Progressive metal titans Dream Theater have officially launched the spring/summer 2025 leg of their 40th Anniversary European Tour, opening the run on June 3 at Logomo in Turku, Finland. The band’s setlist pulled from across their expansive catalog and marked the latest chapter in a milestone year.
Ahead of the tour, drummer Mike Portnoy shared his excitement on social media: “Our summer 2025 European tour is gonna be a great cross section of festival dates and some very special ‘Evening With’ headlining shows in some incredibly gorgeous & unique settings! (I’m personally so excited about playing the legendary venue in Pompeii where Pink Floyd filmed their film over 50 years ago…as well as the 2-night stand with different setlists at the gorgeous amphitheater in Plovdiv).”
He added: “Places we haven’t played yet (Greece, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, etc) will get a variation of the DT40 show…places we are returning to since the last EU leg (Italy, Germany, Finland, Poland etc) will get a new setlist…and the festivals will each have their own variations based on set times…and just to re-iterate, the formal Parasomnia Tour will begin in the US in Sept and continue around the world into 2026…”
The June 3 concert in Turku featured the following setlist, which includes the first time the band plays “The Enemy Inside” with Portnoy on drums:
- “Night Terror”
- “Act I: Scene Two: II. Strange Déjà Vu”
- “Act I: Scene Three: I. Through My Words” (First time since 2020)
- “Act I: Scene Three: II. Fatal Tragedy” (First time since 2020)
- “Panic Attack”
- “The Enemy Inside” (first time with Portnoy; first time since 2014)
- “Midnight Messiah”
- “A Rite Of Passage”
- “Hollow Years” (’96 demo version)
- “The Dark Eternal Night”
- “Peruvian Skies” (First time since 2019; with “Wish You Were Here” and “Wherever I May Roam” excerpts)
- “Take The Time” (abridged version; first time since 2017)
Encore:
13. “As I Am”
14. “Pull Me Under”
The band’s U.S. audiences can look forward to Dream Theater’s summer/fall 2025 An Evening With Dream Theater tour, which will spotlight their latest chart-topping sixteenth studio album, Parasomnia. The tour will visit 30 U.S. cities, starting September 5 in Reading, Pennsylvania, and concluding October 25 in Long Island, New York. Along the way, stops include Orlando, Florida; Detroit, Michigan; Kansas City, Missouri; and Providence, Rhode Island. The band will perform Parasomnia in full, alongside classic material.
