Dream Theater: ‘The Enemy Inside’ Music Video Release
The prog metallers Dream Theater's self-titled album is out and has not disappointed the fans. The victorious return of the band with Mark Mangini on drums is something fans are really happy about.
The 12th studio album is powerful to say the least and the music video of the song "The Enemy Inside" deals with war and life of a soldier. Bill Fishman who has worked with the Ramones and Steve Ray Vaughan directed the music video for Dream Theater.
This is after a long time that Dream Theater decided to do an entirely conceptual video instead of featuring the band members.
In an interview with Billboard, John Petrucci, guitarist said, "At the time we didn't envision it being a single or a video. It just was kind of like this song that was in the technical vein that we love to do." He said that the lyrics and the chorus parts "grabbed a lot of people that heard it right from the beginning, so not only within the band but at Roadrunner, a bunch of people said, 'Wow, I really like that particular song.'"
The video shows post-traumatic stress disorder or PSTD and Petrucci said that the song really fit as it has fast-paced riffs.
The song has "kind of machine gun riffs. It almost makes you feel anxious," he said.
Petrucci also shared that the song in a way is related to the Boston Marathon bombings that happened when he was writing this song.
"Also at the time that we were in the studio working on the album and I was writing lyrics, the Boston Marathon bombings happened. There was a lot of discussion of terrorism and PTSD as if affects people who witness traumatic events like terrorism, so it was just very on my mind. It linked very well with the mood of the song, and as we started to get into it, I watched some documentaries and things like that. I was like, 'This is really something that needs to be written about.'"
Watch the official lyric video.
Video Courtesy: YouTube/dreamtheater