DREAM THEATER RELEASE VIDEO FOR THE LIVE VERSION OF “NIGHT TERROR”
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DREAM THEATER RELEASE VIDEO FOR THE LIVE VERSION OF “NIGHT TERROR” FROM QUARANTIÈME:
LIVE À PARIS – THE GRAMMY-NOMINATED SONG FROM THE 2025 ALBUM PARASOMNIA
Live Release of 40th Anniversary Headline Show in Paris by the Iconic Lineup of James LaBrie, John Myung, John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy and Jordan Rudess – Out on November 28th – Now Available for Pre-Order HERE
Tickets for the AMC Theatre Screening of QUARANTIÈME: LIVE À PARIS on November 17th Presented in 4K Ultra High-Definition Video with Immersive
(New York, NY) – Fresh off their fourth career GRAMMY® nomination, progressive metal mainstays Dream Theater have released a live performance video for “Night Terror”, the Best Metal Performance–nominated track from their 2025 album Parasomnia. The clip previews the band’s upcoming concert film and album, Quarantième: Live à Paris, recorded during their sold-out 40th Anniversary tour stop at the Adidas Arena in Paris.
The band — James LaBrie, John Petrucci, John Myung, Jordan Rudess, and Mike Portnoy — earned the nod in the wake of a major year that included a celebrated reunion lineup, a new album, a global headline run, and continued demand from a fan base spanning four decades and multiple generations.
In a statement recognizing the nomination, Dream Theater said:
“We are truly humbled and grateful to receive our fourth GRAMMY nomination. After 40 years together, it still means so much to be recognized by the music community. When we began writing ‘Night Terror,’ it felt special to us on a personal level — so to see it resonate in this way is something we don’t take for granted. Thank you to the Recording Academy for this honor, and congratulations to all of the nominees this year.”
Quarantième: Live à Paris arrives November 28 via Inside Out Music/Sony Music and features a career-spanning set including “Metropolis Pt. 1,” “Panic Attack,” “Octavarium,” and “Pull Me Under.” The elease continues momentum from recently issued live videos for “Overture 1928 / Strange Déjà Vu” and “Barstool Warrior.”
The project will be issued across multiple premium physical and digital formats, including a Limited Deluxe 3CD + 3Blu-ray Artbook featuring 68 pages of photography and artwork by longtime collaborator Hugh Syme, a Special Edition 3CD + 2Blu-ray Digipak, and a Limited Deluxe 180g 4LP boxset. The Blu-ray edition includes Dolby Atmos, 5.1 Surround, and high-resolution stereo mixes.
Dream Theater also partnered with AMC Theatres to give fans the chance to see their upcoming live release Quarantième: Live à Paris the way it was intended – on the big screen. The full-length concert will run in select markets on November 17th at 7:00PM local time. AMC Theatres in markets like Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco to name a few will be showing Quarantième: Live à Paris. The feature – with a runtime of 175 minutes – will be presented in 4k Ultra High-Definition Video and Immersive Audio. Tickets for the screening are $18.00 and can be purchased via the AMC website HERE.
An album that was fifteen years in the making, Dream Theater released their sixteenth studio album, Parasomnia on February 7, 2025, via their longtime label home, Inside Out Music/Sony Music. From the opening track “In The Arms Of Morpheus” to the closer of “The Shadow Man Incident,” Dream Theater returned with a collection of songs that showcased what has earned the band a loyal following for four decades. Clocking in at 71 minutes, Parasomnia debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Hard Rock Albums, the Hard Music Albums and Current Rock Albums chart selling over 18,000 combined units the first week. It also debuted at #41 on the Billboard 200 which is notable for a progressive metal band and shows the bands devout fanbase. The album has spawned music videos for the tracks “Night Terror,” “Midnight Messiah,” “A Broken Man,” and most-recently, “Bend The Clock. Parasomnia is a term for disruptive, sleep-related disturbances including sleepwalking, sleep paralysis, and night terrors. The album was produced by Petrucci, engineered by James ‘Jimmy T’ Meslin, and mixed by Andy Sneap. Hugh Syme returns once again to lend his creative vision to the cover art. More information can be found HERE.
Dream Theater L to R: Mike Portnoy, John Petrucci, James LaBrie, John Myung, Jordan Rudess
(Photo Credit: Mark Maryanovich)
About Dream Theater
Beyond selling millions of records worldwide and gathering a billion-plus streams, Dream Theater have quietly evolved into progressive metal trailblazers over the course of an unprecedented journey earmarked by one unforgettable milestone after another. The career-launching Images & Words graced Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Metal Albums of All-Time,” while Awake claimed #1 on Guitar World’s “Superunknown: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994.” In addition to emerging as Classic Rock’s “15thGreatest Concept Album,” Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory toppled a fan-voted Rolling Stone poll as the “Number One All-Time Progressive Rock Album.” They shook the charts with three Top 10 debuts on the Billboard 200 and headlined sold out shows everywhere from Radio City Music Hall to Red Rocks Amphitheatre. The band garnered a GRAMMY® Award in the category of “Best Metal Performance” for “The Alien” from 2021’s A View From The Top of the World. Of the latter, PROG raved, “Not just proper Dream Theater, then, but something ever-so-slightly bigger and better,” and Consequence attested, “A View From the Top of the World shows that the quintet is still offering music that is easily on par with their earlier efforts.” Now, Dream Theater have returned to their roots as James LaBrie [vocals], John Petrucci [guitar], John Myung [bass], and Jordan Rudess [keyboards] reunite with Mike Portnoy [drums] during their fortieth anniversary. Simultaneously, these five old friends enter a bold new era fueled by some of the most focused, formidable, and fiery music of their career. They’re harnessing the memories of the past and the promise of the future to make the most of the present. Ultimately, the group’s sixteenth full-length album, Parasomnia [Inside Out Music/Sony Music], represents both where they came from and where they’re going as not only bandmates, but as brothers.
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