Parasomnia

DREAM THEATER / / CD /

マイク・ポートノイ復帰後初のフル作。夢と現実を巡るプログ・メタル大作。

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Parasomnia / DREAM THEATER

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Track List

  1. In The Arms Of Morpheus
  2. Night Terror
  3. A Broken Man
  4. Dead Asleep
  5. Midnight Messiah
  6. Are We Dreaming?
  7. Bend The Clock
  8. The Shadow Man Incident

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Liner Notes

Japanese

2025年2月7日に発表された、DREAM THEATERの16作目。マイク・ポートノイが2009年の『Black Clouds & Silver Linings』以来、正式なスタジオ作品へ復帰したことで、単なる再会の記念盤ではなく、5人が現在の感覚で再び同じ物語を紡ぎ始める瞬間を捉えたアルバムとなった。題材は睡眠障害、夢、意識、そして現実と幻覚の境界。だが音楽は陰鬱さだけに沈まず、鋭利なリフ、複雑に組み替わる拍子、伸びやかなメロディを通じて、未知の心象へ踏み込む高揚を描く。 「Night Terror」「A Broken Man」「Midnight Messiah」では、緊張を積み上げるアンサンブルと、各パートが独立して動きながら一つの推進力へ収束する構築美が際立つ。大曲「The Shadow Man Incident」まで、技巧は見せ場のための装飾ではなく、夢の中で時間感覚が歪むような感触を生むために使われる。ペトルーシのギター、ルーデスの鍵盤、マイアングの低音、ラブリエの歌、そしてポートノイのドラムが互いの輪郭を鮮明に保つことも大きい。 過去の名作をなぞるのではなく、長い歴史で培った語法を使って次の章を開く一枚。壮大さ、攻撃性、歌心、内省を同じスケールで結び、DREAM THEATERが今なお「聴き手を物語の中へ連れて行くバンド」であることを証明している。

English

Released on February 7, 2025, Parasomnia is DREAM THEATER’s sixteenth studio album and the first full-length studio record to feature drummer Mike Portnoy since 2009’s Black Clouds & Silver Linings. That reunion matters, but the album is not built as a nostalgia exercise. It captures five musicians reconnecting in the present tense, using a shared language that has evolved through decades of technical ambition, melodic instinct, and large-scale storytelling. Its subject matter circles sleep disorders, dreams, consciousness, and the unstable border between reality and illusion. Yet the record does not simply sink into darkness. Sharp riffs, shifting meters, and expansive melodies turn those ideas into momentum. “Night Terror,” “A Broken Man,” and “Midnight Messiah” build tension through detailed ensemble writing, with each instrument retaining a distinct role before the arrangement locks into a unified surge. The nineteen-minute “The Shadow Man Incident” extends that approach without treating virtuosity as decoration; the complexity serves the sensation of time stretching, breaking, and reforming inside a dream. John Petrucci’s guitar, Jordan Rudess’s keyboards, John Myung’s bass, James LaBrie’s vocals, and Portnoy’s drumming all remain sharply defined, giving the album both scale and human focus. Parasomnia does not attempt to recreate an earlier classic. Instead, it uses the band’s accumulated vocabulary to open a new chapter, joining grandeur, aggression, melody, and reflection in a record that confirms DREAM THEATER can still pull the listener fully inside its world.

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