![News Added Nov 02, 2018 Dream Theater's upcoming release, "Distance Over Time", comes out in February, 2019. To announce the details of the band's most recent offering, Dream Theater has enlisted the help of fans to spread the word about the release and even to break the news of the record release date, cover artwork, […]](https://hasitleaked.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/LFjwIZJ-320x320.jpg "Dream Theater : Distance Over Time")
Dream Theater's upcoming release, "Distance Over Time", comes out in February, 2019. To announce the details of the band's most recent offering, Dream Theater has enlisted the help of fans to spread the word about the release and even to break the news of the record release date, cover artwork, and to share the first taste of never before heard music. With this album, a return to the band's roots, Dream Theater hoped to create a fan engagement experience unlike any previously undertaken.
To lead into the initial release of material, an Alternate Reality Game was launched. This game encompassed a "treasure hunt" whereby fans were able to search for clues hidden in various photos, video, social media posts, and more. Cooperation to host the Alternate Reality Game focused on various fan communities. The band's fan club, forum members and Reddit each brought in technical expertise to create puzzles for the participants. Each and every week, a new puzzle would be released, often in the form of a candid photo or video from the studio where Dream Theater recorded their latest album. This would contain a piece of the puzzle - a clue to be used in the process of solving that week's mystery. The puzzles were usually based on some encryption scheme or hiding information in the files, such as hiding a zipped file with text in an image file, or hiding text within the spectrogram of an audio file. One puzzle had the fans decoding Morse Code on a light diode of recording equipment, while another had the fans decoding a touch tone number from a phone call. Fans had to solve a sonogram, sudoku puzzle, reverse engineer an encryption scheme to find a key that would decrypt a specific text. They had to solve crosswords and trivia games. Fans were eager to participate, and often worked together to collectively solve the puzzles within hours of their release.
Ultimately, there would be one person - one fan who would be the first to solve the final clue. As their prize, this fan would be the first person to possess previously unreleased Dream Theater content. The very first person outside the band to have possession of any new music, new artwork, new album title. It would be the fans who would solve the puzzle, complete the game and break the news of the release, disseminating this brand new Dream Theater news to the world from their personal online presence.
It is the hope of Dream Theater to have created a fun and engaging fan experience. A unique manner to amp up the excitement for the new release, and to involve the band's fanbase in a new and interesting way. On behalf of Dream Theater - congratulations to the winner, and thank you to everyone who participated.
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They’re not even half as good without Portnoy, but they’re still the best band around. The clips got me excited. LaBrie sounds better than I expected and I wish I could say the drums sound better than they have but nope, still weird.
I think it sounds compressed but due to YT algorithm
Legend!
I hope the album sound less compressed than the snippet, it sounds horrible
The teaser is ”Untethered Angel” its already in shazam.
Why Everytime a Dt album is to come out in the near future, i just get so impacient and it takes so loooong to leak xD.
Damn,
cause DT are awesome?
Some German site leaked 30 second snippets of each song on the album. Dream Theater Universe posted some on Facebook…
Anyone hearing anything about a leak? I’m getting impatient!
Paralyzed has leaked. No sign of the album yet though.
A new song, Paralyzed, has leaked. I guess the full album is imminent
Ah yes??? Link please for the song….
It wasn’t really a leak though. It released first in some countries and people just posted it.
Oh, for fuck’s sake. Leak already.
Yeah Right ? I’m tired of waiting too man .
Haken’s Vector was also release by Inside Out, and it only leaked a day before its release. They might be really good with keeping their content safe.
I get promos from Inside Out for a music blog I write for occasionally. They explicitly say that there may be watermarks on the files, which discourages leaking them. I get promos for most Inside Out releases, usually a month or two in advance, but did not get one for Distance Over Time, as my Inside Out rep said that Dream Theater’s own publicist handled sending out promos for them instead of Inside Out’s marketing team. He forwarded my request to them, but I never got a response, and here I am now stuck waiting with everyone else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpvwRFMjD0M
This sounds great
It has leaked
It kinda leaked temporarily; a dropbox was shared around with all the mp3’s but it generated too much traffic so it’s closed now. A bunch of people must have it though, so a proper leak should be right around the corner…
It’s out there on Telegram/WhatsApp groups…
leaked on GetMetal
Barstool Warrior is mindblowing! I’m in tears…
Any links, guys ?
All ready in kingdomleaks
this is fantastic album!!!
esse album é fantastico!!!
It leaked already…..
This album leaked days ago.
Best Album since Train of Thought
It is listening “Untethered Angel” and realizing that Dream Theater is looking for as much energy as memorable refrains, something that is to be appreciated after a CD as rare as “The Astonishing”.
“Viper King” of the best.