Hey Gang,
Well we just mastered the album today, so it is now officially finished and will be in the hands of Roadrunner Records tomorrow!!
 
In order to be able to release the info before some obscure fan website in Poland does, here's the final track listing and Production credits for ya:
 
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

Produced by John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy
Engineered and Mixed by Paul Northfield

More info is coming soon, so stayed tuned! 
MP 
 

sweet...thanks mike

Give em' the finger and smile...

Zomg It sounds like the tracks will Splode my face

"Johnny feels invisible hands pushing him onward, the voices in his head get meaner"

sounds heavy, and crazy pic btw lol

When Scarsick and Fear of a Blank Planet's track listings came out, they made me say, "eh." This list definitely makes me shoot the devil horns at the computer screen and gets me ready to turn the stereo LOUD.

Awesome Mike, thank you!
 
I love the titles, sound very dark and intense.
I'm looking forward to the new music, and I wish the new release all the commercial success in the world.

Whoaaaa.. Very cool track titles...
 
"The Dark Eternal Night" sounds like an Opeth tune...

Thank for sharing Mike!  Can't even describe how anxious I (and the rest of us) are for this new music!

Oh man, I can't wait to listen to this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SWEET!!! VERY excited for this record as always

Ryan
"...its like Jimi Hendrix meets Jesus Christ at
a party thrown by Ben Hur for Mel Blanc."
Steve Vai

So far I'm really liking all of the few details we have about this album.  Man I cannot wait!!!

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Sounds heavy

Any chance of sharing some track lengths Mike?

You go ahead and take it to roadrunner.  Don't slip and drop the album, please!?!

Always gotta try to beat Poland.... They're Tricky.


Titles suggest some heavy music. I dig it.

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very metal sounding.. very cool.

THANKS MIKE!

waiting also for the duration of tracks.

WOW...judging by those titles I get the feeling it's going to be really heavy and full of proggy goodess!! i can't fucking wait!!

  

Actually better songtitles than the last few albums. But hey, in the end it will be the content that is important. Though I desperately want this album to be as dark and metal as it sounds.

"Jack rabbit mister, spawn a new breed, of love-hungry pilgrims nobody's to feed
Show me a good man and I'll show you the door! The last hymn is sung and the Devil cries 'MORE!'"

/M\! Can´t wait,,, thanks Mike!

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ORIGINAL: Portnoy
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

Oh no!!!! Dream Theater's putting out a Christian album!!!!!! Neal Morse must have influenced Mike when writing the lyrics!! I mean look at the titles!!

•In The Presence of Enemies is obviously in reference to being in the presence of Satan. That there's two parts to it proves that he comes back for revenge!
•Forsaken clearly must be abooot how you are forsaken is you don't believe in Jesus.
•The Dark Eternal Night talks abooot Satan's reign.
•Repentance is obviously abooot repenting of your sins.
•Prophets of War is all abooot prophecying, and that only happens in the Bible!
•The Ministry of Lost Souls can only mean trying to preach and save sinners.

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

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Track listing looks full of balls and chunk. Can't wait.

it is going to be a conceptual album?
.. the titles might be indicating that

Looking good man. Can't tell much from the tracklisting, but then again, I've loved everything else from DT thus far, so I'm fairly sure I'll buy it. 
 
"In the Presence of Enemies" = a la "Pigs On the Wing"?
((sorry, I just had to speculate))

 

Constant Motion?  That sounds familiar.  I guess it's time to put bets on which song is the next of the AA saga.
 
Edit: I also just realized that '7 songs' doesn't mean 7 tracks.

id say either constant motion or repentance for the AA.

ORIGINAL: Cohkka

Constant Motion?  That sounds familiar.  I guess it's time to put bets on which song is the next of the AA saga.

I was just wondering this myself.

Maybe Presence of Enemies will be like Shine on You Crazy Diamond.. with DT.. ooohhh
 
I'm not ruling out yet that this could be a concept album.

ORIGINAL: Cohkka

Constant Motion?  That sounds familiar.  I guess it's time to put bets on which song is the next of the AA saga.

Edit: I also just realized that '7 songs' doesn't mean 7 tracks.

I'm thinking "The Ministry of Lost Souls".  Aren't the last few steps about finding spiritual peace, and spreading it to other addicts?

You got the wrong guy. I'm the Dude, man.

ORIGINAL: Setlist Scotty

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

 
Fixed for you, remember TOT???
 
 

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ORIGINAL: Cohkka

Constant Motion?  That sounds familiar.  I guess it's time to put bets on which song is the next of the AA saga.

Edit: I also just realized that '7 songs' doesn't mean 7 tracks.

Repentance, but it could be throwing us off like These Walls did, lol

"Thats Impossible! Even for a computer"

damn, that sounds forkin cool

"It's Called The American Dream, Because You have To Be Asleep To Believe It." R.I.P.

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Fixed for you, remember TOT???

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ORIGINAL: Cohkka

Constant Motion?  That sounds familiar.  I guess it's time to put bets on which song is the next of the AA saga.

Edit: I also just realized that '7 songs' doesn't mean 7 tracks.

I'm thinking "The Ministry of Lost Souls".  Aren't the last few steps about finding spiritual peace, and spreading it to other addicts?

My bets;

AA saga song; Repentance
Epic song; The Ministry of Lost Souls
Chill song; Forsaken
Brutal song; The Dark Eternal Night

On a more serious note, thanx for sharing the track listing with us Mike! Woohoo! Can't wait to get the new one! BTW, what have you got against obscure Polish fan sites anyway?

ORIGINAL: Wonderland
Maybe Presence of Enemies will be like Shine on You Crazy Diamond.. with DT.. ooohhh

That was my first thought upon seeing the two parts book end the whole album. Really tho, I'd bet its more just the concept of an epic split in two parts to be at the beginning and end. First PF, then PT and now DT...OMG ITZ A NUGGITT!!!!11!1

ORIGINAL: Wonderland
I'm not ruling out yet that this could be a concept album.

Perhaps, but I highly doubt it seeing as there's an AA saga track in there (which I'm betting is Repentance judging by the song titles).



(BTW, for those of you who didn't understand my previous post, have a looksie here and then read the explanation here.

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ORIGINAL: IngeVea

ORIGINAL: Setlist Scotty

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

Fixed for you, remember TOT???

 

hey IngeVea ready for the BajaProg?

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The track names seem to really justify the type of sound MP described on Eddie Trunk.

Oh man, now i can't study. Too much on my mind!

I'm betting there will be many many many fake albums using these track names now since they are official. Remember EOP? haha!

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ORIGINAL: IngeVea

ORIGINAL: Setlist Scotty

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)

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gotta hear the songs to really take much from the titles...the whole surprise I suppose slightly is no "The Pumpkin King"..but then again the new PT doesn't have "The Beast" but that was more of an online/live show thing I think.

Jesus!! thank you Mike!!!