One official day listening to Dream Theater album number 16: “Parasomnia”.
“Parasomnia” Deluxe Edition comes with CD of the album, CD contains instrumental version of the album, and Blu-ray contains Dolby Atmos & 5.1 Surround Sound, High-Resolution Stereo Mixes, animated visualizers for each song.
The best part of “Parasomnia” Deluxe Edition is the Instrumental version of the CD. I’ve acquired Dream Theater’s album releases with Instrumental mixes whenever they were made available. My personal collections of Dream Theater releases with Instrumental mixes:
- Black Clouds & Silver Linings (2009)
- A Dramatic Turns of Events (2011)
- Distance Over Time (2019)
- A View from the Top of the World (2021)
- Parasomnia (2025)
Parasomnia tracklist:
- In The Arms Of Morpheus (Overture)
- Night Terror
- A Broken Man
- Dead Asleep
- Midnight Messiah
- Are We Dreaming? (Interlude)
- Bend The Clock
- The Shadow Man Incident
Right if the bat, the record contains 2 Instrumental tracks out of 8. That leaves 6 other tracks that have the different Instrumental mixes. Still worth getting the Deluxe Edition of the record.
On another note, the artworks in the Deluxe Edition are underwhelming. Blame that on the overused Computer Generated Slops, also known as AI Generated Slops.
I both like and feeling underwhelmed by this record. Probably I’ve become jaded when it comes to Dream Theater’s music.