Debuted at #6 on Billboard’s Top 200 Album Chart

Dream Theater's tenth long-player is about as dense and challenging as any album in their daunting discography by emphasizing not only the virtuoso members' ever stupefying musicianship, but also their most aggressive and thoroughly metallic songwriting tendencies. At the end of the day, one must admit that Black Clouds & Silver Linings, for all its abundantly positive qualities and minor but clear distinctions from prior efforts, is still an archetypal Dream Theater album; one that's unlikely to broaden their audience all that much, but is conversely guaranteed to thrill their hardcore converts with its renewed devotion to the most exigent and stimulating facets of the band's chosen musical domain.

Track Listing
A Nightmare To Remember
A Rite of Passage
The Shattered Fortress
Wither
The Best of Times
The Court of Tuscany