Album Rating: 4.0

John Petrucci is one of the very best in the business, agreed

Album Rating: 4.0

Ranked:



1) Morpheus / Night Terror

2) Are We Dreaming? / Bend The Clock

3) A Broken Man

4) The Shadow Man Incident

5) Dead Asleep

6) Midnight Messiah (still a good song)

Album Rating: 3.5

NIGHT TERROR



HYSTERIA



NOCTURNAL TRIAL BY FIIIIIRRE

Album Rating: 4.0

What is crazy to me is the album starts with a Meshuggah groove, and then there’s eventually a classic rock riff driving Bend the Clock, and yet it all works together fine.

Album Rating: 4.0

'insane that this record is 71 minutes long.....feels a hell of a lot shorter'



That's what grabbed me about this one too.

I've gotten to know this record front to back much faster than a typical DT release.

Highly listenable and Portnoy still brings a special touch to these songs; now I'm curious how the staying power will be how often I'll want to return to this.

Album Rating: 4.0

Worn down, wearing thin

Hellish dreams, tormenting scenes

Shadows looming

Album Rating: 3.5

Alright, might as well finish off the discography (again).

Parashitnia

Album Rating: 4.0

hawks dude you just keep on laying your ghosts to rest haha

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah probably their best since Black Clouds.

Album Rating: 4.0

Hawks probably secretly loves DT but since he created this anti-DT persona sometime ago he just keeps playing the role.

Album Rating: 4.5

"Yeah probably their best since Black Clouds."



Yeah. I totally agree.

Hawks probably secretly loves DT but since he created this anti-DT persona sometime ago he just keeps playing the role.

Album Rating: 4.0

It’s alright man your secrets safe with me.

Album Rating: 4.0

in portnoy's drumeo interview he talks about what the extracurriculars he does and doesn't do after rejoining.



tldw it seems they gave him back complete autonomy over the setlists, and he also apparently runs their merch again. however, despite co-producing all their albums with petrucci before his departure, petrucci made it clear he would continue producing their albums on his own and portnoy had to agree to that in order to rejoin.

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

Sounds interesting...

Album Rating: 3.5

Pretty much explains why the production is still mostly bleh.

Album Rating: 4.0

looking forward to see what the setlist will look like for the Parasomnia tour starting in the Fall......you can bet that none of the non-Parasomnia songs that are in the 40th Anniversary tour will be played (maybe Pull Me Under)......they did say they will play the album in its entirety

Album Rating: 3.5

Bend the Clock and Night Terror are great but the rest kinda floats by. Fun album nonetheless though!

Album Rating: 3.5

Feel pretty comfortable saying Dead Asleep may be their most boring song since, idk, The Answer Lies Within? Eleven minutes and for what? There's no colorful songwriting there.