Dream Theater to Tour of North America, Kicks Off February 2nd

Tickets and VIP Packages Now Available at www.dreamtheater.net

(New York, NY) – Following the recent success of their 15^th studio album A View From The Top Of The World, two-time GRAMMY-nominated and millions-selling progressive music titans Dream Theater are announcing the rescheduled dates for the recently-postponed Top Of The World Tour. The dates will now kick off in Mesa, AZ on February 2^nd and run 7 weeks before ending in Austin, TX on March 21^st. The tour will also make stops in Los Angeles, CA; Quebec, QC; New York, NY and Dallas, TX among others and will mark the first live performances of music from the band’s latest release A View From The Top Of The World. Arch Echo will be the opener on all dates in the United States and Falset will be the opener on all of the dates in Canada. Information on tickets for all upcoming shows as well as VIP packages can be found at www.dreamtheater.net.

 

The complete schedule for the first leg of North American dates for the Top Of The World Tour are:

Feb 2^nd – Mesa, AZ – Mesa Arts Center

Feb 4^th – El Cajon, CA – The Magnolia

Feb 5^th – Los Angeles, CA – Microsoft Theater

Feb 6^th – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater 

Feb 8^th – Seattle, WA – Showare Center

Feb 10^th – Salt Lake City, UT – Mavericks Center

Feb 12^th – Denver, CO – Paramount Theater 

Feb 15^th – St. Louis, MO – Stifel Theater 

Feb 16^th – Cincinnati, OH – Icon

Feb 18^th – Minneapolis, MN – State Theater

Feb 19^th – Milwaukee, WI – Miller High Life

Feb 20^th – Chicago, IL – Chicago Theatre

Feb 22^nd – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore

Feb 23^rd – Akron, OH – Goodyear Theater 

Feb 25^th – Boston, MA – Wang Theater at Boch Center

Feb 26^th – Quebec, QC – Grand Theatre de Quebec

Feb 27^th – Ottawa, ON – National Arts Center

Mar 1^st – Montreal, QC – Place Bell

Mar 2^nd – Toronto, ON – Meridian Hall

Mar 4^th – New York, NY – Beacon Theater

Mar 5^th – Wallingford, CT – Oakdale Theater

Mar 6^th – Washington, DC – Warner Theater 

Mar 8^th – Philadelphia, PA – The Met

Mar 9^th – Red Bank, NJ – Count Basie

Mar 11^th – Raleigh, NC – Raleigh Memorial Auditorium

Mar 12^th – Atlanta, GA – Roxy

Mar 13^th – Nashville, TN – The Opry

Mar 15^th – Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Hotel at Universal Orlando

Mar 16^th – St. Petersburg, FL – Mahaffey Theater

Mar 18^th – Houston, TX – Bayou Music Center

Mar 19^th – Dallas, TX – Bomb Factory

Mar 21^st – Austin, TX – ACL Live at The Moody Theater

Dream Theater released A View From The Top Of The World in October and the release week saw the album top the charts hitting #1 on the Current Hard Music Charts, #2 on the Current Rock Albums Charts and also debuted at #52 on the Billboard 200. The album also shot to #1 on the iTunes Store Top Albums Metal chart, #1 on the Top Rock Albums, reached #4 on All Genres iTunes Top Albums and hit #2 on the Amazon Best Sellers in Rock (CD format) only to be topped by The Beatles reissue of Let It Be on release day. Dream Theater released 3 music videos from the album so far: an animated video for album opener “The Alien” (https://youtu.be/V462IsOV3js), a video for the first official single “Invisible Monster” (https://youtu.be/s0Wmg7Tq4Pk), and a frenetic, high-definition CGI marvel from long-time collaborator Wayne Joyner for “Awaken The Master” (https://youtu.be/zeOkeoXyt-4). A View From The Top Of The World is now available everywhere music is sold and streamed and is also available for order here: https://dream-theater.lnk.to/AViewFromTheTopOfTheWorld.

Dream Theater – comprised of James LaBrie, John Petrucci, Jordan Rudess, John Myung and Mike Mangini – was in the middle of a sold-out world tour in support of their last release Distance Over Time and the 20^th anniversary of Scenes From A Memory when a Global Pandemic brought the world to a stop. The musicians found themselves at home with LaBrie in Canada and the rest of the group in the States. As fate would have it, they’d just finished construction on DTHQ (Dream Theater Headquarters) —a combination live recording studio, rehearsal space, control room, equipment storage, and creative hive. With LaBrie in Canada, he initially wrote with the band via ZOOM on a monitor in DTHQ. In March 2021, he flew down to New York, quarantined, and recorded his vocals face-to-face with Petrucci. The album ultimately threaded together lean and uncompromising hooks with tried-and-true technical proficiency.

L to R:  John Petrucci,  Mike Mangini,  James LaBrie,  John Myung,  Jordan Rudess 

Photo Credit: Rayon Richards

About Dream Theater: 

Progressive metal pioneers Dream Theater— James LaBrie (Vocals), John Petrucci (Guitars), Jordan Rudess (Keyboards), John Myung (Bass), and Mike Mangini (Drums) — share a unique bond with one of the most passionate fan bases around the globe as evidenced by their two GRAMMY® Award nominations and 15 million records sold worldwide. The 1992 opus Images & Words received a gold certification and landed on Rolling Stone’s coveted “100 Greatest Metal Albums of All-Time.” Guitar World placed the follow-up Awake at #1 on “Superunknown: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994.” 1996’s A Change of Seasons notably soundtracked NBC’s coverage of Downhill Skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Fans voted the 1999 Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory the “Number One All-Time Progressive Rock Album” in a 2012 Rolling Stone poll. Not to mention, it ranked as the “15^th Greatest Concept Album” by Classic Rock.  2009 saw Black Clouds & Silver Linings crash the Billboard Top 200 at #6 as A Dramatic Turn of Events [2011] and Dream Theater [2013] maintained a three-peat in the chart’s Top 10. Consequence of Sounddubbed 2016’s The Astonishing, “An absolutely unique experience.”  Beyond three platinum and two gold videos, the group was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2010. In 2019, the band continued to expand its audience when they released Distance Over Time to critical and commercial acclaim. On their 15^th full-length and second studio release for InsideOutMusic / Sony Music, A View From The Top Of The World the band continue to challenge themselves and push their musical envelope – something they have done for over 30 years performing together. 

 

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