When John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy and John Myung met at the world’s leading music school, Berklee College of Music, in 1985, no one could have imagined what they would create together in the years to come. Over the past four decades, Dream Theater has done it all, selling over 15 million records, winning a Grammy (for “The Alien“), topping charts all over the world, but most of all, being recognized as the band that elevated and established progressive metal as an important subgenre of the scene.
Their impressive discography includes milestones in the history of heavy metal, since among them are undisputed masterpieces that are not reduced to the legendary “Images And Words” (1992), “Awake” (1994), “Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory” (1999) and “Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence” (2002), but also include the more recent “The Astonishing” (2016) and “A View From The Top Of The World” (2021), that not only received critical acclaim from music experts and fans, but they were also huge artistic and commercial achievements.
And if the above were enough to characterize their upcoming performance at Release Athens 2025 as “highly anticipated”, Dream Theater return with new material, this time – after almost 15 years – together with Mike Portnoy, who besides being a jaw-dropping drummer and founding member of the group, was one of the main compositional cogs of the band’s golden era. “Night Terror“, the first sample from “Parasomnia“, the 16th album of their career, to be released on February 7th 2025, surpassed 1 million streams in the first 24 hours of its release, causing a frenzy among their diehard fans, who are about to celebrate four decades of incredible intensity and creativity with Petrucci, Portnoy, Myung, Labrie and Rudess.
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