DREAM THEATER Finally Turns Scenes From A Memory Into A Novel

Dream Theater‘s traditional 1999 idea album Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Reminiscence has lastly been became a full-on novel by writer Peter Orullian. The novel was written and edited in shut collaboration with Dream Theater, and can arrive simply in time for the album’s 25^th birthday on October 26. No phrase on what the chapter for “The Dance of Eternity” will seem like, however I am assuming it’s going to simply be an enormous checklist of time signatures.

Pre-orders for the Scenes From A Reminiscence novel are available here. The next is a synopsis of the novel: “Nicholas Santori, a sound-engineer who makes a speciality of audio restoration, has had troubling goals all his life. With the anniversary of his daughter’s dying, these goals have gotten worse, threatening the steadiness of his household and maybe his personal security. After receiving cryptic messages about his goals from his clairvoyant son, Nicholas seeks assist from an eccentric hypnotherapist with questionable intentions.

“Throughout regression Nicholas learns that in a former life he was a younger lady named Victoria Web page, that she was murdered, and that her case was by no means actually solved. Believing he can finish his nightmares if he can clear up Victoria’s homicide, he finds retired detective Colin Murphy, who’s been obsessive about Victoria’s case since he noticed her mendacity lifeless seventy years in the past in the home the place Murphy now lives. Collectively, they hope to resolve the chilly case, whereas somebody is desperately making an attempt to cease them.

“However fixing the homicide is simply half the story. Who was Victoria Web page? Who have been the brothers who vied for her consideration—one an addict, gambler, and idealist; the opposite a politician with connections to the mob and the notorious Bugsy Siegel? Who was their father—Metropolis’s most ruthless industrialist? And the way did all these inextricably and dangerously related lives result in the homicide of a caring younger lady who did nothing however share her inventive present and deal with others with an unusual grace?”

As for the primary new Dream Theater album with drummer Mike Portnoy since 2009, it is coming! The band is presently wrapping things up in the studio and is aiming for an early 2025 launch date.