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…
Dream Theater need little introduction, after all, they are the world’s biggest progressive metal band. They are currently on the road celebrating the 25th anniversary of their breakthrough album, Images and Words, something we focused on recently in a Rock Sins special feature. Taking the spotlight on Images and Words even further, we were granted…
In a couple of weeks time, the UK will bear witness to a very special event: the 25th anniversary tour celebration of Dream Theater’s Images and Words album. Whilst “the album anniversary tour” has become such a regular occurrence to some over recent years that the unique appeal of them has become diluted to a…
If you’re a long time Dream Theater fan then hold onto your proverbial hat, because this is big news! Former DT drummer Mike Portnoy has announced he is bringing his Shattered Fortress project to the UK for a one off performance of Dream Theater’s Twelve Step Suite of songs. This very special show will take…
A few weeks ago, progressive metal icons Dream Theater announced that they were going to tour their breakthrough album Images & Words across Europe in the early part of 2017. However at that time any UK shows were conspicuous by their absence. But, UK Dream Theater fans, fear not! The band have just announced a…
If you like prog metal this is about as big as it gets. Dream Theater in the last few minutes have announced plans to tour their iconic breakthrough album Images & Words across Europe in early 2017. The shows will feature Dream Theater playing the 1992 classic album in full, plus a wide selection of…
Things went a bit haywire in the Rock Sins camp last week, so there was no video of the week contest. As a result, we’ve decided to double the numbers this week. That’s right, a whopping TEN videos to choose from. First up in this bumper edition of the Rock Sins video of the week…
A combination of setting, staging and a great performance makes The Astonishing a total triumph. Going into a Dream Theater gig with a sense of trepidation was new territory. You know the musicianship will be virtually flawless if not perfect, but when you’re going to be sitting through an album that’s provoked an incredibly mixed…