description Octavarium Overview
Octavarium is the eighth full-length studio album by the American progressive metal band Dream Theater, released in 2005. The record is a concept album built around a thematic framework of the number eight, featuring eight tracks that span various musical styles. It is best known for its closing title track, a nearly twenty-four-minute suite that constitutes the band's longest studio recording. The album was the band's final release with Atlantic Records before they moved to Roadrunner Records.
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Why does the number eight appear throughout Octavarium?
Octavarium is Dream Theater's eighth studio album and contains eight songs, while its artwork repeatedly combines imagery based on five and eight. The title also refers to an octave returning to its starting note at a higher pitch.
How long is the song "Octavarium"?
The title track runs exactly 24 minutes and is divided into five named sections. It closes the album with recurring musical and lyrical references to cycles, influences, and returning to the beginning.
Which Octavarium songs use an orchestra?
"The Answer Lies Within," "Sacrificed Sons," and "Octavarium" feature orchestral arrangements conducted by Jamshied Sharifi. These were Dream Theater's first studio recordings with an orchestra.
Where does "The Root of All Evil" fit into Mike Portnoy's twelve-step suite?
The song covers the sixth and seventh parts of Portnoy's Alcoholics Anonymous-inspired suite. The sequence began with "The Glass Prison" on Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence and concluded on Black Clouds & Silver Linings.
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