8 Facts About Dream Theater's OCTAVARIUM

[@ZackSeifMusic]

What albums do YOU want to learn more about!?

[@Consigliere089]

Train Of Thought 😁

[@ZackSeifMusic]

@@Consigliere089 great record for sure!!

[@kiwi-chan7005]

Distance over time :]

[@ZackSeifMusic]

@@kiwi-chan7005 One of my favorites!

[@simone7ful]

Fire of Unknown origin from Blue Öyster Cult

[@mezykin]

An exactly 8 minute video on 8 facts about Octavarium makes perfect sense

[@ZackSeifMusic]

It wasn't easy to make it work, but I'm glad it did.

[@simonmclaughlin1184]

Their 8th album too!

[@TheXile_MUSIC]

@@simonmclaughlin1184and with 8 songs, each on one of the 8 natural notes in music.

[@omer-sela-rothenberg]

This was more satisfying than those soap cutting videos

[@mezykin]

@@omer-sela-rothenberg easily

[@JoaoSouza-yy5fh]

I'm here 8 minutes after Portnoy posted on IG about your video

[@charleswilkes2362]

Real

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Legend🙏

[@mezykin]

i'm here because i recently had a Panic Attack

[@M4ttS3nds]

Octavarium (the song) is undoubtedly the most legendary prog metal song off all time and easily dream theaters best song.

[@ZackSeifMusic]

It's definitely one of my favorites!!

[@DavidOakesMusic]

100% their best epic.

[@JK-g62]

​@@ZackSeifMusicChange of Seasons enters the room...lol

[@ChrisChiappini]

Hi Zack! I just saw Mike Portnoy giving this video a shout out on his IG! Awesome video! Today is 137 days until DT at Radio City!!!

[@erikondrums]

Same here!

[@ZackSeifMusic]

I'll be there!!

[@nolanwolf5575]

i’m going to that!

[@ChristofferBeurling]

Going to see them tomorrow! (Saturday) in Oslo! 😄 😄

[@princeofsynth]

"The story ends where it begins" - Awesome video and congrats for the shout out from MP

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Glad you liked it!

[@iiizeroiii1636]

oh snap this video is 8 minutes long exactly. nice touch. cool video man, thanks!

[@malawigw]

also released on the 8th of august.

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Ah, you found out ;)

[@ZackSeifMusic]

@@malawigw Very good eye my friend!

[@malawigw]

@@ZackSeifMusic this video at least. Dream Theater released the album on 7th june 2005 (5,6,7 and 8) ;)

[@TheXile_MUSIC]

8 minute video with 8 facts,released on the 8th month on the 8th day. Talking about Dream Theater’s 8th album, with 8 songs based around the 8 notes in an octave. While this comment is being released on the 8th of November.

[@jomo167]

the genius of this band is on another planet. they are all time greats

[@ZackSeifMusic]

100%

[@VittorioIannucci]

Great video! Another cool fact (which I don't think I've heard in the video) is that the main time signature of each song is mathematically growing in order in the same octave concept: The Root of All Evil, Time signature 1/8. The Answer Lies Within, Time signature 2/8. These Walls, Time signature 3/8. I Walk Beside You, Time signature 4/8. Panic Attack ), Time signature 5/8. Never Enough, Time signature 6/8. Sacrificed Sons, Time signature 7/8. Octavarium, Time signature 8/8.

[@ZebNyan96]

What parts of Never Enough and Sacrificed Sons follow this?

[@dcairol]

Can’t wait to hear Octavarium live in 4 weeks. I’ll comment back after the fact!

[@ZackSeifMusic]

I'm waiting for NYC myself!

[@AlbertoMedinaJ]

Anyone else is here in 2024 because of Mike Portnoy’s instagram post? 😂

[@TheAnalogkid22]

Me 😂

[@ricardosalluca4171]

Yes, me

[@rodneialmeida472]

Yes, I am

[@843Core]

Ayo

[@Snycobat]

Yes haha

[@malawigw]

nice video, I knew all of these facts before (yes, big DT nerd). Looking forward to the next entry in this series!

[@ZackSeifMusic]

That’s awesome! Trying to see what the next one will be based on how this one does😁 Glad you enjoyed it. I have a couple other DT related videos on here you can check out.

[@mecagodzilla3]

Love this format and crazy job on your video editing and facts finding, i think octavarium is a rare example of an album with no bad songs and "octavarium" is one of the best prog songs ever created not just for sheer lenght, you have to listen many many times to it to fully appreciate it as the masterpiece that it is!

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Killer record for sure

[@mattwright466]

Great vid and congrats on the MP shoutout! 😉

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Thanks! 😁

[@apurbaoverdrive]

Respect.... Glad you make this video, we got to know so important stuff about this revolutionary album. I got to know about this video from MP's FB story.

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Really appreciate you checking it out! It means a lot.

[@joelmerrill7860]

I am a huge DT fan.. this was super interesting.. glad I found it in a youtube hole !

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@franekborowiec9648]

thanks Mike for featuring that vid in your insta story. Definitely learned a lot

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Thank you for checking out the full video!

[@BurakOzmucur]

Great video and album! Even the artwork throughout the booklet had a lot of little nuggets. It’s definitely my favorite artwork by the band.

[@ZackSeifMusic]

I totally agree!

[@hafibinbari]

What a great timing! I'm watching this video on the anniversary of this album!

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Look at that timing!!

[@rubenmolinares]

Although I knew all these facts, I didn't know about this video even though it is 3 years old now! I love that the information is accurate, and that thanks to you more and more people will know all these crazy/geeky/nerdy details that have been present on DT's music. I haven't checked if you already did it, but a video about Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence would be just... 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Glad you enjoyed it! 6DOIT is a phenomenal record.

[@arthurlarrubia]

man I loved this haha would love to see you dive deep into the themes and real world events behind the DT song "a change of seasons".

[@ZackSeifMusic]

That would be a task haha, one of my favorite songs for sure

[@martinjelinek3676]

Panic Attack is in key of C...You just should have said KFC by this point :D

[@ZackSeifMusic]

You make a valid point

[@GamingDrummer89]

Another tie-in to the fade in and fade out being the same on this album is the last line of Octavarium: "The story ends where it began". Also, if you look at the CD itself, it has an octagon with a star inside of it. The octagon represents the 8 whole tones in an octave while the star represents the 5 semitones in an octave.

[@ZackSeifMusic]

You can listen to it on repeat forever!

[@suleviamusic]

Great video! Learned some things I didn’t know 😄

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Glad it was helpful!

[@sky173]

Interesting facts. I've been a DT fan since (almost) day one and didn't know some of this. Thanks for sharing.

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Thanks for watching!

[@Wilmer778]

Reminds me of what Pink Floyd did on The Wall: "Isn't this where we came in?" As a kid, the "we came in" part at the beginning of disc 1 used to annoy me so much, because I thought it's a recording/mixing mistake of some sort and since I never liked the song Outside The Wall at the end of disc 2 much as a kid, I used to always skip it, until I grew up and decided I HAVE to listen to it, whether I like it or not, because it's part of the story and the musical journey and thát's when I discovered the second "mistake": "Isn't this where", so I finally connected the dots and went like: DAMN GENIUSES!!! :O

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Easter eggs like that are so cool to discover in music!

[@Wilmer778]

@@ZackSeifMusic Yeah and that line's very much true as well: after you destroyed your wall and get exposed to everything you built your wall for in the fist place, you start uilding it up again, brick by brick. Roger Waters might be a bit of a mental case these days, but he's a very smart bloke nevertheless. :)

[@LeslieWolf71]

Great video, offered by Mike Protnoy himself :) On the 1st of November we had the pleasure to enjoy the songs Octavarium and Sacrificed Sons live in Budapest, Hungary (and quite a lot more European venus as well). This album is really an underrated masterpice. Thanks for the cool information! Greetings from Hungary.

[@ZackSeifMusic]

My pleasure! Thank you so much for watching it.

[@Ismarnoff]

Just saw Mike Portnoy recommending your video and now, it's the first suggestion for me. So cool!

[@ZackSeifMusic]

That's awesome to hear!! Thanks for checking it out.

[@DavidOakesMusic]

9. It's still my favourite Dream Theater album. But I haven't heard the new one yet.

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Octavarium is a SOLID record top to bottom

[@TheRise08]

What an awesome video. And explained in such a calm and clear way, very nice :) 'The Perfect Element: Part 1' or 'Remedy Lane', both by Pain of Salvation, would be an interesting listen!

[@ZackSeifMusic]

I never got super into POS, but after reading this comment I'll have to dive deeper into their discography!

[@TheRise08]

@@ZackSeifMusic I guarantee you won't regret it! 'Be' is a very recommended third option :)

[@Rise7]

Fact 2: it has 8 songs Wow had no idea. Like the video, fantastic album and glad you liked it enough to make a video on it, but even just from reading the Wikipedia page I knew all these

[@Mendelian]

1. Lovely video 2. That TwoNotes loadbox is doing your JP-2C a disservice. Dive into the Driftwood Loadbox which reacts like a Mesa Cab and doesn’t cut off the low end of the amp.

[@Jöe-877]

And this video is 8 minute, have 8 fact and released on the 8th of august (eight month of the year) very cool detail

[@ZackSeifMusic]

It's the little things!

[@MetalJesusRocks]

I just saw Mike Portnoy’s shoutout of this video…so I had to check it out. Good job! 🤘

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Really appreciate it, thanks mate!

[@jozefswistak3226]

I rather expected some deeper facts. The everything from this video I knew before. You even didn't find out some more additional stuff hidden deeper in the song: 1. The Root of All Evil is a part of Twelve Step Suite (the song also has 3 part) - a long song story of getting out of alcoholism which start with The Glass Prison and ends with The Shattered Fortress. 2. The Octavarium song also contains all songs from the album to played from playback while the vocalist screams. 3. The Octavarium song also contains a part where there are sung titles of the band members' favorite songs. Also the instrumental includes Jingle Bells jingle.

[@trevortabone6863]

Very cool, thanks !

[@ZackSeifMusic]

You bet! Thanks for the support!

[@brenofig]

Thanks for the video, greetings from Brazil!

[@ZackSeifMusic]

My pleasure!

[@kirot616]

if you rotate the 8 90 degrees, you'll obtain the infinite symbol, which makes sense if you think of the loop that create the last and first song

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Great observation!!! That's something I didn't think of.

[@russgoos4628]

Very, very cool. I had no idea.

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Glad you liked it!

[@brentp1875]

The final words of Octavarium are "this story ends where it began".

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Great way to restart the album on repeat.

[@DrFix82]

Mike Portnoy sent me here.

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Love to hear that!

[@RadarThirtyOne]

Holy smokes! I’m a lifelong DT fan and didn’t know any of this. I’m a failure! 😞 😂 Great video! Thanks for educating me on this! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Glad it was helpful!

[@telegraphstop1924]

i dont know if you’ll see this but i stumbled upon this video wondering if dream theater was inspired by boston’s song Foreplay / Long Time in the making of octavarium (the song). i just noticed that during foreplay, the song sounds kinda similar to first like quarter of octavarium. could be wrong but i just wanted to know if u had heard anything like that or at least understand the connection i made?

[@ZackSeifMusic]

That is a fantastic question, I wish I knew the answer! Mike Portnoy would know the answer ha ha. But that is a really good observation.

[@mkallend]

Amazing.

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Thanks!

[@AtomizedSound]

Mike Portnoy directed me here. Congrats to you

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Many thanks!!

[@MartyDTVP]

DT the best. Good vid.

[@ZackSeifMusic]

You already know! Thanks for watching.

[@SorooshMhs]

I see what you did there with the roman numerals 😏

[@ZackSeifMusic]

I'm glad someone noticed!

[@Cybothron]

more please

[@ZackSeifMusic]

What would you like to see next?

[@boendahbandofficial8628]

​@@ZackSeifMusic please DT - the count of tuscany

[@nilsguisson]

Mike Portnoy brought me to this video

[@ZackSeifMusic]

I can't believe how old this video is already, appreciate you checking it out.

[@jaimieseejaimiedo]

Same!!

[@maralendaan]

Almost 8k views, nice

[@ZackSeifMusic]

8 is the best number for this haha

[@JoelWard1]

THIS is why I miss Portnoy. Not for his drumming, I think Mangini is a better drummer, but oh how I wish they'd kept Portnoy involved as a producer. If only LaBrie could stop being such a child, we could end up with an epic new DT album with Portnoys touch on it.

[@ZackSeifMusic]

It's definitely a noticeable difference.

[@DavidOakesMusic]

Dream Theater formed in '85 hence the proliferation of 5's and 8's in their whole career.

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Great observation!!

[@DavidOakesMusic]

@@ZackSeifMusic on The Astonishing front cover there are 8 NOMAC and there are 5 NOMAC tracks on the album.

[@Octavarium-mi7sd]

Didnt know Jeff Nippard was a fan of Dream Theater.

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Minus the biceps 😂

[@robblackwell6766]

aoxomoxoa by the grateful dead or time of the last persecution by bill fay!

[@ZackSeifMusic]

I will have to check those out!! Have not listened to them yet.

[@DavidOakesMusic]

Haha Fact Diminished Vii

[@cpamiseso]

It's in 8 minutes as well. Very, octaminutos.

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Oh yeah, it was hard to get it exact!

[@xJayKnight]

Admit it, you know a ton of other obscure facts about this album. You just wanted to keep it at 8 to keep with the theme :D

[@ZackSeifMusic]

HOW COULD I NOT! It just happens to be the 8th day of the 8th month of the year as well, and the video is 8 minutes long..... ;)

[@xJayKnight]

@@ZackSeifMusic Holy crap. Are you the chosen one?!

[@ZackSeifMusic]

@@xJayKnight I think I have too much extra time these days despite working 6 days a week and being on the road LOL

[@ChanceTheChancenator]

8th Like! 🤘

[@ZackSeifMusic]

💵YOU WIN💵 Unfortunately I don’t have a prize to give you but I believe that that should definitely count for something😂

[@ChanceTheChancenator]

@@ZackSeifMusic in my opinion, the fact that you gave my comment a ❤ and even replied to my comment is already an awesome prize. So, thank you for that! 😁 Also: thanks for this awesome video.

[@ZackSeifMusic]

@@ChanceTheChancenator I appreciate the support! I love making these videos for everyone to see and share.

[@robertdentato9394]

It's the album that turned me on to DT. I went over a buddies house and he was blasting the jam section to Sacrificed Sons. That driving bass line stopped me dead. I thought who the FK are THESE guys

[@ZackSeifMusic]

That's awesome!!

[@robertdentato9394]

@ZackSeifMusic its when the album first came out, that's how long I've been a fan. I've since seen them 5 times, plus JP on his solo tour last November. Got tix for Tool next month. How about do one of their albums?

[@welfiblablabla]

Ok, but I still think Train of Thought is their best album 😇

[@ZackSeifMusic]

ToT is SO heavy!

[@jamesdunlopmetal]

Great video! Also, the callbacks in the Intervals section of Octavarium each refer to the 8 songs of the album and their respective key ROOT - Our deadly sins feel his mortal wrath, remove all obstacles from our path SECOND - Asking questions search for clues, the answers been right in front of you THIRD - Try to break through, long to connect, fall on deaf ears and failed muted breath FOURTH - Loyalty, trust, faith and desire, carries love through each darkest fire FIFTH - A tortured insanity, a smothering hell, try to escape but to no avail SIXTH - The calls of admirers, who claim they adore, drain all your life blood while begging for more SEVENTH - Innocent victims of merciless crimes, fall prey to some madmen's impulsive designs OCTAVE - Step after step, we try controlling our fate, when we finally start living it has become too late TRAPPED INSIDE THIS OCTAVARIUM

[@ZackSeifMusic]

This is so cool!!!

[@MartintheMetalhead]

LOL Dream Theater is playing this song live for the first time since 2006.

[@ZackSeifMusic]

I'm stoked to hear it

[@hahaheslop]

12 notes in music, 8 notes in a major scale.

[@mubtasimzihan]

After Mike Portnoy's Post

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Lets go!

[@boendahbandofficial8628]

please reactian dream theater - the count of tuscany

[@ZackSeifMusic]

MY FAVORITE song by them!

[@MrFracka]

Amazing analysis, not particularly fan of this record. I would listen to song Octavarium but I can’t because supper’s ready😂

[@ZackSeifMusic]

Haha that's awesome

[@jeffnorthcutt7899]

IMO... just the lyrics on this song>Anything MM has contributed