Credit: Photo by Mark Maryanovich

Credit: Photo by Mark Maryanovich

For the first time in two decades, members of Dream Theater holed up in a studio where they wrote and recorded for four months. The result was the prog-rock heavyweight’s 14th studio LP, Distance Over Time, which will be celebrated at this Mahaffey Theater show that also commemorates the 20th anniversary of classic concept album Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory.

Dream Theater. Fri. April 26. Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg. themahaffey.com.

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