augmentedanxiety:

These Walls - Dream Theater

For a 23 minute song, A Change of Seasons never feels long enough, despite how amazing, heart-wrenching and powerful its closing is, I always get a little sad that it’s over

Innocence caressing me

I’ve never felt so young before

There was so much life in me

Still I longed to search for more 

My god, even just the intro to “A Change of Seasons” is fucking perfect

luigi06:

Eve By Dream Theater

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mosttasteless:

hollylouisepetrucci:

dream-thespian:

crimson-sunset:

Dream Theater - Lines In The Sand

Falling Into Infinity doesn’t get much love, so…

because it’s the worst of their albums

well

not counting WDADU

because no one counts WDADU

WDADU just sits in the corner gathering dust..where it belongs..

Falling Into Infinity is horribly under appreciated, it should be a crime.

arousal-annulled:

mdrustinpeace:

Dream Theater - Space Dye Vest

The most profound, heartbreaking and ultimately depressing song to have ever been written about a magazine fashion model.

Oh, Kevin Moore.

Also the song that holds Awake together perfectly

I can’t see the album having the same feel at all if it didn’t end with this song, there’s just something about it

erotomania1928:

It’s Christmas time. And for Kevin Moore fans, that brings to mind one thing: the captivating sample at the start of Dream Theater’s 1994 song, “6:00.”

Moore left the band before the Awake album was released and he was not asked of the song’s meaning in subsequent interviews. But in a rare official fanzine printed after his departure in 1994, band members John Petrucci and James LaBrie discussed the tune in depth. The fanzine and three earlier ones were secured earlier this month in an online sale by Michael R. Ebert, also known as Mebert78 on The Mooreatorium Forum.

“It was one that Kev wrote,” Petrucci said in the interview conducted in London on Aug. 23, 1994. “He pretty much wrote the whole thing. We fucked around with the choruses a bit and the ending of the song, but the majority of the arrangement and all the parts, Kev wrote.”

LaBrie offered his interpretation of the lyrics: “If you don’t take life by the reins and chase after something you love and need to do to carry on, then life will just pass you by.” He added: “The way it starts out, it’s 6:00 and this guy doesn’t want to get up because he has to go to work… He finds himself outside of work, sitting in his car, he can’t get out of the car to go into work ’cause he just does not want to do this anymore.”

As most Moore fans know, the song’s “6:00 on a Christmas morning” sample originated from James Joyce’s 1914 short story, “The Dead.” Of that story’s connection to the song, Petrucci said: “There was this conflict with the character, getting up for Christmas and sort of losing the meaning and interest of it.”

altleftarrow:

Dream Theater - Solitary Shell

Quite a lovely song

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miguelthrashes:

Panic Attack - Dream Theater

I was never even too wild about this song on the album, but seeing it live was absolutely thrilling. So intense, man.

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silenceintherain:

This is Stream of Consciousness, by progressive metal band, Dream Theater, from the album “Train of Thought”.

The eloquence and might that is a Dream Theater song is out of this world. This instrumental is beautiful! Full of complexities everywhere. Beautiful guitars accompanied by a fantastic bassline, energetic and fast keyboards, and one incredible percussion. This is a Dream Theater instrumental. Even in name, this song is like thoughts from a deep mind. The album and title are similar in that aspect. I can go on, but enjoy this. Please.

shadodoeswathewants:

erotomania1928:

Song of the Day: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (2002)

This fucking song man, heavy fucking metal. B. Powerful, arpeggios from hell (fuck Malmsteen) Great lyrics about alcoholism and the 12 step. The Restoration breakdown section, when it just makes you want to thrash around the room like a moron. 

I love this song. It’s also one of the first Dream Theater songs that totally took me somewhere else away from my reality. The best thing about it though is that the music perfectly fits the lyrics and meaning of the song. 

Dream Theater-The Glass Prison

The first DT song I ever heard :,)

youremyguitarhero:

miguelthrashes:

let’s take a moment to appreciate one of my favorite Dream Theater songs and the first DT song i ever heard, that made me want to listen to them

The best thing to come out of Systematic Chaos. So fucking evil for a DT track. Also, this video is great.

magnetsandmiracles:

Space Dye-Vest-Dream Theater

wonderful

Ah, the song that ties Awake together in such a perfect way