Grammy-winning, progressive music titans DREAM THEATER will launch “Quarantième: Reside À Paris” on November 28 through their longtime label associate Inside Out Music/Sony Music.
“Quarantième: Reside À Paris” paperwork DREAM THEATER‘s November 23, 2024 live performance at Adidas Enviornment in Paris, France throughout the band’s Fortieth-anniversary headlining tour of Europe, and it options the lineup of James LaBrie (vocals),John Petrucci (guitar),John Myung (bass),Jordan Rudess (keyboards) and Mike Portnoy (drums). The trouble incorporates a setlist that spans the band’s whole profession with classics like “Metropolis Pt. 1”, “Panic Assault”, “Octavarium” and “Pull Me Below” represented amongst different fan favorites.
To coincide with the announcement, DREAM THEATER has launched a reside model of “Overture 1928 / Unusual Déjà Vu” through all digital companies suppliers and a video of the efficiency might be seen under.
Petrucci feedback: “From the second we introduced our Fortieth-anniversary tour, we knew it could be a really particular occasion for each the band and our followers and have to be captured. With this launch, our efficiency in Paris is introduced so superbly in each beautiful audio and video and actually encapsulates this momentous event for all to take pleasure in.”
Provides Portnoy: “We all the time knew this tour can be unforgettable as a result of not solely have been we celebrating 4 many years since forming the band, but in addition the reunion of the band’s basic lineup. The joy and feelings between us and our followers at each present have been palpable and completely off the charts! The evening captured right here in Paris was an epic night that we are able to now share with the entire world to have fun this unimaginable tour.”
Offered in a number of codecs, with paintings by longtime collaborator Hugh Syme, “Quarantième: Reside À Paris” will likely be out there as a restricted deluxe 3CD+3Blu-ray artbook, together with 68 pages of images and paintings in addition to an extra Blu-ray of bonus materials. It is going to even be out there as a particular version 3CD+2Blu-ray Digipak, restricted deluxe 180g 4LP boxset and digitally. The Blu-ray consists of the total present with Dolby Atmos, 5.1 Encompass Sound and high-resolution stereo audio.
The monitor itemizing for “Quarantième: Reside À Paris” is as follows:
CD1:
01. Metropolis Pt. 1
02. Overture 1928
03. Unusual Déjà Vu
04. The Mirror
05. Panic Assault
06. Barstool Warrior
07. Hole Years
08. Fixed Movement
09. As I Am
CD2:
01. Orchestral Overture
02. Night time Terror
03. Below A Glass Moon
04. This Is The Life
05. Vacant
06. Stream of Consciousness
07. Octavarium
CD3:
01. Residence
02. The Spirit Carries On
03. Pull Me Below
Blu-ray 1:
01. Metropolis Pt. 1
02. Overture 1928
03. Unusual Déjà Vu
04. The Mirror
05. Panic Assault
06. Barstool Warrior
07. Hole Years
08. Fixed Movement
09. As I Am
Blu-ray 2:
01. Orchestral Overture
02. Night time Terror
03. Below A Glass Moon
04. This Is The Life
05. Vacant
06. Stream of Consciousness
07. Octavarium
08. Residence
09. The Spirit Carries On
10. Pull Me Below
Throughout an August 6 look on SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk”, Portnoy spoke about what it has been like for him to be touring with DREAM THEATER as soon as once more after a 13-year absence. The progressive metallic legends performed their first live performance with Portnoy in 14 years on October 20, 2024 on the O2 Enviornment in London, United Kingdom. The drummer, who co-founded DREAM THEATER, performed on 10 of the band’s 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. Portnoy advised “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk”“It has been unimaginable — the largest tour the band has ever achieved. We began on the O2 in London, which was extremely emotional, after which we wrapped the U.S. tour at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor… There’s so many highlights. It has been unimaginable. We did all of Europe as soon as with [the] ‘An Night With’ [run of shows], then we did South America. We did North America, then we did this [European] competition run, and now we’re about to shift into lastly doing a tour for the brand new album, ‘trigger via all this we put out a brand new album in February, and we have not actually had an opportunity to correctly give consideration to that but, ‘trigger we have been so busy with the Fortieth-anniversary factor. So we’re about to shift into ‘Parasomnia’ mode, and we’ve a North American tour kicking off subsequent month. And we’ll be all via the States in September and October with a very completely different present. So if anyone noticed us within the final spherical, this can be a fully completely different set, fully completely different stage, and we’re gonna play the entire new album in its entirety, which will likely be a variety of enjoyable and eventually give it its due.”
Requested if the tracks from DREAM THEATER‘s sixteenth studio album, “Parasomnia”, will likely be carried out in the identical order that they seem on the LP on the present U.S. tour, Portnoy mentioned: “Yeah, it was written to be carried out that approach. The entire album could be very very like an idea album in that respect. So we have performed a few the songs this previous 12 months on the Fortieth-anniversary tour, however now we may dig into it and provides it a full top-to-bottom presentation. After which gonna have fun the thirtieth anniversary of ‘A Change of Seasons’, which was like the primary large epic the band put out 30 years in the past. So we’re gonna play that as nicely.”
Portnoy added: “We have nonetheless bought a variety of gasoline left within the tank. We’re gonna go over to Asia proper after New Yr, after which we’ve a 3rd European run subsequent spring to do the ‘Parasomnia’ over there. So it has been unimaginable, however the feelings at each present — the followers, you simply look on the market and also you see grown males crying, and it is all smiles and tears.”
After Trunk famous that a variety of the feelings surrounding DREAM THEATER‘s present tour are primarily based on the truth that Portnoy is again within the band after such a very long time away, Mike mentioned: “I am so grateful that it is come again full circle. It will’ve been actually unhappy if we by no means did reunite. I’ve seen different bands, like PINK FLOYD with Roger Waters, or GENESIS with Peter Gabriel, sure bands that by no means do reunite. And as a fan, it is a disgrace. I’d like to see these lineups collectively once more earlier than all of it ends. So for us to be again collectively once more and celebrating the Fortieth anniversary of the band and using off into the sundown collectively, it is poetic. It is the best way it must be, actually. And I am so glad that we’re right here collectively once more.”
DREAM THEATER‘s summer season/fall 2025 “An Night With Dream Theater” U.S. tour is hitting 30 cities throughout the USA, kicking off September 5 in Studying, Pennsylvania and working via October 25, when it wraps in Lengthy Island, New York. The tour is making stops in Orlando, Floria; Detroit, Michigan; Kansas Metropolis, Missouri and Windfall, Rhode Island, amongst others. DREAM THEATER is performing its newest album in its entirety in addition to classics and fan favorites from the band’s catalog in what guarantees to be an unforgettable night of music.
“Parasomnia” got here out on February 7, 2025 through InsideOut Music. The LP marked DREAM THEATER‘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 combined by Andy Sneap. Hugh Syme returned as soon as once more to lend his artistic imaginative and prescient to the duvet artwork.
“Parasomnia” is an eight-song, 71-minute set which was recorded at DREAM THEATER‘s DTHQ studio on Lengthy Island, New York. It’s the follow-up to 2021’s “A View From The Prime Of The World”, which debuted at within the prime 10 of Billboard‘s Prime Laborious Rock Albums, Prime Rock Albums and Unbiased Albums charts. Six songs on “Parasomnia” are over seven minutes and the closing epic “The Shadow Man Incident” clocks in at almost 20 minutes.
The North American leg of DREAM THEATER‘s Fortieth-anniversary tour kicked off on February 7 at The Met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The trek was “An Night With Dream Theater” and was the primary tour of North America since Portnoy‘s return to the lineup. The tour concluded on March 22 in New York Metropolis.
Portnoy, Petrucci and Myung began DREAM THEATER as MAJESTY in 1985, after assembly on the Berklee School Of Music in Boston. LaBrie got here on board in 1991, whereas Rudess joined in 1999.
Previous to Portnoy‘s return to DREAM THEATER, the drummer and Petrucci labored collectively on the latter’s 2020 solo album, “Terminal Velocity”, and toured collectively. Portnoy and Petrucci additionally joined Rudess and bassist Tony Levin for a 3rd studio album as LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT in 2021.