


Alas, Dream Theater may be back with an apology letter in hand, but it is accepted with a reluctant sigh.įor the most part, the band dynamic is solid. There’s no way in hell that the band going back to a heavier sound and the shortest runtime since 1992’s Images and Words didn’t have anything to do with the bloated, ballad-friendly train wreck that became known as The Astonishing for all the wrong reasons. Distance Over Time is a rare case of an album that serves as an explicit response to the one before it. Review Summary: The self-titled album but heavierĭream Theater albums have always served as expansions or contrasts to their predecessors (See the heavy-light alternations that dominated their Portnoy eras).
