concerts by most other artists, most of Dream Theater’s concerts are usually called ‘An Evening with…’ simply for the reason that they are at least 3 hours long. I wonder how can they find time in composing and recording while they are touring for their last album. On top of that, all the band members are also involved with their own side projects, eg. John Petrucci (guitarist) is currently touring with Steve Vai and Joe Satriani for G3 Tour and Mike Portnoy (drummer) has also recorded a couple of other albums for other artists.

Extremely amazed at their efficiency. Gotta remind myself next time not to be lazy whenever I listen to their music in the future. If it’s not outrageously costly, I’m definitely buying the DVD Special Edition of Systematic Chaos when it’s released, which would have a special 5.1 surround sound mix of the album and a 90-documentary of the band directed by Portnoy.

By the way, the band’s also kind enough to have released the first single to the album, Constant Motion, online. Guess what? It’s free, it’s available now and it’s of high quality - 256kbps MP3! I have downloaded and am listening to it. Despite that it sounds a little harder than their usual material, Dream Theater’s still as good as ever before. Contant Motion is also Dream Theater’s first single in more than 10 years. They haven’t released any singles since releasing Hollow Years as single in 1997 despite so many good albums released after that. Isn’t it ironic that this is the first time they are releasing a single (with music video) for so long and yet they are making it available for free.

Download Constant Motion at Dream Theater’s official record label’s site.
Watch Systemic Chaos Promotional Video on Youtube.