Progressive music icons Dream Theater announce new live album
With the US tour underway and playing to excited fans across the country, Grammy-winning, progressive music titans Dream Theater are releasing a new live release on November 28th via their longtime label partner Inside Out Music/Sony Music. “Quarantième: Live à Paris” documents the the iconic lineup of James LaBrie [vocals], John Petrucci [guitar], John Myung [bass], Jordan Rudess [keyboards] and Mike Portnoy’s [drums] sold-out show from Paris, France on their 40th Anniversary headline tour of Europe. The release contains a setlist that spans the band’s entire career with classics like Metropolis Pt. 1, Panic Attack, Octavarium, and Pull Me Under represented among other fan favorites. The show was recorded in front of a capacity crowd at the Adidas Arena. To coincide with the announcement, the band is releasing the live version of Overture 1928 / Strange Déjà Vu via all Digital Services Providers and a video of the performance which you can watch below:
“From the moment we announced our 40th anniversary tour, we knew it would be a very special event for both the band and our fans and must be captured. With this release, our performance in Paris is presented so beautifully in both stunning audio and video and really encapsulates this momentous occasion for all to enjoy,” explains John Petrucci.
“We always knew this tour would be unforgettable because not only were we celebrating 4 decades since forming the band, but also the reunion of the band’s classic lineup. The excitement and emotions between us and our fans at each and every show were palpable and totally off the charts! The night captured here in Paris was an epic evening that we can now share with the whole world to celebrate this incredible tour,” adds Mike Portnoy.
Presented in several formats, with artwork by longtime collaborator Hugh Syme, “Quarantième: Live à Paris” will be available as a Limited Deluxe 3CD+3Blu-ray artbook, including 68-pages of photos and artwork as well as an additional Blu-ray of bonus material. It will also be available as a Special Edition 3CD+2Blu-ray Digipak, Limited Deluxe 180g 4LP boxset & digitally. The Blu-ray includes the full show with Dolby Atmos, 5.1 Surround Sound, & high-resolution stereo audio.
“Quaranti“From the moment we announced our 40th anniversary tour, we knew it would be a very special event for both the band and our fans and must be captured. With this release, our performance in Paris is presented so beautifully in both stunning audio and video and really encapsulates this momentous occasion for all to enjoy,” explains John Petrucci.
“We always knew this tour would be unforgettable because not only were we celebrating 4 decades since forming the band, but also the reunion of the band’s classic lineup. The excitement and emotions between us and our fans at each and every show were palpable and totally off the charts! The night captured here in Paris was an epic evening that we can now share with the whole world to celebrate this incredible tour,” adds Mike Portnoy.
Presented in several formats, with artwork by longtime collaborator Hugh Syme, “Quarantième: Live à Paris” will be available as a Limited Deluxe 3CD+3Blu-ray artbook, including 68-pages of photos and artwork as well as an additional Blu-ray of bonus material. It will also be available as a Special Edition 3CD+2Blu-ray Digipak, Limited Deluxe 180g 4LP boxset & digitally. The Blu-ray includes the full show with Dolby Atmos, 5.1 Surround Sound, & high-resolution stereo audio.
“Quarantième: Live à Paris” Tracklist
CD1
1. Metropolis Pt. 1
2. Overture 1928
3. Strange Déjà Vu
4. The Mirror
5. Panic Attack
6. Barstool Warrior
7. Hollow Years
8. Constant Motion
9. As I Am
CD2
1. Orchestral Overture
2. Night Terror
3. Under A Glass Moon
4. This Is The Life
5. Vacant
6. Stream of Consciousness
7. Octavarium
CD3
1. Home
2. The Spirit Carries On
3. Pull Me Under
Blu-ray 1
1. Metropolis Pt. 1
2. Overture 1928
3. Strange Déjà Vu
4. The Mirror
5. Panic Attack
6. Barstool Warrior
7. Hollow Years
8. Constant Motion
9. As I Am
Blu-ray 2
1. Orchestral Overture
2. Night Terror
3. Under A Glass Moon
4. This Is The Life
5. Vacant
6. Stream of Consciousness
7. Octavarium
8. Home
9. The Spirit Carries On
10. Pull Me Under
“Quarantième: Live à Paris” is now available for pre-order HERE
Beyond selling millions of records worldwide and gathering a billion-plus streams, Dream Theater have quietly evolved into progressive metal trailblazers over the course of an unprecedented journey earmarked by one unforgettable milestone after another.
The career-launching “Images & Words” graced Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Metal Albums of All-Time,” while “Awake” claimed #1 on Guitar World’s “Superunknown: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994.” In addition to emerging as Classic Rock’s “15th Greatest Concept Album,” “Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory” toppled a fan-voted Rolling Stone poll as the “Number One All-Time Progressive Rock Album.”
They shook the charts with three Top 10 debuts on the Billboard 200 and headlined sold out shows everywhere from Radio City Music Hall to Red Rocks Amphitheatre. The band garnered a GRAMMY® Award in the category of “Best Metal Performance” for “The Alien” from 2021’s A View From The Top of the World. Of the latter, PROG raved, “Not just proper Dream Theater, then, but something ever-so-slightly bigger and better,” andConsequence attested, “A View From the Top of the World shows that the quintet is still offering music that is easily on par with their earlier efforts.”
Now, Dream Theater have returned to their roots as James LaBrie [vocals], John Petrucci [guitar], John Myung [bass], and Jordan Rudess [keyboards] reunite with Mike Portnoy [drums] during their fortieth anniversary. Simultaneously, these five old friends enter a bold new era fuelled by some of the most focused, formidable, and fiery music of their career. They’re harnessing the memories of the past and the promise of the future in order to make the most of the present. Ultimately, the group’s sixteenth full-length album, Parasomnia [Inside Out Music/Sony Music], represents both where they came from and where they’re going as not only bandmates, but as brothers.
InsideOutMusic is the leading label worldwide for progressive music and is part of the Century Media Label Group, a division of Sony Music.
