DREAM THEATER guitarist John Petrucci is featured in a new interview with GuitarWorld.com. An excerpt is available below:

Petrucci: "Complacency is the enemy. In order to move forward and continue to try to do great things you have to constantly challenge yourself. We wanted each of these songs to pack a punch, and one of the ways for us to do that was to keep most of them pretty direct. In our case, that also meant trying to keep them below the six-minute mark. And I gotta tell you, that’s a challenge for us!"

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The clip below features a track-by-track interview with John Petrucci and vocalist James LaBrie for Dream Theater's new self titled album (with optional Italian subtitles courtesy of Angela e Giacomo Magnanelli):

Dream Theater and BraveWords are premiering 'Along For The Ride', a brand new track featured on their upcoming self-titled album.

Dream Theater – the band’s 12th studio release overall, and fourth with Roadrunner Records – will be released September 24th. The nine-track disc was recorded at Cove City Studio in Glen Cove, Long Island, with guitarist John Petrucci producing and Richard Chycki (RUSH) engineering and mixing. It’s the band’s second album with drummer Mike Mangini, and the first on which he was a part of the writing process from day one.

Dream Theater tracklisting:

'False Awakening Suite'

i. Sleep Paralysis

ii. Night Terrors

iii. Lucid Dream

'The Enemy Inside'

'The Looking Glass'

'Enigma Machine'

'The Bigger Picture'

'Behind The Veil'

'Surrender To Reason'

'Along For The Ride'

'Illumination Theory'

i. Paradoxe de la Lumière Noire

ii. Live, Die, Kill

iii. The Embracing Circle

iv. The Pursuit of Truth

v. Surrender, Trust & Passion

'The Enemy Inside' lyric video:

Dream Theater will be available in a wide range of distinctive versions, including standard and special edition CDs, 180 gram double LP, and a limited edition boxed set. For more details visit Dreamtheater.net.