Dream Theater "Distance Over Time (Limited Edition Digipak, USA, InsideOut Music, 19075925442)"

Distance Over Time is the fourteenth studio album by American progressive metal band Dream Theater, released on February 22, 2019, and the band's first release on Inside Out Music. Distance Over Time was announced alongside a tour of North America during which Dream Theater would support the new album and celebrate the 20th anniversary of its fifth studio album, Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory (1999). On December 7, 2018, the lead single "Untethered Angel" and its music video were released. The second single, "Fall into the Light", was released on January 11, 2019. The third single, "Paralyzed", and its accompanying video were released on February 8, 2019. It is the band's most successful album chart-wise to date, taking top 10 positions in 19 countries (including going to number one in Germany and Switzerland).

Musically, Dream Theater decided to create a "tight and focused" album with a heavier sound than its previous album, The Astonishing (2016). "At Wit's End" was the first piece that was written and the writing process for the whole album took 18 days, making Distance Over Time their fastest written album to date. The band compared the speed and style of Distance Over Time's writing process to that of its 2003 album, Train of Thought.

Dream Theater recorded the album in a cabin in Monticello, New York.

At just under 57 minutes long, not including a bonus track, Distance Over Time is Dream Theater's first studio album with a run time under one hour in length since 1992's Images and Words, and their shortest since the band's 1989 debut, When Dream and Day Unite. It is Dream Theater's third studio album to not feature any songs longer than ten minutes, after When Dream and Day Unite and 2016's The Astonishing.

"Room 137" is Dream Theater's only song with lyrics written by Mike Mangini.

Similar to his previous Dream Theater album artwork, art director Hugh Syme was once again criticized for his use of stock imagery for the Distance Over Time artwork. Fans quickly pointed out the artwork was literally just two stock pictures put together.

The stock imagery usage in conjuncture with the artwork's simple concept has led to many sightings of similar looking designs in various media. Just 12 days after Dream Theater revealed the Distance Over Time artwork, The New York Times Magazine used a nearly identical image of a robot arm holding a human skull for a cover story titled What Will Become of Us?

Tracklist:

1. Untethered Angel 06:14  
2. Paralyzed 04:17  
3. Fall into the Light 07:04
4. Barstool Warrior 06:43   
5. Room 137 04:23
6. S2N 06:21   
7. At Wit's End 09:20
8. Out of Reach 04:04  
9. Pale Blue Dot 08:25  
10. Viper King 04:00  

Time:  01:00:51

The original title of the album was meant to be "Velocity".

24-page booklet.

Official videos:

- Untethered Angel

- Fall into the Light

- Paralyzed

Recording information:

Recorded at Yonderbarn Studios in Monticello, New York, United States.

Vocals recorded at Mixland in Midhurst, Ontario, Canada.

Mixed at the Mix Room in Burbank, California, United States.

Mastered at Baker Mastering in Calabasas, California, United States.

James "Jimmy T" Meslin – recording

Richard Chycki – vocal recording, additional vocal production

Ben Grosse – mixing

Paul Pavao – mixing assistant

Tom Baker – mastering

Hugh Syme – art direction, illustration and design

Mark Maryanovich – photography