Yesterday, Dream Theater announced the return of founding drummer Mike Portnoy. When I read the news, I thought it was some sort of April Fools joke or troll post, especially because of the poorly photoshopped picture of the group with…
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Warner Theater, Washington DC, USA Sunday, 6th March 2022 Prologue It was pretty surreal to be at the Warner Theater at 7:30pm on a Sunday; it was my first concert since the pandemic began two years ago, and for the…
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This year has been a bit of a roller coaster for Dream Theater fans, bringing us a new Transatlantic album, Liquid Tension Experiment 3, and now Dream Theater themselves with their fifteenth studio album, A View from the Top of…
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Happy New Year! It’s that time again where we look ahead to the audible delights that might give us a quick peck on the cheek, a full-blown snog or have us running screaming from the singles bar in 2010. It’s…
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Getting to choose only ten albums in a ten-year span is, of course, impossible. Convincing yourself that the ten albums you HAVE chosen are indeed the best ten albums you have heard in the ten years from 2010 to 2019…
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Let me start by quoting the last couple of sentences from my review of 2016’s The Astonishing: “While it’s definitely the band’s most solid and consistent work for a long time, one wonders if this album is indicative of future…
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The Astonishing – Live The Palladium, London Saturday, 18th February 2016 There is a heightened sense of expectation and anticipation as a high spirited crowd gather on a chilly night outside the doors of the London Palladium for the opening…
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What can I say? I am surely not the first (nor the last) to admit that I am indeed astonished by Dream Theater’s latest oeuvre, but the effects of this album go well past the shock factor that the band…
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