Watch This Video of Behind the Scenes of DREAM THEATER’s “The Astonishing” Tour

By Annie on March 25, 2016

Dream Theater 2015 (Photo credits: Jimmy Fontaine)

A four-minute video which takes you behind the scenes of Dream Theater‘s The Astonishing tour can be seen below. Watch the team at Lucion Media help Dream Theater recreate The Astonishing concept album on stage every night.

The Astonishing was released on January 29 via Roadrunner. The CD was made available in a wide range of distinctive versions, including standard 2-CD set, 4-LP vinyl box set and a limited-edition deluxe box set.

Recorded at Cove City Sound Studios in Glen Cove, New York, with guitarist John Petrucci producing, studio luminary Richard Chycki (Aerosmith, Rush) engineering/mixing and legendary arranger, composer and conductor David Campbell orchestrating, The Astonishing paints a tale of a retro-futurist post-apocalyptic dystopia ruled by medieval style feudalism. It’s a place aching for a Chosen One to rise above the noise and defeat an Empire defined by the endless drone of noise machines and the illusion of safety in bland conformity.

Dream Theater keyboardist Jordan Rudess told La Grosse Radio about The Astonishing: “Well, the story is really about hope and it’s about the power of music for healing and bringing good energy and good spirit to people. It was a story that was written by John Petrucci. He originally thought of it, the seed of the idea, about two and a half years ago. And a little over a year ago, he presented it to the band as an idea to do our concept album, and we were all very excited about it; it seemed really great. So after he presented it to us, then we started to work on all the music for it.“