It Definitely Sounds Like Classic DREAM THEATER

In a current dialogue with Brazil’s Marcelo Vieira and Matheus Ribeiro, Dream Theater’s drummer Mike Portnoy shared extra insights on the band’s eagerly anticipated sixteenth studio album. When requested if the brand new album continues the trajectory of their 2009 launch Black Clouds & Silver Linings or ventures into new territory, Portnoy supplied an fascinating response.

“If I am being sincere, I believe it picks up proper the place Black Clouds left off, to be sincere. There is a sure type that the 5 of us have once we write collectively. And when you hearken to the album with this lineup from 1999, Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Reminiscence, via 2009’s Black Clouds & Silver Linings, when you have a look at that string of 5 – 6 albums, that is the sound and magnificence of those 5 folks. So, I believe that is a very good indication of what you’ll be able to anticipate with the brand new Dream Theater album. It positively seems like basic Dream Theater.”

Black Clouds & Silver Linings was the band’s tenth studio album, launched on June 23, 2009. It was well-received for its mix of technical proficiency, emotional depth, and cohesive storytelling, solidifying Dream Theater‘s fame because the leaders within the progressive steel style. It was additionally the final album to characteristic Portnoy on drums, a interval that can shut when the upcoming album arrives.

In a chat with The Prog Report some weeks ago, Portnoy spoke in regards to the album’s recordings and the band old-school method to it: “It is a lengthy course of. I have not spent this a lot time making an album in a very long time, as a result of normally NMB [Neal Morse Band] or Flying Colours or no matter, you sort of get collectively, do the writing and the monitoring, and everyone does it at house. However Dream Theater continues to be old skool the place the band is within the studio the entire time. And it isn’t like anyone’s doing something at house individually. We do all of it collectively, coming in one after the other to work and report.”

“So, yeah, it is a longer course of than I’ve had in fairly a while. Nevertheless it’s nice… It is the previous means. It is the way in which I all the time made information with Dream Theater. I simply hadn’t performed it that means in so lengthy, however it’s good. And the method is basically detailed this fashion. In all these different bands and initiatives, everybody sort of simply does their very own factor on their very own time at their very own place. However this actually provides an actual unified sort of band vibe.”