Distance Over Time

In 2016, prog metal progenitors Dream Theater issued the 130-minute conceptual opus The Astonishing, which all but left metal behind to pursue a classic prog direction.

It's hard to say where progressive metal would be today without Dream Theater. With other metal acts growing tired by the late '80s and earl...

The thirty-year career of progressive metal icon DREAM THEATER has largely been an exercise in musical excess. Even the band's most passionate fans would be hard-pressed to argue criticisms that the group occasionally overdoes it on the musical and vocal extremes of the genre. The group's 2016 recor...

It’s quite difficult approaching a review and critique of a new Dream Theater album. This is a band that has so much respect and clout as one of the most intelligent, and skilled metal bands. I’ve been a fan of theirs for a while, however, even the casual observer of their work might have noticed a

The best thing Dream Theater could do after 2016's The Astonishing, an overwrought double concept album with a storyline that makes 1999's Scenes From a...