SYSTEMATIC CHAOS track listing!!

There´s no doubt Mike´s keeping us excited (revealing new info about the album every week) and it´s great ´cos the time seems to be running faster this way. I just wonder what will fill up the time till the release date when Mike´s run out of all the possible info...we´ll all have gone crazy with the anticipation by the time of the release date. June´s so far And I hope I won´t have to fight the temptation of downloading the album from somewhere on the net before it is officially released. I don´t want to hear anything till I hold the CD in my hands. Fuck June´s so far

You know, guys. Mike is just as eager to release this album as we are eager to get it. So that leads me to two questions for Mike

1.) Any chance of a little preview just for us? Just a small taste of it until the main course?
2.) Any chance of you guys coming to Portland, OR? I'm sure my band, Tragic Circus, wouldn't mind being a "local opening act." *hint*
 
Mike, thanks for the info. I can't wait to get this album. I know like every Dream Theater album, this will floor me and leave my jaw dropped.

And is it just me, or does John Myung look gangsta in the most recent band picture?

I just can't wait, how long we need to wait mike?

Hey Setlist... your  "abooot" is hilarious... sounds like real CANADIAN, eh!!!

mh I think I'm going to build a timemshine..... 'cause I can't wait man . I'm sure Mike, you booked some shows in Germany. And, of course, I started thinking of the hidden nuggets on the record like the morse code in ToT or the numberchaos on Octavarium.
 
so see you all in Germany ....  greetings from <-Germany 

I cannot wait to here this with Northfield handling all the production and mixing duties!!!!!! AWESOME!! Way to go MP!!!

This sounds awesome.I'm really looking forward to it. Thank you, Mike.

I really hope Mike keeps giving us new info every other week or so, i mean no other band does that and its just beyond awsome. Im hoping he gives us mabey the track lengths next, so we can atleast settle this Epic debate....and if he was to give us an acual preview of a song i think i would just start dancing asap.

the track lengths are not the only indicator for an epic. Sacrificed Sons is about 11 minutes long, but it is an epic.

Oh shit
This sounds like it will be even darker than TOT

sounds awsome mike thats for the update
 
and im suprised no one has mentioned this nugget??!!!? that the first and last song are two parts of 1 song and that they tracks listings add up to 9
 
1. In The Presence of Enemies Pt.1
+
8. In The Presence of Enemies Pt.2
=
9.
 

I did notice no track #9, breaking the "tradition" (7th album = 7 tracks, etc.)

omfg nugget!!!!!

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I did notice no track #9, breaking the "tradition" (7th album = 7 tracks, etc.)

I guess they're "trapped inside this Octasong idea"

All titles indeed sound very heavy, but I hope the new album won't be TOT2. I mean more prog and diverse, definitely less metal.
It's a pity that the working title for the epic, "The Pumpkin King" will not appear on the new album eventually. I got used to this title ;) And it sounds great ;)
I think In The Presence of Enemies will be an epic, but split into two parts like Shine On You...
I hope Prophets Of War won't be another protest song, another Anti-Bush song or Anti-America Song...
Constant Motion IMO seems to be an instrumental track.
I'm looking forward to know track lenghts.
 
 

oh, mike, thanx thanx thanx a lot!
we're looking forward to the album..
btw, your avatar must be "a tribute to mona lisa" or sth.

Loved the track listing!! Thanks Mike for sharing it with us!! 

Holy speculation, people! 
I think Mike gives us these little tastes just to drive us crazy!
 

i sometimes can't believe the fans (i mean us) that we start diggin' something without hearing ANYthing... so how can you say the lyrics are gonna be in a religious way when you just know the titles of it?
BUT one thing for sure it's gonna be one of the darkest albums in the DT history...

sorry am i did the same thing that i did mentioned before.
i guess so , i think i'm lost, i fully know myself these are the signs that
i can't wait till june

I bet 'The Dark Eternal Night' will continue the AA saga. Seems too obvious to be 'Repentance'... Can't be that easy

Samples needed

holy shit i can't wait 

I would personally love it if it were an anti government/world leader theme.  But then again I'm going to love it whatever sooooooooooooooo.............

Samples needed

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Samples needed

maybe just a little video teaser ?

I never thought it was possible. Normally it takes a really kick ass album to pwn me. However - this tracklisting has just pwned my ass.

Very cool. The first thing I thought of when I saw the parts 1 and 2 at either end of the album was Fates Warning's Disconnected. Looking forawrd to this one!

Very nice!  I excite!!

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I would personally love it if it were an anti government/world leader theme.  But then again I'm going to love it whatever sooooooooooooooo.............

I would hate it if it turns out to be like that

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I can't believe it! They went Christian on us, AGAIN! That's it - I'm outta here!

Fixed for you, remember TOT???

 

Oh trust me, I remember it well. I thought abooot including the word again, but seeing as ToT and 8v turned out not to be Christian albums, it didn't seem to make sense. That said, this is clearly a Christian album, judging only by the song titles which could be interpreted in any of a million different ways, but it's obvious that they have to be Christian if ya know what I mean, right?

(BTW you find the original ToT thread that started that mess? I could find my 8v post, but not the ToT one)

LMAO, all of your posts in this thread have made me laugh out loud. Haha made my day.

PROPHETS OF WAARRRR!!!!
 
dude these titles sound pretty bad ass, i already like this album haha

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

DREAM THEATER - SYSTEMATIC CHAOS
1. In The Presence of Enemies Pt.1
2. Forsaken
3. Constant Motion
4. The Dark Eternal Night
5. Repentance
6. Prophets of War
7. The Ministry of Lost Souls
8. In The Presence of Enemies Pt.2

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Im so excited i think i may vomit!!!!!
 
HOLY CRAP!!!!!
 
CANT WAIT!!!
YOU GUYS OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWN!!!!!!!!!!!

OH MY FUCKING GOD this sounds like pure awesomeness...
NOW THESE tracks sound like PROG METAL
Can't friggin wait!

AHHH!! This is very very exciting news! Its like a huge tease though!!

Mastering was done today so what´s left to do anyways?
Artwork getting designed?
Why does it take sooo long to release an album? 

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"The Dark Eternal Night" sounds like an Opeth tune...

+1
The exact thought went through my mind. As a matter of fact, a great deal of the titles sound like Opeth songs.

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I would personally love it if it were an anti government/world leader theme.  But then again I'm going to love it whatever sooooooooooooooo.............

I would hate it if it turns out to be like that

Me too. I'm sick of that junk.

However, I SERIOUSLY doubt that is what this album is about.

Wow..... every time I think about this album, I get so excited that I get dizzy!!!!

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I would personally love it if it were an anti government/world leader theme.  But then again I'm going to love it whatever sooooooooooooooo.............

I would hate it if it turns out to be like that

Me too. I'm sick of that junk.

Not me, I love that kind of stuff.

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I hope Prophets Of War won't be another protest song, another Anti-Bush song or Anti-America Song...

Out of curiousity, can you name the previous anti-Bush and anti-America songs DT have done... I'm getting older and my memory's not what it used to be. For the life of me, I just can't remember what they were.

I hope Prophets of War is another protest song. There's absolutely nothing in the universe more deserving of scrutiny, criticism, condemnation, scorn, and protest than wars and the people responsible for them. And intelligent songwriters are just as good a source of that as any other media. Also, as before, I'm sure they'll be dealing with the philosophical and political issues or concepts as opposed to directly criticizing a particular figure. The current war(s) will end, but sadly the behaviors that lead to them are unlikely to anytime soon. I'd think the band would want their song to be applicable and critical of those behaviors rather than something/someone that will (hopefully) soon just be an unpleasant memory and a paragraph in a high school history textbook.

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Very well put Ragutis, I totaly agree.  Could'nt have said it better.