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Greater dynamic range, allowing listeners to clearly isolate John Myung’s intricate bass lines from John Petrucci’s wall of heavy rhythm guitars. Dream-Theater-Parasomnia-WEB-2025-ENTiTLED.rar
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The album represents a "special new chapter" for the band, reuniting Portnoy with John Petrucci, John Myung, James LaBrie, and Jordan Rudess. Fans have widely celebrated this as a "return to form," noting that Portnoy's presence brings back a cohesive, distinctive energy that some felt was missing in recent years.
Dream Theater launched the in support of the album, kicking off September 5, 2025, at Reading, Pennsylvania's Santander Performing Arts Center. The band performed the entire Parasomnia album in full during select shows, a decision that guitarist John Petrucci described as "a blast" even though "it might be a little self-indulgent".
Interestingly, while Portnoy returns as a performer, this is also the first album with Portnoy that does not feature him as co-producer since (1997), highlighting a new dynamic within the band's creative process.