Co-founding drummer discusses how easy 16th album Parasomnia came together, his sadness when he thought a reunion might not happen, and how he’s not quite the control freak some people think he is ...

There is one particular approach to the music that has allowed them to remain consistently relevant through 40 years as a ...

Crew and venue made haste to get the show back on track after something knocked out the power at MGM Northfield. Perhaps the ...

This week in concerts, the sun is shining and the music's playing with shows from Gramatik, Dream Theater, Oh He Dead and ...

Looking back, Petrucci still regards The Astonishing as something that Dream Theater simply had to get off their collective chest. “From beginning to end it took three years of planning ...

The band earns its first leader since 2016's The Astonishing. By Kevin Rutherford Dream Theater returns to No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Hard Rock Albums chart for the first time in almost a decade ...

When news broke back in October 2023 that Dream Theater had reunited with Mike Portnoy, it was immediately apparent that now former drummer Mike Mangini was the odd man out. He’d said he “understood” ...

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Dream Theater have never been what you might call a straight-up rock and roll band. Even at the start of the Long Island quintet’s recording career, 36 years ago, their debut album, When Dream ...