Originally formed by three students attending Boston’s Berklee School of Music in 1985, New York-based Dream Theater is regarded as one of the “big three”—along with Queensrÿche and Fates Warning—of the progressive-metal genre, responsible for its development and popularization. Nearly four decades later, the band is still going strong and was recently out on its inaugural Dreamsonic tour, billed as the band’s “very own prog-metal music festival,” according to guitarist John Petrucci, who adds that it will be the first edition of an annual prog-centric traveling festival curated by the group.
PRG system engineer Steve Thom with one of the Dreamsonic tour’s L Series arrays
Dream Theater, along with support acts Devin Townsend and Animals As Leaders, was also charting new waters in another significant way. This was the first tour in North America to deploy the new L...
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