Systematic Chaos is the ninth studio release of the progressive metal band Dream Theater. It is Dream Theater's first album with Roadrunner Records.

Systematic Chaos was written and recorded from September 2006 to January 2007 at Avatar Studios in New York City, co-produced by drummer Mike Portnoy and guitarist John Petrucci and engineered by Paul Northfield. The final mix was signed off on Valentine's Day, February 14, 2007. The final master of the CD was finished and the track listing was released on February 21, 2007. It is scheduled for release on June 5, 2007. Along with a standard version, the album will be released as a Special Edition containing the standard CD, along with a DVD containing a 5.1 mix of the album and a 90 minute documentary detailing the making of the album entitled "Chaos in Progress - The Making of Systematic Chaos."
In an interview with Tama.com, drummer Mike Portnoy described the album as "Heavy and technical, powerful and dynamic — all of the elements that people kind of expect out of a Dream Theater album. All of the styles and sounds are intact, but we wanted to make it a real sonic explosion. It's very dramatic and aggressive."
Fifty Dream Theater fans from the New York area were given the opportunity to perform on the new album in January 2007 through Portnoy's Internet forum, and have provided chants on "Prophets of War", as well as on "In the Presence of Enemies, pt. 2".

"Repentance", the fifth track of the album, is the fourth song in Mike Portnoy's series of songs about his experience with alcoholism, following "The Glass Prison" on Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, "This Dying Soul" on Train of Thought and "The Root of All Evil" on Octavarium. It will represent the eighth and ninth steps of the Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step program.

The song "Constant Motion" is the first single off the album, released on April 27, and an accompanying music video is in production. Before it was announced as a single, it was speculated as being an instrumental track due to it being the only song on the album without an announced lyricist, but this is not the case, and the album is now the third album without an instrumental track as with Images and Words and Octavarium. The song is available for download from Roadrunner Records at this location and from their official Myspace-Profile.

According to Mike Portnoy, who is also one of the producers, "In The Presence Of Enemies" was split merely for the sake of the record's track order, being so it is still a single composition. He elaborated that the two tracks would be played live consecutively. This would make "In The Presence Of Enemies" the second longest single Dream Theater song, counting 25:38 minutes.

Track listing
"In the Presence of Enemies, Pt. 1" - 9:00 (Dream Theater, lyrics by Petrucci)
I. Prelude
II. Resurrection
"Forsaken" - 5:36 (Dream Theater, lyrics by Petrucci)
"Constant Motion" - 6:55 (Dream Theater, lyrics by Portnoy)
"The Dark Eternal Night" - 8:51 (Dream Theater, lyrics by Petrucci)
"Repentance" - 10:43 (Dream Theater, lyrics by Portnoy)
VIII. Regret
IX. Restitution
"Prophets of War" - 6:01 (Dream Theater, lyrics by LaBrie)
"The Ministry of Lost Souls" - 14:57 (Dream Theater, lyrics by Petrucci)
"In the Presence of Enemies, Pt. 2" - 16:38 (Dream Theater, lyrics by Petrucci)
III. Heretic
IV. The Slaughter of the Damned
V. The Reckoning
VI. Salvation

Band
James LaBrie – Vocals
John Myung – Bass
John Petrucci – Guitar, backing vocals
Mike Portnoy – Drums, percussion and backing vocals
Jordan Rudess – Keyboards, Continuum, Roland VP-550 (vocal processing keyboard)

Part one: http://rapidshare.com/files/25067175/Dream_Theater_-_Systematic_Chaos-BK.part1.rar

Part two: http://rapidshare.com/files/25096739/Dream_Theater_-_Systematic_Chaos-BK.part2.rar

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