When experienced via a high-fidelity FLAC playback system, the album transforms from a great collection of songs into an immersive sonic journey. It stands as a testament to the power of a real band playing together in a room, capturing a moment in time where distance was erased, and musical synergy reigned supreme.
: The opening track serves as a bridge between their classic Images and Words era and modern metal. In a high-bitrate FLAC format, the separation between Petrucci’s down-tuned riffs and Jordan Rudess’s atmospheric layering is crystalline. Dream Theater - Distance Over Time -2019- -FLAC...
Following the polarizing reception of their 2016 conceptual, orchestrated double album The Astonishing , Dream Theater deliberately shifted gears. The band isolated themselves for four months at Yonder Barn Studios in secluded upstate New York. This marked the first time since Train of Thought (2003) that the band wrote and recorded an entire album collaboratively in the same physical space. When experienced via a high-fidelity FLAC playback system,