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 offered 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 fashion that the 5 of us have once we write collectively. And if you happen to hearken to the album with this lineup from 1999, Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Reminiscence, by 2009’s Black Clouds & Silver Linings, if you happen to have a look at that string of 5 or 6 albums, that is the sound and magnificence of those 5 individuals. So, I believe that is a superb indication of what you may anticipate with the brand new Dream Theater album. It undoubtedly feels like traditional 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 status because the leaders within the progressive metallic style. It was additionally the final album to characteristic Portnoy on drums, a interval that may shut when the upcoming album arrives.

In a chat with The Prog Report some weeks ago, Portnoy spoke concerning the album’s recordings and the band old-school method 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 normally NMB [Neal Morse Band] or Flying Colours or no matter, you sort of get collectively, do the writing and the monitoring, and all people does it at dwelling. However Dream Theater continues to be old fashioned the place the band is within the studio the entire time. And it isn’t like anyone’s doing something at dwelling individually. We do all of it collectively, coming in separately to work and file.”

“So, yeah, it is a longer course of than I’ve had in fairly a while. However it’s nice… It is the previous method. It is the best way I at all times made data with Dream Theater. I simply hadn’t accomplished it that method in so lengthy, however it’s good. And the method is absolutely 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 offers an actual unified sort of band vibe.”