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 offered an attention-grabbing response.
“If I am being trustworthy, I feel it picks up proper the place Black Clouds left off, to be trustworthy. There is a sure fashion that the 5 of us have once we write collectively. And in case you hearken to the album with this lineup from 1999, Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Reminiscence, by way of 2009’s Black Clouds & Silver Linings, in case you have a look at that string of 5 or 6 albums, that is the sound and magnificence of those 5 individuals. So, I feel that is a superb indication of what you’ll be able to anticipate with the brand new Dream Theater album. It undoubtedly 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 popularity because the leaders within the progressive metallic style. It was additionally the final album to function Portnoy on drums, a interval that may shut when the upcoming album arrives.
In a chat with The Prog Report some weeks in the past, Portnoy spoke concerning the album’s recordings and the band old-school strategy to it: “It is a lengthy course of. I have never spent this a lot time making an album in a very long time, as a result of often NMB [Neal Morse Band] or Flying Colours or no matter, you type of get collectively, do the writing and the monitoring, and all people 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 separately to work and report.”
“So, yeah, it is a longer course of than I’ve had in fairly a while. But it surely’s nice… It is the previous approach. It is the best way I all the time made information with Dream Theater. I simply hadn’t accomplished it that approach in so lengthy, however it’s good. And the method is admittedly detailed this manner. In all these different bands and initiatives, everybody type of simply does their very own factor on their very own time at their very own place. However this actually offers an actual unified type of band vibe.”
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