First Time Hearing ‘This Dying Soul’ By Dream Theater | REACTION! 

What do you guys think of the longer form videos? They seem to be more frequent recently - I tend to babble on some times, let me know if you guys enjoy my detailed thoughts before & after the video or do you prefer just straight up jumping into the reaction? Lemme know🤞🏼

Train of Thought definitely their heaviest album, would love to see more from this. As I Am or In the Name of God

the 12 step suite goes from the glass prison, this dying soul, the root of all evil, repentance, then the shattered fortress to finish it off.

It's all instrumental, but Stream of Consciousness is great.

10:06 Yeah man... That breakdown is illegal in 578 countries and 19 Planets. EARGASM!!!

The riff around 10:10 is a callback to the Glass Prison btw.

Heavy Theater. Insane tune. Imagine, they play this live flawless.

Portnoy actually talked about the creation of the suite in the most recent video on his RU-vid channel.

You should watch this live at Budokan, flawless performance. Petrucci plays the outro like effortlessly, it's just insane... cannot wait for the next reaction.

Yes!! I highly recommend reacting to "Falling Back To Earth" by Haken - they're somewhat similar to Dream Theater but also have their own unique sound. I think you'd love it!

In the Name of God - train of thought (same album) is just pure brilliance 🤘🤘🤘

After Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence came out, Mike Portnoy answered some questions on his website, one of them being: "Will there be a "sequel" to the Glass Prison that covers the remaining steps of recovery (as Alcoholics Anonymous teaches)?" MP responds: "It's something that would be a nice little project for me to try to tackle in the coming years. It would also probably be a very good thing for my recovery. So yeah it's something I'm thinking about."

I highly suggest listening to "Endless Sacrifice", is the next song of that album. It has an excellent, interesting and fun instrumental break and the part that goes after is just genius.

Liquid Tension Experiment - Acid Rain

Yes! Keep the suite going with The Root of All Evil! It's a nice stylistic change of pace while staying on theme.

This band and this album were melting my mind a decade and a half ago when it came out. It was never on the radio and it was never popular with the people I knew with because they all lived and died by the rock and roll that's on the radio and the MTV stations. It's good to know this much further down the timeline of history with internet and RU-vid etc that people like yourself are starting to indulge in this realm of tasty music that's always been out there but it's not mass produced and friendly. There's a lot of music to unpack here and once you start to unpack it you'll never go hungry again.

Their name is totally appropriate, they are theatrical especially more so live. They make you jump and cry in the space of minutes. Pure Theater

As I am from the same album!

The Mirror has been mentioned at least twice now. Maybe you should react to it 👀

I recommend react to the whole Train of Thought album

After covering the 12 step suite, if you still want to continue with DT, you should try "Home" from the album Scenes From A Memory.

A Nightmare To Remember is an absolute MUST! It doesn't get nearly enough praise! Its dark, heavy, melodic, tells a story and a straight banger as well! Come on Drew!

I think it's time for some more Train of Thought, perhaps Endless Sacrifice or Stream of Consciousness. The whole album is consistent and amazing as this song.

Train of Thought is such a deep, emotional, heavy and all around dirty album! What a masterpiece! This is one of the filthiest and heaviest songs ever created!

14:20 yes, there You have it. THE PETRUCCINATOR in mode Beast, playing at 6 million Beats per minute.

I recommend for the last song of the suite "THE SHATTERED FORTRESS" to watch the live performance of the "breaking the fourth wall DVD" ... INSANE !

Honor thy father-train of thought (same album) is just pure brilliance 🤘🤘🤘

BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME: SELKIES: THE ENDLESS OBSESSION.

You should check the "Live at The Budokan" concert of Dream Theater, see how they perform live.

I'll continue my shouting out for you to check out Mastodon, their tracks Halloween, Jaguar God or The Last Baron for starters. Oh man, you like guitar riffs and groove, Mastodon have them both in loads :) Halloween is a great jumping off point, the last two albums have cleaner vocals and are, dare I say it, easier listening :) than the earlier stuff. Jaguar God is the kind of music that I didn;t think got made anymore and The Last Baron has a real beauty of a riff.

Take the time, learning to live, in the name of god, scarred, breaking all illusions

I wanna see your reaction to "Metropolis Part 2. Scenes From a Memory". Do it please!

I enjoy watching these, I remember when I first found dream theater around 2000, how I felt listening to metropolis pt2 for the first time and then going back through their whole catalog getting my mind blown, and getting to enjoy every release since.... you’ve got a lot of great music ahead of you to enjoy from them, enjoy the ride 🍻

The Root of All Evil is next in the saga!

Now do "The Root of All Evil!" I'd love to see you do the entire suite (maybe hit "The Mirror" afterwards, since that's like a prelude rather than any kind of continuation)

Stream of consciousness is next. A full instrumental song. Absolutely astonishing. Keep going I love your work man.

Yes! Part two of the 12 steps suite. The root of all evil is part three on the Octavarium album

Yes YES !!! KEEP continue with the 12- steps suite !!

reaction: Honor Ty Father, Dream Theater...

The entire 12 step suite is written by Mike Portnoy, who was also a founding member of the band. He was in the band for 25 years, his father even gave the band their name.

Dram Theater- Breaking All illusion

The mirror can be considered as an overture to the 12 step suite,even if it was not planned to be that at the time,as it has musical and lyrical references all through the suite. I suggest you to list to all the tracks in order after some time,better with no interrutions and with little memory of the songs,it is an incredible experience(I've done it several times)

This Dying Soul is a continuation of the first track from Train of Thought, As I Am. I highly recommend the first track.

So actually the static heard in Glass Prison is actually from the ending of the previous album “Scenes from a Memory” so in a way that six album stretch is super meta and the last note of Six Degrees is the first note heard on Train of Thought and that continues until Octavarium because in Octavarium it’s them completing the cycle and then they signed with Roadrunner Records shortly after, Dream Theater is such an insane band.

Good stuff again from you my g think we all know what the next reaction shall be root of all Evil

In the same album "Honor thy father" is outstanding.

I love it that your doing so many Dream Theather could listen to you react to 100 of there songs, your so fun to watch. I was hope you could do a request from me I would love to hear you react to all the ones below or at least a few 1. The Count Of Tuscany 2.) Prophets Of War 3.) Endless Sacrifice 4.) A Rite of Passage 5.) In the Presence of Enemies, Pt. 1 I love all Dream Theater but here a few suggestions for you. These all equally good and I'd love to here you react to all of them. Thanks very much!!!

I think the best musical and heavyset album from Dream Theater. Bass heavy and nicely mixed. Love you’re reactions. Keep up the good prog and metal!

Voices by dream theater has my favorite solo, you should give it a listen. You should check out the song "for the love of god" by Steve Vai, it is one of the best songs ever created.

This was great but seeing this Live at Budokan and watching them play this, is spectacular. The next one, Root of all Evil, you could watch the Score DVD video

And if you like this Heavier Side of DT, Listen to Constant Motion & Dark Eternal Night, Both off of the Systematic Chaos Album. Or As I Am on This album.

The Count of Tuscany please! It's everything that makes Dream Theater so great! It's also the last studio track that Mike Portnoy played in before leaving.

Damn more DT bro keep em cming and dont worry we're here to guide you through the real treasures

Please keep up the 12 step suite, it's so worth it. Just keep in mind, these guys range from ballads to heavy and everything in between. Not all of their songs are this heavy, but it doesn't mean they're bad. Similar to Opeth in that way

If this song blow your mind, you have to see the live version in Budokan!!!

Do "Beyond This Life" and "The Dance of Eternity" next! Or, as a matter of fact, the whole of the "Metropolis Part II: Scenes from a Memory" album. It's insane...

You definitely have to listen to these Dream Theater songs which are my favorite: When Dream and Day Unite: The Ytse Jam. Images and Words: Pull me under, Another Day, Take The Time, Metropolis, Under a Glass Moon. Awake: 6:00 am, Erotomania, Voices, Lifting Shadows off a Dream. Falling into Infinity: Peruvian Skies, Hollow Years, Burning My soul. Metropolis Pt. 2: whole album. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence: The Glass Prison, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. Train of Thought: whole album. Octavarium: The Root of all evil, These Walls, Panick Attack. After Octavarium I didn't listen to them that much because I found a "change" of genre.

As a lifelong DT fan I can’t recommend enough watching “The Root of all evil” from Score love. It’s amazing watch you fall in love with them

Once the 12 step suite is finished I recommend Barstool Warrior, in my opinion it has one of the best dream theatre guitar solos. Very underrated song

Mike Portnoy did perform the 12-step suite live in its entirety with the Haken guys a couple of years ago.. What a thing to witness

So ready to see you geek out to these riffs! For a future 20+ minute "epic" on par with A Change of Seasons, check out "The Great Escape" by Seventh Wonder or "The Odyssey" by Symphony X!!!

You should see them live!

This song is just about my favourite song ever, due mainly to the fact that it absolutely shook me at first listen, it’s just so heavy yet so dynamic and such a fantastic piece of music. Waffling I know but still, love the vids keep it up man

These guys know different types of scales and the way they use them is amazing.

Metropolis Pt2!!!!!! (From start to finish)

The next song on this album is "Endless Sacrifice", and it's also a masterpiece! The heaviest of all ballads)

you should watch them live next time they tour!!! mind blowing!!! for a more Prog vibe listen to Metropolis!!!

Yes, The Root of All Evil is a badass jam as well. You should see them play This Dying Soul live at Budokan. It's impressive.

Cool song & probably their heaviest album. Dream Theater - In the Name of God (Live At Budokan) should be on your radar.

The Shattered Fortress is ridiculous but you have to do the live version. The guitar/keyboard solos are just impeccable.

Really cool reaction man. Your comments are really good indeed, right in the moment and with good fundaments. Do you know what? You should make a marathon with "Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes From a Memory". For me it´s one of the greatest progressive rock/metal albums of all times.

I saw Dream Theater on the very first night of the ToT tour in Manchester. They played two sets (standard issue for them back in those days - 3-hour gigs with no support act) and they played the entire Train of Thought album front-to-back for the first set. It was SICK.

Great !!!! Next has to be "The Count of Tuscany" or "Breaking All Illusions" (live version from Boston Opera House). Thanks !!!!

The more you do, the more Dream Theater will become your favourite band

Glad to see you sticking to the twelve-step suite. The Root Of All Evil is up next. This Dying Soul is definitely one of their heavier tracks and I love the sort of middle eastern vibe it has going on. The ending unison between the keyboard and guitar is nuts.

I would seriously recommend listening to Octavarium a few more times - I get that it's not for everyone, I didn't get it for my first couple of listens, but it is now my favourite song of any artist. Also, read the Wikipedia page, as it gives a decent rundown of all the little nuances in it, which I missed almost all of, but once I knew what I looking for, it massively increased my love for this song.

Another awesome reaction! DT are simply amazing and it definitely amazes people with such easy because they are so talented. Really happy to see that you are going to do the whole saga of the 12 steps. It`s gonna worth it guaranteed.

There was a series of albums they did that were all linked in some way, either by the songs that made up the 12-step suite or just by other easter eggs or nods to other albums... The static you hear at the beginning of The Glass Prison is because the album before that (Metropolis Pt. 2) ends with the same static noise, and the last note of SDOIT is the same note that begins the next album (Train of Thought), the idea being that they're just making one really bloody long album I guess.... My favourite Dream Theater song is probably The Count of Tuscany if you're looking for another of their 'epics' to react to. It's a good mix of the progressive/melodic sound while also being really heavy. The vocal section that starts at 10:42 is them paying homage to 'Blackened' by Metallica which you might like if you enjoyed their other stuff (same album as 'One')

Dude please do in the presence of the enemies part one and too, I like how you feel and describe songs , keep it up dude

Man, I was waiting for this so long!!! Cheers from Chile

The 12 step suite includes, The Glass Prison, This Dying Soul, The Root of All Evil, Repentance, and The Shattered Fortress. It spans from the albums "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, Train of Thought, Octavarium, Systematic Chaos, and Black Clouds and Silver Linings. I'd love to see you react to each one of them, I think that would be awesome to get your perspective on each of those songs!

Top three favorite DT songs for sure.

Cockroach king by Haken is an insane track!

You must follow through with the AA suite now. Next stop: The Roof of All Evil 🤘 I think you should do the same format as you do now. You can pause a little more often I think, when you stumble upon sections you find interesting. Keep it up 😎

Please check out 'The Winery Dogs" 1st album! Heavy, Riffy, Hooky... (The drummer is Mike P formerly from dream theater.... Billy Sheehan, and Richie Kotzen.) You won't be disappointed.

One of my all time favorite intros

This is like sitting with a mate and playing some of your own mental music to them. Love it.

Keep em coming! Can't wait for the next one. I live for DT reactions

Hey man! Tool OG here.. you should check out this Australian metal band called Polaris. Theyre crazy good. Literally anything off of their new album is awesome, although i recommend creatures of habit

My Favorite Dream Theater Album!!.

Since yer doing these, would make sense to do the mirror too, since its like... the prequel

In the name of God , pls

It's always good to see someone really enjoying this amazing band 💕

DANCE OF ETERNITY PLEASE!

Love this album, definitely do more reacts from this album! Also love scenes from a memory, though you cant react to individual songs from that album, you have to react to all of it.

The keyboards sinchronized whit the guitars at the end!

The first two songs of the 12 step suite are the best ones. Since you like heavy bass and groove check out "The Mirror" and "In the name of God"

Two down, two to go! haha As I Am Endless Sacrifice (Honor Thy Father is great too. The 'Train Of Thought' album is pretty heavy, as a whole)

This track is simply FIRE. Yes...for the next song check Honour Thy Father or Stream of Consciousness or the next one in the Suite - The Root of All Evil. And I will keep going with the Symphony X reaction...The Odyssey, or if you want stuff like The Divine WIngs of Tragedy, or Egypt, Rediscovery, In the Dragon's Den or Smoke and Mirrors...seriously, Symphony X is a must when you listen to DT...Keep it up!

Check this song out live. Live at the Budokan