Dream Theater - New Song Streaming Online
"The Gift Of Music" - the first track from Dream Theater's upcoming album The Astonishing - has premiered officially online. You can enjoy it as much as you want via the YouTube player below. It has also been confirmed that the group's new concept double album will be in stores on January 29th, 2016 via Roadrunner Records. Did the new track live up to your expectations? It's only the first single.
Dream Theater bolstered its sound on The Astonishing with a full orchestra, multiple choirs and unorthodox instruments. Enlisted to muster those forces was David Campbell, a veteran conductor and orchestrator whose extensive credits include work for film, Broadway, and more than 450 gold and platinum albums by the likes of Paul McCartney, Rush, My Chemical Romance and more.
The Astonishing tracklist:
Act I:
01. Descent Of The NOMACS
02. Dystopian Overture
03. The Gift Of Music
04. The Answer
05. A Better Life
06. Lord Nafaryus
07. A Savior In The Square
08. When Your Time Has Come
09. Act Of Faythe
10. Three Days
11. The Hovering Sojourn
12. Brother, Can You Hear Me?
13. A Life Left Behind
14. Ravenskill
15. Chosen
16. A Tempting Offer
17. Digital Discord
18. The X Aspect
19. A New Beginning
20. The Road To Revolution
Act II:
01. 2285 Entr'acte
02. Moment Of Betrayal
03. Heaven's Cove
04. Begin Again
05. The Path That Divides
06. Machine Chatter
07. The Walking Shadow
08. My Last Farewell
09. Losing Faythe
10. Whispers In The Wind
11. Hymn Of A Thousand Voices
12. Our New World
13. Power Down
14. Astonishing
Dream Theater recently announced new tour dates for a momentous European headline run which is set to kick off February 18th at the Palladium in London, England. The winter run will see the prog titans delivering a one-of-a-kind set in which they will be debuting The Astonishing live in its entirety.
Dream Theater bolstered its sound on The Astonishing with a full orchestra, multiple choirs and unorthodox instruments. Enlisted to muster those forces was David Campbell, a veteran conductor and orchestrator whose extensive credits include work for film, Broadway, and more than 450 gold and platinum albums by the likes of Paul McCartney, Rush, My Chemical Romance and more.
The Astonishing tracklist:
Act I:
01. Descent Of The NOMACS
02. Dystopian Overture
03. The Gift Of Music
04. The Answer
05. A Better Life
06. Lord Nafaryus
07. A Savior In The Square
08. When Your Time Has Come
09. Act Of Faythe
10. Three Days
11. The Hovering Sojourn
12. Brother, Can You Hear Me?
13. A Life Left Behind
14. Ravenskill
15. Chosen
16. A Tempting Offer
17. Digital Discord
18. The X Aspect
19. A New Beginning
20. The Road To Revolution
Act II:
01. 2285 Entr'acte
02. Moment Of Betrayal
03. Heaven's Cove
04. Begin Again
05. The Path That Divides
06. Machine Chatter
07. The Walking Shadow
08. My Last Farewell
09. Losing Faythe
10. Whispers In The Wind
11. Hymn Of A Thousand Voices
12. Our New World
13. Power Down
14. Astonishing
Dream Theater recently announced new tour dates for a momentous European headline run which is set to kick off February 18th at the Palladium in London, England. The winter run will see the prog titans delivering a one-of-a-kind set in which they will be debuting The Astonishing live in its entirety.
[Also thanks to Csabi for sending in this news!]
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| Nimlot A. Reader Posts: 469  |
I find this difficult to listen to. I'll probably give this album a miss as well.
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| LeKiwi High Fist Prog Posts: 4038  |
Not much of note going on here. Pretty generic prog.
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| Ellinor Posts: 74  |
Big DT fan here. I find this song to be generic too. Hopefully, rest of album will be better.
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| Daniell _爱情_ Elite Posts: 6061  |
I wouldn't get my hopes too high if I were you guys. 34 songs? Even if several of them are interludes/intros, etc., it's still a shitload of songs. After so many albums, and such short breaks between them, what ar ethe chances of this album being truly great? Slim to none if you ask me. Still, one can hope...
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| musclassia Staff Posts: 7041  |
I don't really know what to expect from this album given how huge it seems to be - can really imagine at least half the tracks being filler unless there's a load of interludes in there. This song, however, I like it - prefer it to the majority of songs from the self-titled album
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| BloodTears ANA-thema Elite Posts: 11835  |
Typical single, nothing too exciting but good  The album is looking pretty massive though in terms of scope.
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| Byners Posts: 215  |
The music is actually better than I was expecting :v
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| Azarath Free as a.. Fish Posts: 959  |
Yeah, it's ok. I just wonder why it seems to be impossible to get a good drum sound for Mangini.
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| Unhealer Eclecticist Posts: 2311  |
Written by Daniell on 04.12.2015 at 14:47 The album must follow a structure similar to Ayreon's albums. Instead of the the usual 12 minute proggy number, they split it in 3-4 tracks. If that's the case, then this won't be much different to other DT albums other than hearing more track changes during the listen.
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| Doge of Venice Posts: 434  |
I think they made the plot of the album that music is made by robots so they had an excuse to sound so dry and sterile.  Saying that, it's not bad. Better than what I remember anything on the last album sounding like.
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| qlacs "The Quaker" Posts: 1537  |
Enjoyed it, but this is far from THE Dream Theater we had back. Maybe it's more focused but the range of instruments are hardly used.
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| Lethrokai Posts: 507  |
It sounds like DT want to be writing the new '2112'. Dystopias are the "in" thing of this generation after all. I hope they can pull it off, but am doubtful. All I can say is experiment more.
---- Sometimes you just need to roll the dice and look away.
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| Panterica Posts: 341  |
The song ain't that bad, yet a 34-song-album is quite a burden to go through. I highly doubt that DT got enough creative power to pull such a feat.
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| ♱ RaVeN ♱ Posts: 106  |
Really good song! it has a retro , 90's feel to it. James sounds pretty good too
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| Karlabos Meat and Potatos Posts: 5658  |
^90s is retro already? I feel old =[
---- "Aah! The cat turned into a cat!" - Reimu Hakurei
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