







Dream Theater, by Trebmal Photography

As we previously reported at Ghost Cult, Dream Theater are releasing a brand new album via their new album InsideOutMusic and embarking on a massive world tour in early 2019. As teased by their tour poster, the band will perform their entire 1999 classic album Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory every night of the tour, along with select new songs and hits. The tour will be an evening with format as well, as confirmed in a new interview guitarist John Petrucci and Rolling Stone.

Asked if they will play the whole record at each show, Petrucci said:

“We are. The tour is going to be ‘An Evening With,’ and part of the evening will be playing some of the new record and some older songs in our catalog, and then also playing ‘Scenes From A Memory’ in its entirety. So it going to be a lot of fun. And that was a really important record for us, speaking of storytelling and all that. Because it was our first concept record.”

Petrucci said that “Metropolis Pt. 2” was significant for him because “it was our first album with [keyboardist] Jordan [Rudess], so that was important. And it was the first album where we didn’t use an outside producer. I remember back then having a conversation with Mike [original DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy] where we said, ‘Let’s not do that anymore. Let’s produce ourselves.’ And we basically have ever since. So in that respect, ‘Scenes From A Memory’ might have actually been a record that was a reaction to the previous one. And then we also figured that we hadn’t done a concept album yet, and we decided that it was time. It was like, let’s make our ‘Operation: Mindcrime’, our ‘Tommy’, our ‘The Wall’. It was definitely a conscious decision to do something bold and new and different.”