Cyclorama (album)

Cyclorama
Studio album by Styx
Released	February 18, 2003
Recorded	2002
Studio	Various Pumpkin Studios, Chicago, IL The S.H.O.P., Los Angeles, CA Dr CAW Recording, Northbrook, IL Colorado Sound, Denver, CO Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA The Cave, Los Angeles, CA Seventeenth Avenue Productions, Manville, NJ Pond, North Brunswick, NJ Your Place or Mine, Glendale, CA
Genre	Hard rock, progressive rock
Length	57:59
Label	Sanctuary/CMC International
Producer	Tommy Shaw, James "JY" Young, Gary Loizzo
Styx chronology
Brave New World (1999) Cyclorama (2003) Big Bang Theory (2005)
Singles from Cyclorama
"Waiting for Our Time" Released: 2003

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
411Mania	(10/10) [1]
AllMusic	[2]
Chicago Tribune	(unfavorable) [3]
Melodic.net	[4]
Rolling Stone	[5]

Cyclorama is the fourteenth studio album by Styx, released in 2003. This was the first studio album with Lawrence Gowan, following the departure of group co-founder Dennis DeYoung in 1999. It was also the latter of two albums to feature Glen Burtnik (the former being 1990's Edge of the Century), and the only album released by the Lawrence Gowan/Tommy Shaw/James "JY" Young/Glen Burtnik/Chuck Panozzo/Todd Sucherman lineup, and as such the only original Styx album to feature four different singer-songwriters (Shaw, Young, Gowan and Burtnik) as opposed to the usual three. The album peaked significantly higher on the Billboard album charts than Styx's previous release, Brave New World (1999), ending up 48 slots higher at No. 127 (1 week), but paled in comparison to previous 1970s and 1980s releases on A&M Records.

The album's first single was "Waiting for Our Time," which failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. It charted at #37 for 1 week on the Mainstream Rock charts. A video was released for the single "Yes I Can," but it failed to chart.

The album was also released as a "Dual Disc," with the reverse side of the disc containing a 5.1 DVD-Audio mix as well as music videos. The album was finally released to streaming services in 2020.