It’s a very special episode of Talking Into Infinity as we chat with the alien himself – Mr. Mike Mangini! He’s got a solo record coming out later this year titled Invisible Signs and recently dropped the killer first single Freak of Nature – he’s here to tell us all about his newest musical adventure!

After that it’s fan vs. fan on TII as a grudge match that has been boiling for months on the show finally explodes! Longtime listeners and sometime cohosts Sean Faust, Chastadi Crawley and Cael McLeish jump into the Octagon to settle it once and for all – is the title track to 2005’s Octavarium an absolute masterpiece – or an overblown, bloated mess? Jon moderates this once-in-a-lifetime battle of DT superfan heavyweights!

After having ranked the songs on DT’s debut record, we’re back with another song ranking – pulled at random – and this episode we fall on 1999’s masterpiece Metropolis Pt.2: Scenes from a Memory! How do you rank the songs on a concept album? We’re about to find out!

It’s been 35 years since the release of Metallica’s masterpiece …And Justice For All, so we decided to deep dive the album and give our thoughts on this absolutely classic slab of metal! This is one of the two most influential records in Jon’s life, and fans worldwide have continually ranked this album either #1 or #2 in the band’s entire discography! We give our thoughts on this landmark album!

It’s the next entry in our series of “you can’t have DT”, so… it’s 1999 and you walk into the record store to buy Scenes From A Memory… and the clerk tells you that you CAN’T buy it! You HAVE to choose something

We’ve done a deep dive into DT’s debut record – but we haven’t discussed how we would rank the songs in order from worst to first. Let’s face it, Dream Theater is like pizza – even when it isn’t great, it’s incredibly good – so how can we possibly pit great songs against great songs? It’s time to find out, and we’re starting where it all began – 1989’s When Dream and Day Unite!

We are back from the Mammoth WVH/Sevendust/Alter Bridge show in Cleveland and we have plenty to talk about! Tonight we are winging it and discussing anything musical that comes to mind!

Jon is headed to Burgettstown, PA to catch Pantera on their current tour, so what better time to dig into what almost every Pantera fan considers their greatest record – the absolute CLASSIC Vulgar Display Of Power! We don’t have many superlatives to present here that haven’t already been used, so… grab a Black Tooth Grin, getcha pull, and let’s do it Lone Star State style once again with Wayne Joyner – as well as the mighty Chris Akin!

Jon is back from Newport, Kentucky where he caught the Dreamsonic tour and he has some stories to tell! Since we’re on the topic of DT live, we attempt to write a setlist using only ONE song per album – and we CAN’T use songs we have gushed over a LOT on the show previously!

Brian is back and we are FINALLY talking some Sons Of Apollo on TII! We’ve dug into some seriously kickass records on the show and it’s about time that we talk about Psychotic Symphony, the amazing debut from SOA! Sheehan, Soto, Bumblefoot and, of course  - Sherinian and Portnoy – what’s not to like? We go track by track and give our thoughts on one of the most criminally underrated prog records (and bands) you’re likely to find!

Brian had a last-minute commitment come up – so we’re switching gears on this week’s show! One of Jon’s good musician buddies – a self-professed huge Van Halen fan – is just NOW discovering the David Lee Roth era of the band! What are his impressions of the seven DLR records? How do they stack up against the Sammy albums? And, most importantly – how can this happen?? Grab your brown M&M’s and get ready to dance the night away as we dig into some untouchable rock classics! Booz-de-booz-de-bop!