Black Clouds & Silver Linings

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Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings.jpg
Cover art by Hugh Syme
Studio album by
Dream Theater
ReleasedJune 23, 2009 (2009-06-23)
RecordedOctober 2008 – March 2009
Studio Avatar, New York City
Genre
Length75:25
Label Roadrunner
Producer
Dream Theater chronology
Chaos in Motion 2007–2008
(2008)		Black Clouds & Silver Linings
(2009)		 A Dramatic Turn of Events
(2011)
Singles from Black Clouds & Silver Linings
  1. "A Rite of Passage"
    Released: May 11, 2009
  2. "Wither"
    Released: September 15, 2009 [1]

Black Clouds & Silver Linings is the tenth studio album by American progressive metal band Dream Theater, released on June 23, 2009 through Roadrunner Records. [2] [3] This was the band's last album to feature drummer and founding member Mike Portnoy before his thirteen-year hiatus from Dream Theater, which lasted from September 2010 to October 2023. [4] [5] The album was recorded between October 2008 and March 2009 at Avatar Studios in New York City, where they previously recorded Falling into Infinity (1997) and Systematic Chaos (2007). Black Clouds & Silver Linings was produced by John Petrucci and Portnoy, and was engineered and mixed by Paul Northfield.

Contents

Black Clouds & Silver Linings was a major success for Dream Theater, becoming their highest-charting album on the Billboard 200, where it peaked at number six. [6]

History

Dream Theater began to work on the album in October 2008. [3] Mike Portnoy described Black Clouds & Silver Linings as, "a Dream Theater album with 'A Change of Seasons', 'Octavarium', 'Learning to Live', 'Pull Me Under' and 'The Glass Prison' all on one album." [7] Jordan Rudess said at a NAMM Show that Spectrasonics virtual instruments were used on the album. [8]

Lyrical themes

The album's lyrics were written by John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy, and all except one concern personal experiences about disturbing or difficult moments of their lives. Most songs were written by Petrucci, "A Nightmare to Remember" was based on a childhood car incident; "The Count of Tuscany" was about an actual encounter he had in Tuscany; and "Wither" was about the process of songwriting for him. [9] "The Best of Times" was written by Mike Portnoy about his father, who died from cancer. "I just wanted to write something that was a tribute to our life together," said Portnoy, who played the song for his father prior to his death. [10] "The Shattered Fortress" is the final part of Portnoy's Twelve-step Suite, reprising and concluding themes and motifs from the suite that began on 2002's Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence album. The remaining song, "A Rite of Passage", concerns Freemasonry; a video of the edited single was released on May 8, 2009.

"Wither" was released as a single on September 15, 2009. In addition to the album version of the song, the single contained an alternate version featuring only a piano and vocals, a demo version with John Petrucci on vocals, and a demo version of "The Best of Times” with Mike Portnoy on vocals. There was also a video to follow it which was released on November 18, 2009.

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 68/100 [11]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [12]
Blistering Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [13]
The Metal ForgeStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [14]
Metal Hammer (positive) [15]
Metal ReviewStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [16]
Metal Storm Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [17]
PopMatters 6/10 [18]
Record Collector Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [19]
SputnikmusicStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [20]
411mania.com9.5/10 [21]

Initial critical response to Black Clouds & Silver Linings was generally favorable. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 68, based on five reviews. [11] Rich Wilson, author of Lifting Shadows, previewed the album for Metal Hammer , calling the album "Dream Theater’s finest and most balanced album in a decade." [22] Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic gave the album four out of five stars writing, "Black Clouds & Silver Linings 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." [12] Similarly David Buchanan of Consequence of Sound, an online music magazine, said: "that this release will not necessarily bring in new fans but will also not disappoint the current flock, and this is very true. There are no improvements, but no sheer letdowns, either." He gave the album four and a half stars out of five. [23] The album was named as one of Classic Rock ‘s 10 essential progressive rock albums of the decade. [24]

The album debuted at #6 on the Billboard 200 selling 40,285 copies. [6] It was the first time in the band's history that they had cracked the Top 10 on that chart, and is currently the band's highest single week sales of an album. The album also debuted at #1 on Billboard Top Internet Albums, and #2 on Billboard Top Rock Albums. [25] The album also marked the first time that the band hit the number one spot in Finland.

The album won a 2009 Metal Storm Award for Best Progressive Metal Album. [26]

Track listing

All tracks are written by John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy, Jordan Rudess and John Myung except where noted, per album liner notes

No.TitleLyricsLength
1."A Nightmare to Remember"Petrucci16:10
2."A Rite of Passage"Petrucci8:36
3."Wither" (music: Petrucci)Petrucci5:25
4."The Shattered Fortress"
  • "X. Restraint"
  • "XI. Receive"
  • "XII. Responsible"
Portnoy12:49
5."The Best of Times"Portnoy13:09
6."The Count of Tuscany"Petrucci19:16
Total length:75:25

Special edition tracks

The 3-disc Special Edition included a bonus disc of six cover songs, entitled "Uncovered 2008/2009". These tracks were originally released separately, one per week, in the weeks leading up to the album's release. "To Tame a Land" had been previously released on the 2008 Iron Maiden tribute album Maiden Heaven.

Also included in the three disc special edition are instrumental tracks of the songs, without overdubs or solos. [27]

No.TitleLength
1."A Nightmare to Remember"15:39
2."A Rite of Passage"8:36
3."Wither"5:29
4."The Shattered Fortress"12:47
5."The Best of Times"13:20
6."The Count of Tuscany"18:48
Total length:74:39

Deluxe collector's edition box set

A deluxe collectors’-edition boxed set of the album was also released. Packaged in a silver foil embossed black velvet box the set includes the 3 Special Edition CDs, a 180-Gram Double LP, a DVD with isolated audio tracks for each instrument, a lithograph of the album cover, with only 100 being signed by Hugh Syme, and a mouse pad. Those who pre-ordered were able to download a newly recorded cover song each week beginning on May 19, 2009 until the album's release. 100 box sets contained a "silver ticket" entitling the purchaser and one guest to a meet-and-greet with the band. [28] This version was also a Limited Edition release, only 14,000 were made. [29]

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2009)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [30] 16
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [31] 18
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [32] 36
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [33] 34
Canadian Albums ( Billboard ) [34] 6
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI) [35] 14
Danish Albums (Hitlisten) [36] 26
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [37] 3
Europe (European Top 100 Albums) [38] 1
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [39] 1
French Albums (SNEP) [40] 9
German Albums Chart (Offizielle Top 100) [41] 3
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ) [42] 1
Irish Albums (IRMA) [43] 91
Italian Albums (FIMI) [44] 5
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [45] 8
Mexican Albums (Top 100 Mexico) [30] 7
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [46] 7
Polish Albums (ZPAV) [47] 4
Portuguese Albums (AFP) [48] 14
Scottish Albums (OCC) [49] 15
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [50] 13
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [51] 3
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [52] 9
UK Albums (OCC) [53] 23
US Billboard 200 [6] 6

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