Dream Theater Begin Work on Their Seventeenth Album

Dream Theater at Ytse Jam Studios, October 2026. Photo shared by Dream Theater.

Dream Theater are back in the studio working on the follow-up to Parasomnia. The band confirmed the news on 13 October, sharing a photograph of all five members at Ytse Jam Studios with the caption: “#DT17 is underway…”

The forthcoming release will be their seventeenth studio album and the second since Mike Portnoy rejoined the band in 2023. Parasomnia, released in February 2025, was their first studio recording with the drummer since Black Clouds & Silver Linings in 2009.

The sessions follow the timeline James LaBrie outlined earlier this year, when he suggested the band would begin writing and recording in late 2026 or early 2027 after a break from touring.

No title, tracklist or release date has been announced. For now, fans can look forward to discovering where LaBrie, Petrucci, Myung, Rudess and Portnoy take their renewed creative partnership next.