Dream Theater - Lost Not Forgotten Archives: Distance Over Time Demos (2018)Double vinyl LP pressing + CD edition, Housed in gatefold jacket. The latest in the Lost Not Forgotten Archives, Distance Over Time Demos (2018) documents the writing sessions for Dream Theater's fourteenth studio album. Presented here in the original order in which the tracks were written and recorded, this release gives a fascinating glimpse into the DT creative process.

Dave Weckl on drums

"There's something affirming and disheartening about it

Hedgley the hedgehog is too spiky for Norrie

more mid paced

The way Pancho Vladigerov incorporated these folk-music themes into his concert pieces shows not only his affinity for them but also suggests that he felt something of a calling to promulgate and champion the folk-traditions of his central European homeland

sing and entertain the whole family in these festive holiday vignettes

No drum machine clattering in the background amidst tape hiss and four-track grime here-this is a fully realized

Their lives changed abruptly at 13 when their father

hypnotic and hits you in all the right places at once

but he's even more shocked when the girl

their voices growing richer and stronger as they accrue experience

Digitally re-mastered