Dream Theater Full Album May 2026

plays. He fights shadow versions of the band — John Petrucci wields a guitar-neck sword, Jordan Rudess throws arpeggios like shuriken. He defeats them. Then “The Best of Times” starts.

He screams: “I just want to stop!”

begins. The 24-minute epic. He stands on a cliff overlooking a city that spells “DREAM THEATER” in burning lights. A man in a jester suit (the “Medicate” therapist) hands him a pill. “This will end the album.” dream theater full album

By he’s weeping. A choir sings of peace. Then the needle skips. The song loops. He can’t die. The record won’t end. Part Two: The Glass Prison (Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence)

His father points to the moon. It has a clock face. plays softly. The moon ticks to 9:00 PM again. The second hand switches to forward. Epilogue: Finally Free? Then “The Best of Times” starts

He is behind the wheel of a car. The headlights show a deer in the road. He swerves. The last thing he hears is the opening piano chord of

The needle lifts. Silence. He is back in the white room. The album cover in his hands now shows his own face — young, old, dead, alive. He turns it over. The tracklist has only one song: He stands on a cliff overlooking a city

Nicholas awakens in a white room. He has no memory of how he got there. A clock reads 9:00 PM — but the second hand ticks backward. On a dusty record player sits a single album: Scenes From a Memory . When he plays it, he remembers. But the album won’t stop. It bleeds into every other Dream Theater album, and each song reveals another layer of his looping nightmare. Part One: The Hypnotist’s Needle (Scenes From a Memory)