Dream Theater
American progressive metal band
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| 2025 | Dream Theater planned to release the music video 'Midnight Messiah', directed by Mike Leonard. |
| 2025 | Dream Theater planned to release the single 'Night Terror' from the album Parasomnia |
| February 7 2025 | Parasomnia is released, with publications like Loudwire, Stereogum, and Ultimate Guitar naming it in their most anticipated albums of 2025. |
| February 7 2025 | Dream Theater releases their sixteenth studio album Parasomnia, which was highly anticipated by several music publications. |
| October 10 2024 | Dream Theater releases 'Night Terror' as the first single from their upcoming sixteenth studio album Parasomnia. |
| July 30 2024 | James LaBrie posts on Instagram confirming completion of vocals for the new album, using the hashtag 'DT16'. |
| June 26 2024 | Jordan Rudess announces on Instagram that all keyboard tracks have been recorded. |
| May 1 2024 | John Petrucci confirms completion of guitar tracks via YouTube video. |
| April 8 2024 | Dream Theater announced their '40th Anniversary Tour 2024 – 2025', marking Mike Portnoy's return and their first tour together in fourteen years, beginning with a month-long European leg in October. |
| April 2 2024 | John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy announce completion of writing and drum tracks for the new album. |
| February 2024 | Mike Portnoy posts pictures from DTHQ on Instagram, confirming the new Dream Theater album is 'officially underway'. |
| 2023 | Dream Theater released two additional live albums: 'Live at Madison Square Garden, 2010' and 'Distance over Time Demos (2018)'. |
| 2023 | Dream Theater released the music video 'Answering the Call', directed by Wayne Joyner. |
| 2023 | Dream Theater remastered and reissued 'The Making of Scenes From a Memory' CD |
| 2023 | Dream Theater remastered and reissued 'The Making of Falling into Infinity' CD |
| 2023 | When Dream and Day Unite Demos and Distance Over Time Demos were remastered and newly released. |
| November 17 2023 | The band announces the death of former lead vocalist Charlie Dominici at age 72. |
| October 25 2023 | Dream Theater announces the departure of Mike Mangini and reunion with Mike Portnoy after years of gradual reconciliation between Portnoy and individual band members. |
| August 2023 | John Petrucci mentions studio time for their sixteenth album is planned to begin in late 2023. |
| June 16 2023 | Started the Dreamsonic Tour, a travelling progressive metal festival featuring Dream Theater, Devin Townsend, and Animals as Leaders, which ended on July 26. |
| April 22 2023 | Dream Theater announced the first DREAMSONIC tour, starting in Cedar Park, Texas on June 16, 2023, with Devin Townsend and Animals As Leaders. This was Mike Mangini's last tour with the band. |
| 2022 | Dream Theater continued their live album releases with three recordings: '...And Beyond – Live in Japan 2017', 'Live in Berlin, 2019', and 'Live at Wacken, 2015'. |
| 2022 | Dream Theater released the music video 'Transcending Time', directed by Wayne Joyner. |
| 2022 | Dream Theater remastered and reissued two cover albums: The Number of the Beast and Made in Japan CDs. |
| 2022 | Multiple album demo collections were remastered and reissued, including The Majesty Demos, Images and Words Demos, Awake Demos, and Falling into Infinity Demos. |
| 2022 | Won a Grammy Award, marking their first Grammy win after three nominations. |
| April 20 2022 | Began a concert tour of Europe to promote the 'A View from the Top of the World' album, which ran until June 1. |
| April 3 2022 | Won their first Grammy Award when 'The Alien' received Best Metal Performance. |
| March 4 2022 | Mike Portnoy attended his first and only Dream Theater show as an audience member at the Beacon Theatre in New York City, which eventually led to his rejoining the band. |
| 2021 | Dream Theater released three music videos: 'The Alien', 'Invisible Monster', and 'Awaken the Master', directed by Wayne Joyner and William 'Wombat' Felch. |
| 2021 | Dream Theater remastered and reissued their cover of Master of Puppets album as a CD. |
| 2021 | Train of Thought Instrumental Demos were remastered and reissued. |
| 2021 | Dream Theater announced The Lost Not Forgotten Archives in collaboration with InsideOut Music, a project to reissue official bootlegs, demos, and rarities while introducing previously unreleased archival material. |
| October 22 2021 | Dream Theater released 'A View from the Top of the World', their fifteenth studio album, distributed by Inside Out Music. |
| October 22 2021 | Released the album 'A View from the Top of the World', supported by five singles: 'The Alien', 'Invisible Monster', 'Awaken the Master', 'Transcending Time', and 'Answering the Call'. |
| January 30 2021 | Dream Theater held a special streaming event 'Images, Words & Beyond Live in Japan', an online broadcast of a 2017 concert originally recorded for Japanese television. |
| 2020 | John Petrucci was listed as 'Best Prog Rock Guitarist in the World' by MusicRadar. |
| December 1 2020 | Dream Theater released a special Record Store Day exclusive and COVID-19 pandemic support single to help their touring crew during the pandemic period. |
| December 1 2020 | The band released the holiday single 'The Holiday Spirit Carries On' exclusively on Bandcamp, with proceeds benefiting their road crew. |
| November 27 2020 | Dream Theater released their ninth live album 'Distant Memories – Live in London', recorded at Hammersmith Apollo before the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| October 2020 | Dream Theater began recording sessions for their fifteenth studio album at DTHQ. |
| August 28 2020 | John Petrucci released his solo album 'Terminal Velocity', which was recorded at DTHQ and featured Mike Portnoy on drums, marking their first collaboration in ten years. |
| 2019 | Dream Theater performed at a festival show in Berlin during the Distance Over Time Tour, with a live CD of the performance newly released in 2022. |
| 2019 | Band begins a North American tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of their album 'Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory'. |
| February 22 2019 | Release of the album 'Distance Over Time', which receives widespread critical acclaim. |
| 2018 | Dream Theater released the single 'Untethered Angel' from their album Distance over Time |
| 2018 | Dream Theater recorded demos for the Distance Over Time album. |
| 2018 | Reached milestone of selling over 12 million records worldwide. |
| November 6 2018 | Inside Out officially announces the album 'Distance Over Time', confirming the release date of February 22, 2019. |
| June 2018 | Band begins writing the album, with collective musical compositions and lyrics contributed by multiple band members including Petrucci, LaBrie, Myung, and notably Mangini (who writes lyrics for the first time). |
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