DREAM THEATER released their twelfth studio album - called simply 'Dream Theater' via Roadrunner Records.

This is is the first DREAM THEATER album with Mike Mangini wholly integrated in the creative process from the start; as John Petrucci programmed the drum parts on A Dramatic Turn of Events for the writing process, although Mangini was subsequently recorded playing parts that he and the band (after listening to them) thought suitable for the final version.

Commenting on Mangini's work, Petrucci said:

"When people hear the drumming on this album, they’re gonna be pretty freaked out. On the last album, he did a great job, but he wasn’t there for the writing process and he was interpreting drum parts that I had programmed.

Even though he used his creativity, of course, to change them up and do his thing, I feel like now he’s just Mike Mangini unleashed. It's all him. It's all his creativity, all his decisions and ideas - and man, the guy's an animal."

The album features an instrumental, the band's first album to do so since Train of Thought in 2003.

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