DREAM THEATER's new self-titled album – 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.

Keyboardist Jordan Rudess recently discussed the album track-by-track with Music Radar. An excerpt is available below:

For Rudess, whose company Wizdom Music has introduced a whole host of groundbreaking music-making apps, the recording of the new album gave him a chance to explore a broad range of sonic tools.

"I really get to go crazy with sounds in the studio," he says. "The software that I used the most is Omnisphere by Spectrasonics. It has a well of beautiful, amazing sounds – you can never get bored with it. The other piece of software that I used a lot was Camel Audio’s Alchemy, which is probably the most amazing software synthesizer I’ve ever heard. It has such a great library of sounds. For piano sounds, I used Ivory Synthogy. That’s my go-to software – the Omnisphere, the Alchemy and Ivory. For some strings parts, I’ll use Vienna Strings. I also use Kontakt by Native Instruments for certain sounds. Basically, I have a big party in the studio with my toys. It’s very different from when I’m on the road and I have to consolidate everything."

Go to thsi location for the complete track breakdown.

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.

Dream Theater follows the band’s 2011 acclaimed release A Dramatic Turn Of Events which garnered the band their first Grammy Award nomination (in the Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance category) – proved one of Dream Theater’s most successful, making top 10 chart debuts in 14 countries, including our own Billboard 200. With total sales exceeding 10 million albums and DVDs worldwide, Dream Theater have long stood among the upper echelon of hard rock giants. The band will tour the globe extensively throughout 2013-2014 with European dates for January – February 2013 already announced.