WITH A SPECTACULAR CONCERT IN LONDON’S O2 ARENA, AND NEXT WEEK THEY ARE ARRIVAL AT THE ZAGREB ARENA
Dream Theater, a cult metal band, started a big world tour on the occasion of their 40th anniversary with a three-hour concert in London’s O2 Arena, and the spectacle is also being prepared on October 29 in Arena Zagreb
Zagreb, October 22, 2024 – The legends of progressive metal Dream Theater held the first of a series of concerts as part of the large world tour “An Evening with Dream Theater 2024 – 2025” last weekend in the sold-out London O2 Arena. where they celebrate 40 years of work. At the three-hour spectacular concert, the band performed a set list of as many as 18 songs divided into two acts, and they closed the concert with a half-hour encore. They delighted the fans with six songs that they haven’t performed in at least ten years, and some of them haven’t been played since the mid-2000s. A packed auditorium in London had the unique opportunity to hear live for the first time the songs from the just-announced new album “Parasomnia”, which will be released in February 2025.
This historic concert was also the first where one of the founders and original drummer Mike Portnoy joined the band after 14 years of absence. Dream Theater is preparing an equally epic metal spectacle for Tuesday, October 29, when they will perform in Arena Zagreb. The tour, which started on October 20, will continue in Europe until November 24, after which the band will go to South and North America, in order to return to Europe again next year. Tickets for this metal spectacle can be purchased through the Eventim system and at all Eventim physical points of sale, ticket prices range from 35 to 99 euros. Dream Theater additionally offers two types of VIP packages, gold and platinum, which include, depending on the package, meeting and taking pictures with the band, picks, posters, bags and much more, and the packages can be purchased at this link. The concert starts at 19:30.
This is how the golden line-up of the band comes to Zagreb, consisting of John Petrucci on guitar, James LaBrie on vocals, John Myung on bass and Jordan Rudess on keyboards, along with Mike Portonoy. This line-up just finished the new album “Parasomnia”, the 16th studio album and the first with Portnoy after “Black Clouds & Silver Linings” from 2009. “Parasomnia” is released on February 7, 2025, by Inside Out Music/Sony Music. The album was produced by John Petrucci, engineered by James ‘Jimmy T’ Meslin and mixed by Andy Sneap. Hugh Syme returns once again to lend his creative vision to the album cover.
From the opening track “In The Arms Of Morpheus” to the finale “The Shadow Man Incident”, Dream Theater returns on the new album with a collection of songs that showcase the very things that have earned the band a loyal following over the past four decades. At 71 minutes long, “Parasomnia” takes the listener on a musical journey that has become synonymous with the band since the beginning of their career. Parasomnia is a term for disruptive sleep disorders including sleepwalking, sleep paralysis, and night terrors. Songs like “A Broken Man”, “Dead Asleep”, “Midnight Messiah” and “Bend The Clock” build on the themes of the album’s title. The first single, “Night Terror” is a musical thrill captured in ten minutes of listening. The music video for the track – directed by Mike Leonard – is now available and can be viewed here: youtu.be/2IPT60hvGw4.
In addition to selling millions of records worldwide and amassing more than a billion streams, Dream Theater have quietly evolved into progressive metal pioneers during an unprecedented journey marked by one unforgettable milestone after another. Their career-launching album “Images & Words” graced the cover of Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time,” while “Awake” won the top spot on “Superunknown: 50 Legendary Albums That Defined 1994.” The fans voted for the album “Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory” from 1999 as the “number one progressive rock album of all time” in a 2012 Rolling Stone poll, and Classic Rock ranked it “15. the greatest concept album”.
They rocked the charts with three Top 10 debuts on the Billboard 200 with sold-out concerts everywhere from Radio City Music Hall to Red Rocks Amphitheater. The band won a Grammy Award for “Best Metal Performance” for “The Alien” from 2021’s A View From The Top of the World. Now Dream Theater have returned to their roots as vocalist James LaBrie, guitarist John Petrucci, bassist John Myung and keyboardist Jordan Rudess reunited with drummer Mike Portnoy for their 40th anniversary. At the same time, these five old friends are entering a bold new era fueled by music with perhaps the most focus, intensity and fire of their career to date. Dream Theater use the memories of the past and the promise of the future to make the most of the present. Ultimately, the world tour itself represents where they came from and where they are going, not just as bandmates, but as brothers.
MORE ABOUT DREAM THEATER:
www.dreamtheater.net
www.facebook.com/dreamtheater
twitter.com/dreamtheaternet
www.instagram.com/dreamtheaterofficial/
CHARM MUSIC CROATIA:
www.facebook.com/charmmusiccroatia
www.instagram.com/charmmusiccroatia