Dream Theater

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I'm sticking with the theory that they're all really short chunks of songs, meant to make up larger pieces with the start of each piece indicated by the NOMAC symbol.

Or maybe it'll be a quadruple album and each Act spans 2 discs. :p
 
You'd rather have spoken interludes than DT's standard length songs just broken up into individual tracks? :P
 
I tend to dislike albums with gazillion tracks on it in general. I think out of the albums that I like, the one with the most tracks is London Calling by The Clash with 19. Hopefully this one is an exception.
 
I'm pretty sure it's going to be exactly like that. JLB has been working with Anthony Lucassen on Ayreon stuff so it makes sense that they might've been inspired.

When bands do that I usually just edit the tracks together and listen to it that way. I did that with SFAM too, combining the "scenes".

I don't really care how many tracks are on it, I'll just wait to listen.
 
Mosh said:
I'm pretty sure it's going to be exactly like that. JLB has been working with Anthony Lucassen on Ayreon stuff so it makes sense that they might've been inspired.
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"JLB" and "inspired" in the same sentence :eek:. This thread is getting way too surrealistic!:p

(apart from that, as long the album is good, it doesn't matter to me how the tracks are split ;) )
 
I want to shout, "yay!" but this just looks so pretentious...

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Track list and character silliness here:
http://www.dreamtheater.net/theastonishing
 
I for one like the cover art. I'm worried though that this album is going to suffer from some major cheesiness. There's also too many tracks.
 
Doesn't seem pretentious to me. Ambitious for sure. I'm glad they're going out of their comfort zone 30 years into their career. Last 3 or 4 albums were playing it pretty safe.

Cover art looks awesome. Best in a long time.
 
The cover art is fine, the track length, characters, and titles are not. It wreaks of over-saturation, which I guess makes sense for Dream Theater, but it's just absurd.

Emperor Nafaryus? I mean, come on.

Once you put "Entr'acte" in your titles, you've reached a new level of pretentiousness.
 
Some of the names are a bit lame, yea, but I don't care. I'm only really interested in what's going on musically. Although I don't know if Nafaryus is pretentious as much as it's just silly. That one just seems a bit lazy.

What's wrong with Entr'acte? Some guys in the band have classical music backgrounds. It's way better than something like "Interlude" or "Intermission" or "Second Overture" (as Neal Morse would do).
 
I think this album will achieve an extraordinary feat: being even more ridiculously geeky than the "In the Presence of Enemies" diptych. Another free download coming up...
 
Black Bart said:
I think this album will achieve an extraordinary feat: being even more ridiculously geeky than the "In the Presence of Enemies" diptych. Another free download coming up...
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What's wrong with In the Presence of Enemies?
That's my favorite DT song.

This whole Emperor Nafaryus and Entr'acte thing reeks of Limburger cheese.
 
You'd think they were launching a MMORPG with this marketing.

Also, cover is meh if you ask me. Very generic digital futuristic landscape wallpaper from 2000's-ish.

Cut the crap and give us some music.
 
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