Dream Theater

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Album Review: Dream Theater – Black Clouds & Silver Linings

Articles about Dream Theater

Dream Theater spends the summer with Iron Maiden

By David Buchanan on March 10th, 2010

Teenage dirt-bags and British heavies, unite! The metal is coming.

Album Review: Dream Theater – Black Clouds & Silver Linings

By David Buchanan on July 21st, 2009

The record is not what I would call a stand-out piece, but instead continues a long tradition of complex musical scoring that could put any Guitar Hero to shame. Never trading in sincerity for longevity or hit singles, Dream Theater continues to excite listeners, and also proves that if you do it right, a concept album or song series can make your career.

The news that was while we were gone…

By Alex Young on March 23rd, 2009

By now, it’s pretty clear we don’t take vacations, let alone days off. Take last week for example. Yes, Consequence of Sound packed our bags and headed down to Austin for South by Southwest, but between the three events we hosted and slew of others we attended (see rest of site), life wasn’t any less [...]

Dream Theater plans new album, Progressive Nation tour

By David Buchanan on February 17th, 2009

The past couple of years has seen progressive metallurgists Dream Theater engage in an oddball of activities; in 2008, the New York rockers followed the release of their first album on label Roadrunner Records and ninth overall, Systematic Chaos, with a greatest hits album and the launch of the Progressive Nation tour. Still feeling the [...]