It’s impossible to think that Dream Theater has never made an album based around sleep & the surrounding phenomena associated with it. Parasomnia then seeks to rectify that,while not a concept album in the strictest sense every song is based around something to do with sleep. There are some weighty things explored on this album…
A historic night for Dream Theater at London’s biggest arena. The first night of their 40th anniversary world tour, their first headline show at The O2 Arena, and their first live show with returning original drummer and Dream Theater founding member, Mike Portnoy, in over 14 years. A show with this significance was going to…
Over two years have passed since Dream Theater were in the UK and Europe. Their now legendary Distance Over Time Tour saw Dream Theater playing their iconic album Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From A Memory in full, producing some of the most heralded shows of their career. That tour took place just a couple of…
Prog metal titans and friends of Rock Sins, Dream Theater have today announced their return to the UK in the Spring of 2022. James, John, John, Mike and Jordan will be heading to Belfast, Newcastle and London’s SSE Wembley Arena on the opening three dates of a much wider European tour across April and May…
Our Spotify playlist has been quiet for the first few weeks of the year, but we’re back up and running with a fantastic selection of tracks for our first installment of 2020! We have our usual selection of brand new singles, recent album tracks and some old favourites to have you moshing at your desk…
I was all set to review tonight’s Dream Theater show at London’s Hammersmith Apollo (on the 21st of February 2020) in the traditional way. The tour sees them playing their acclaimed concept album, Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes From A Memory, in full, along with a selection of other songs. Tonight’s show is the first of…
Last month, Rock Sins had the huge privilege of spending some time with Dream Theater’s legendary keyboard wizard Jordan Rudess. Ahead of their performance at the 2019 Download Festival, Jordan braved the improving muddy conditions to talk to us about all things Dream Theater as well as his recent solo album Wired For Madness. For…
Heads are sore, feet are weary but that matters not because there is one full day of Download 2019 left to go. The Donington masses collectively dust themselves down as they head towards Tool, Enter Shikari, Slayer’s last ever UK show and much more, so let’s get straight to it. I Prevail (7), through no…
It’s high time we updated our Spotify playlist. Now that the craziness of Slam Dunk and Download is out of the way for another year, we’ve got a fresh bands of tunes old and new for our readers and Spotify subscribers! In terms of new tracks, there’s plenty of great stuff. New singles have arrived…
It’s time for another update to our Spotify Playlist! Continuing our tradition of mixing in the best of the old and the new we’ve got a royal musical feast for you this week. New singles, or tracks from impending new albums from the likes of While She Sleeps and In Flames kick things off. Other…
Dream Theater’s brand new album, Distance Over Time, comes at an interesting point for the band. Following their not entirely well received concept opus, The Astonishing (which may have played out better when seen live in it’s entirety than on record), a portion of their fans were keen to see them return to a more…
We said with their first announcement that the Download Festival team certainly weren’t messing around with their plans for 2019. Having dropped all three headliners and another dozen plus bands in the first announcement, they’ve followed it up with another mammoth helping of bands for next year. There’s only one place we can start, and…
