{"id":3630,"date":"2011-10-07T11:46:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T18:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3630"},"modified":"2011-10-07T11:46:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T18:46:49","slug":"dream-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/10\/dream-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"DREAM THEATER"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-DREAM-THEATER.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3631\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-DREAM-THEATER.jpg\" alt=\"DREAM THEATER\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-DREAM-THEATER.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-DREAM-THEATER-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>D<\/strong><strong>REAM THEATER<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>A Dramatic Turn of Events<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Roadrunner]<\/p>\n<p>Legions of Dream Theater fans were dismayed when drummer (and founding member) Mike Portnoy and the band parted ways last year. Never fear\u2014with new drummer Mike Mangini behind the kit, the veteran prog-metal ensemble sounds re-energized, engaged and focused on songwriting in ways not heard since 2002\u2019s <em>Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence<\/em>. On the harder side of the ledger, songs such as \u201cOn the Backs of Angels\u201d and \u201cBreaking All Illusions\u201d sport the usual storm-trooper beats, doomsday riffage and virtuosic solos\u2014but melody trumps even the flashiest pyrotechnics. On the other hand, ballads such as the Queen-like \u201cFar From Heaven\u201d and the acoustic-guitar driven \u201cBeneath the Surface\u201d come off as islands of calm among the portentous lyrical themes and musical carnage. If there\u2019s one characteristic that\u2019s always elevated Dream Theater above its prog-rock peers, it\u2019s band chemistry. On <em>A Dramatic Turn of Events<\/em>, even after the trade of one Mike for another, that chemistry remains intact. \u2013Russell Hall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DREAM THEATER A Dramatic Turn of Events [Roadrunner] Legions of Dream Theater fans were dismayed when drummer (and founding member) Mike Portnoy and the band parted ways last year. Never fear\u2014with new drummer Mike Mangini behind the kit, the veteran prog-metal ensemble sounds re-energized, engaged and focused on songwriting in ways not heard since 2002\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[2494,196,2493,2482,2495],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3632,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions\/3632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}