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Name .:. Dream Theater - Parasomnia
Genre : Metal
Source : CDDA
Type .:. Album
Artist : Dream Theater
Label : Insideoutmusic (Sony Music)
Titel : Parasomnia
Tracks : 08
Playtime : 71:17
Size : 489,11MB
Encoder : FLAC 1.3.1
Quality : 903 kbps
[ Tracklist ]
01.In The Arms Of Morpheus 05:22
02.Night Terror 09:55
03.A Broken Man 08:30
04.Dead Asleep 11:06
05.Midnight Messiah 07:58
06.Are We Dreaming- 01:29
07.Bend The Clock 07:25
08.The Shadow Man Incident 19:32
Total 71:17 Min
A record called Parasomnia (InsideOut Music) which
explores many of the unusual behaviours and emotions
experienced during sleep, written by a band called
Dream Theater (a spelling which, due to my almost
painful levels of Englishness, never fails to make
me shudder) seems the most obvious pairing in the
world. The question of why it s taken until their
sixteenth full-length studio release for this to
happen is something for the band to explain but it s
here now, and in true Dream Theater tradition,
you re going to need time to absorb it fully.
The Boston prog pioneers have never been for those
with short attention spans and at over seventy
minutes in length, and covering phenomena such as
somnambulism and somniloquy (sleepwalking and sleep
talking), sleep paralysis, nightmares, and night
terrors, this is again most definitely the case
here.
Opening with the sounds of someone lying down and
drifting off to sleep, In the Arms of Morpheus
opens in a quiet, soporific manner before being
invaded by unsettling sound effects. Distorted eight
string djent tones and crashing drums shatter the
stillness, guitarist John Petrucci and drummer Mike
Portnoy (returning after an absence of well over a
decade) create a sense of claustrophobia before the
song moves between thrash and lighter style riffing,
all topped off with a typically skilful and emotive
guitar solo.
With a suitably creepy arachnoid riff and tumbling
drums, Night Terror is classic progressive thrash,
singer James LaBrie s vocals clear and sharp as
irrational time signatures creep in from beneath. A
playful Petrucci guitar solo along with Jordan
Rudess s keys and John Myung s bass lend the track
an almost Giallo cinema feeling while at another
point it gives you the rather unnerving sense that
thousands of spiders might just be scurrying across
the floor towards you at that very moment.
A Broken Man focuses on sleep disturbances
stemming from a combat veteran suffering PTSD.
Viciously angular and discordant atonality levels
out into more intricate drum patterns and off-kilter
timings before LaBrie adds some warmth and humanity
to the machine-like precision musicianship. A
Goblin-style section then metamorphoses into
something quite jazzy before the heaviness returns
to see the song through to its powerful and
emotional conclusion.
Based on true events Dead Asleep tells the story
of a Welshman who in 2009 accidentally strangled his
wife while asleep. Dreaming someone had broken into
their caravan, the man believed he was putting the
intruder in a headlock. He wasn t. He was acquitted
due to having a history of sleep-related issues and
the song reflects the seriousness of the case in a
dark progressive metal masterclass.
Midnight Messiah is about someone who feels most
alive inside their dreams and looks forward to
falling asleep so they can become the titular
character. Portnoy s first lyrical contribution
since 2009, the song begins with a moody arpeggio
and spindly staccato riffs before displaying big
Metallica and Judas Priest vibes at certain points.
Bursts of speed accentuate the slower drama as once
again Petrucci steals the show with another virtuoso
guitar performance.
Are We Dreaming? is a hushed and whispered
church-like interlude before the introspective and
almost ballad-like Bend the Clock hits in a
different way to the rest of the album. Musically
uplifting with bittersweet lyrics, this cut asks if
the dreamer could turn back the clock to a life
without night traumas, would things be better? Just
shy of twenty minutes, the multi-faceted finale The
Shadow Man Incident tells of a sleeper s
confrontation with an apparition who may or may not
be in the room with them. Military snare rolls, a
Latin-style section, unconventional chords, and
cinematic orchestration all converge in one glorious
finale that will leave you far from a state of
drowsiness.
Like most Theater albums, Parasomnia works its
finest magic with total immersion, absent exterior
distractions. Any form of withdrawal from the real
world or social media, no matter how briefly,
requires effort, but do it here and you will be
rewarded for sure. Complex song structures,
asymmetrical and complicated time signatures and
typically ludicrous levels of musicianship all come
together to strike a delicate but powerful balance
on yet another Dream Theater masterwork.
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