Dream Theater have launched the music video for “Midnight Messiah,” the newest single from their forthcoming album, Parasomnia, arriving February seventh.
The observe marks one other milestone for the prog-metal masters, at it options the primary lyrical contributions from drummer Mike Portnoy since 2009. The stickman returned to the band in late 2023 following a 13-year absence.
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The catchiest of the album singles to date, “Midnight Messiah” opens with a lurching, slowed tempo that quickly turns into a groove-laden riff exercise. There’s hints of exhausting rock and traditional metallic, particularly through the first half of the observe, with the band busting out the solos and prog flexes through the latter half.
“It was nice writing lyrics once more and contributing this chapter to the Parasomnia story,” commented Portnoy in a press launch. “DT followers might get a kick out of discovering a number of the hidden nuggets I planted within the music referencing lots of my previous DT lyrics…and the music video is a good illustration of the thrill of the primary two tour legs we just lately accomplished all through Europe and South America. Simply in time to organize for our subsequent leg all through North America which we’re so excited to embark on.”
That tour kickoff is simply across the nook on February seventh — the identical day the album drops — in Philadelphia. The North American leg of the band’s fortieth anniversary trek will run by way of a sold-out March twenty second present at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor in New York Metropolis. Get tickets right here.
Stream the video for “Midnight Messiah” beneath.