Dream Theater's new album 'Distance Over Time' to arrive in February 2019

The album arrives four years after the release of 2015's 'The Astonishing' and was teased via an alternate reality game that led fans on a treasure hunt to reveal details of the album.
PUBLISHED NOV 5, 2018

Dream Theater will be back next year with their 14th studio album, 'Distance Over Time', set for a February 2019 release. The announcement comes three years after their 2015 release 'The Astonishing', a record many have called the prog metal legends' most ambitious effort to date, although it received a mixed response from critics. It will surely be interesting to see where the highly technical performers go from here.

As Consequence of Sound notes, the band launched an alternate reality game that led fans on a treasure hunt to reveal details of the album, and now most of the details have been revealed, including the aforementioned title, the month of release (an exact date is yet to be announced officially), the album artwork, and a video teaser that gives us the first taste of the new music. The 36-second clip is set to the background image of a skull held by a robotic hand - a futuristic reimagining of the iconic "Alas, poor Yorick" dramatic monologue from Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' - which also features on the album art of the record.

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