The Drums Are Done!!!!

oh damn didn't see this coming. again, i remember the argument that spending a lot of time writing doesn't necessarily mean a good album (cough gnr cough), and vice versa, so just cause this was quick does not mean its not going to be good.

i wonder when this will be released. i'm pretty pumped already. i hope first half of the year!! june is probable. i hope they do little snippet releases like for SC.

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I'm excited

And with this release I'm not going to read any threads with spoilers nor will I look at/listen to any previews.

I WILL make it this time!

I'm going to do the same, we should all form a group and try to be strong it won't be an easy task

MP's post has put me into such a happy mood, sounds amazing, thanks MP! I could not be anymore excited!

Oh god I'm game for this... it would be wonderful to listen to the album for the first time with no expectations or anticipating sections I've heard about etc. I'm up for trying too!!

 

ORIGINAL: UltravariusPatriot
the setlist that you provided us as example for the tracks of the new album, leads us to a brand new double album.

 
Where are you guys getting this idea from? Everything in Mike's posting points to another
~75 minute album with the writing process ending when they ran out of space on the CD.

I'd have to stop coming to the forum as soon as they released the first clip.

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ORIGINAL: UltravariusPatriot
the setlist that you provided us as example for the tracks of the new album, leads us to a brand new double album.

Where are you guys getting this idea from? Everything in Mike's posting points to another
~75 minute album with the writing process ending when they ran out of space on the CD.

 
not necessarily
as far as i'm concerned, nothing is official until MP says it is
 
 
i would love for it to be another double album though

BAM! Hit Em With A Freezepop!

I'm sooooo exited! man, this album is gonna kick ass!!!!

Cannot wait!

so, theres 5 tracks on this album...
 

/not to be taken seriously at all.

 
so this album is going to be more or less epic.
 
/meant to be taken seriously
 

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I'm excited

And with this release I'm not going to read any threads with spoilers nor will I look at/listen to any previews.

I WILL make it this time!

I'm going to do the same, we should all form a group and try to be strong it won't be an easy task

MP's post has put me into such a happy mood, sounds amazing, thanks MP! I could not be anymore excited!

Oh god I'm game for this... it would be wonderful to listen to the album for the first time with no expectations or anticipating sections I've heard about etc. I'm up for trying too!!

 
count me in!! 
 
CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Uh Mike . . .

I think you hit a "nerve' here.

THE NERVE YOU GOT TO BE TEASING US HERE!!!!!! FOR ME TO POOP ON!!!!!!

why must you taunt us sooooo!

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So that's 5 songs,
4 on disk 1, one epic (+-24m) (COS), 1 metal/commecial (+-8m) (PMU), 1 very heavy (+-15m) (GP) and 1 epic prog (+-15m) (LTL) = 62 minutes
disk 2: Last episode AA saga: +- 50m (8v) (split up in 3 parts, one for every step)

I may be wrong be a few minutes perhaps ;)

Or are my expectations too heigh?

I thinking mike is not talkng about the length.

http://www.lastfm.com.br/user/Muller-_-

Not that Mike put unbelievably high expectations on this album or anything...but if it's anything like ACOS, LTL, OV, PMU, or TGP I'd be pretty freakin' happy.  Especially ACOS and LTL.  Those 2 songs are brilliant.

Do we really have to wait until May/June?

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Double album? You mean entire second disc based solely on the last part of the AA suite?

Damn, now there's an idea.  The regular album, including the last piece of the suite and then a bonus disc of the entire suite pieced together properly by the band.  That would absolutely blow me right the fuck away.

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ORIGINAL: ganpondorodf

Hmmm... With the description MP gave, maybe it's the third disc of the Greatest Hit compilation : The Epic Side

In all seriousness though, I hope there's an instrumental track on this.

Believe it or not, I created my own The Epic Side for my iPod.  Mine runs as....
Metropolis Part 1
Learning to Live
A Mind Besides Itself
Scarred
A Change of Seasons
Hell's Kitchen/Lines In The Sand
Trial Of Tears
Beyond This Life
In The Presence of Enemies (both parts spliced together)
first 4 parts of the AA suite edited to one song

ORIGINAL: Kyo

It seems there is a massive lack of overanalyzing Mike's message here, so here's what we know for sure so far:

i for one will be writing a letter of disgust to the band if anything you have said does not come true

after all, it was confirmed by the band

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AAAHH!!
I just fell of my chair!!!
CANNOT WAIT!!

my chair fell off me

Acronyms: Just Say NO!

"Yeah S is definitely the best song on A, but V is right up there too. O however is far and away the top song on O"

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ORIGINAL: aresh
AAAHH!!
I just fell of my chair!!!
CANNOT WAIT!!

my chair fell off me

You don't happen to live in Russia, do you?

Incredible I can´t wait for this new chapter in DT History
Mike your description sounds awesome .... Is it gonna be 
the entire history as one?...
Great!! just I know that I gonna love this new baby...
Mike your work is done... now I think  you're concerned
in the other instruments ... tring everything fit...
 
 Cya Mike
Greetings from Chile
remember
12/06/2005
20.000 people
this's your home
bye
 

TRYING

and this is what kills me....

you finished touring in what, May....then played with LTE for a tad....took a few months off...

HOW DO YOU WRITE YOUR MUSIC SO DAMN FAST AND IT ENDS UP ALWAYS BEING DIFFERENT THEN ANYTHING ELSE YOU'VE WRITTEN!?!?!?!!???!?!?!
 
While I wont speculate about your hair, I would like to know if you have an idea of when it's coming out...Spring?
 
Happy thanksgiving everyone


I'm the guy with the stupid smile.

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Well, normally I wont share any studio info for fear of over speculation and analyzation (yes, there's another thread in the Forum with 21 pages of people talking about mine and JP's hair based on Jordan's studio diary!)....
 
But I felt the need to share this excitement with y'all:
 
Today I finished my drum tracks for the new Dream Theater album! 
 
And as I normally never give away song descriptions, titles, lengths, etc....I will say just this:
 
Imagine a DT album with A Change Of Seasons, Octavarium, Learning To Live, Pull Me Under and The Glass Prison....all on one album....
 
COULD YOU HANDLE IT??????? 
 
Excited?
I sure am!!!!
 
Happy Turkey Day Everybody,
MP
 

Oh Lord!!! I totally forgot to mention this . . .

Now that I am a part of this Forum

Mike!!! Remember that WICKED SOUND that Jordan did on his Keys, that you said "We should have used that for the
Deep Purple Tribute!" . . . HECK!!! use it for the NEW album, that "Hammond Organ" sound (that "goes to 11") was
really an excellent sound and I was just as impressed as you were . . . DO IT MAN, DO IT!!!

I gotta' go to sleep! So I can eat Turkey, suffer from Triptofan . . . and go to sleep again!!!

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At the rate they're going, I reckon this could be out by the end of March.

Shit, now I'll be extremely disappointed if this isn't the greatest masterpiece I've ever heard

Don't let me down

Already? I thought we would have to wait a few years before the next album.
AWESOME!

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Merry last week and happy yesterday...

I want my copy NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cannot wait !

CARPE DIEM!

No. No I cannot handle it....

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ORIGINAL: Kyo
It seems there is a massive lack of overanalyzing Mike's message here, so here's what we know for sure so far:

i for one will be writing a letter of disgust to the band if anything you have said does not come true

after all, it was confirmed by the band

 
THAT'S the spirit, man! I think we should start working on an open letter to Mike complaining
about his shameless misinformation campaign ASAP! It's never to soon for these things!

Now that I've read Mike's post, I'm officially ANCIOUS!!!!! 

Now known as João "John" Piruças

I think the only real assumption we can make about DT10 based on Mike's teaser is that it will be COMPLETELY AWESOME.

Seriously, now I absolutely can't wait for this album. New Pure Reason Revolution AND Dream Theater next year? 2009 is going to be a good one for prog.

AHHHH I cant wait. Happy holidays MP

 i certainly cannot wait!! Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

this is gonna be AMAZING. from MP's description.....................................................just two words:
 
 
holy shit

"It was as if he could talk to the animals.....like some Satanic Dr. Doolittle" - Stephen King, The Stand

That's all well and good, but what does your hair look like today?

Wow when MP says something like this about the album, you just cannot help but be excited.  The songs he mentioned are among my favorite DT songs.  When I clicked on this thread I had thought MP was changing his drum setup and he was posting a picture of the final product.  Had no clue this was what the thread was about. 

Kyo, thanks for taking the 'Do Want' picture from my photobucket account

HOLY SHIT.
HOLY SHIT.
HOLY SHIT.
HOLY SHIT.
HOLY SHIT!
HOLY SHIT!!
HOLY SHIT!!!

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Great news!!!!
 
 
Now I'm excited!!! The new album will kick ass!!!

sounds like this could be a pretty kickass album but I'm gonna just wait and see

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Kyo, thanks for taking the 'Do Want' picture from my photobucket account

 
That's what you get for posting in my Hiromi thread!

Wow, this news really has me looking forward to the new album much more than I'd been before. No matter what, I'll always support DT, buy their albums on release date, see them in concert, etc.... but while I've liked many songs on each of the last 3 albums, I've been somewhat disappointed in them all as a whole. I personally think that SDOIT was their last truly GREAT album from start to finish, and if MP's descriptions are true, then it gives me hope this new one could be as good or better than that!

/me crosses fingers for Myung lyrics

What's weird is that I've been playing those songs constantly lately: ACOS (from Live Scenes); Octavarium (from Score); Learning to Live (2007 Fan Club); Pull Me Under (2007 Fan Club); and The Glass Prison (Gigantour)

I hope this wont be the kiss of death of overpromise and underdeliver

sounds like we will hear JM lyrics on the record, which 99.99% of the forum will like.

Carpe Diem !

Why are we likely to hear JM lyrics???

ganpondordf - probably over speculating, cause MP listed LTL.

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Oh.  Well hopefully we will anyway.  It's been too long.

damn, i was trying really hard to avoid getting all crazy for this album!

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Kyo, I bow to your superior means of over analyzing.

Just wait till it all finds its way into a Blabbermouth story!

That's the most pre release info MP has ever belched out.
 
 
 
Sounds like the perfect DT album. Thanks.

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Kyo, I bow to your superior means of over analyzing.

Just wait till it all finds its way into a Blabbermouth story!

 
all the comments will be DT IS TEH SUX0RS!!111!!

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Well, normally I wont share any studio info for fear of over speculation and analyzation (yes, there's another thread in the Forum with 21 pages of people talking about mine and JP's hair based on Jordan's studio diary!)....
 
But I felt the need to share this excitement with y'all:
 
Today I finished my drum tracks for the new Dream Theater album! 
 
And as I normally never give away song descriptions, titles, lengths, etc....I will say just this:
 
Imagine a DT album with A Change Of Seasons, Octavarium, Learning To Live, Pull Me Under and The Glass Prison....all on one album....
 
COULD YOU HANDLE IT??????? 
 
Excited?
I sure am!!!!
 
Happy Turkey Day Everybody,
MP
 

Pull Me Under
We're going to see Dream Theater on MTV . Time to replace the crap MTV plays and more DT

WOW!

Can't wait! Congratulations DT!

Clyx - you DO know that MTV doesnt even play Music Videos anymore right?

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And always remember - it could've been THIS instead:

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Imagine a DT album with You Not Me, Disappear, Forsaken, Burning My Soul and The Answer Lies Within....all on one album....

 

^^ I actually like those songs (besides You Not Me) so that album would of been great also.

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holy. fucking. shit.

And I'm lost in the window And I hide in the stairway And I hang in the curtain And I sleep in your hat

ooops! Gotta go change my underwear now!

Shweeet.

this is the news ive been fucking waiting for!!!

can't wait for this album...sounds like it will be another fucking awesome album!!!

Anticipation overload 

Giggity!
 
This is friggen sweet news...Happy Holidays to you and yours, Mike.
 

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And always remember - it could've been THIS instead:

ORIGINAL: Portnoy
Imagine a DT album with You Not Me, Disappear, Forsaken, Burning My Soul and The Answer Lies Within....all on one album....

Shit, that would be fucking AWESOME. I love all those songs, INCLUDING You Not Me.

I think the enormity of this hit me just now. HOLY FUCKING SHIT!

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Happy Thanksgiving indeed

I'm... so excited... like.



Yeah. If you wanted to get all of your fans hyped, those were the perfect words to do it.
Happy TG, and good luck with the rest of the album!!!

Just WOW!!

Thanks for sharing the progress of things.  Most excellent.

ORIGINAL: Portnoy

Well, normally I wont share any studio info for fear of over speculation and analyzation (yes, there's another thread in the Forum with 21 pages of people talking about mine and JP's hair based on Jordan's studio diary!)....
 
But I felt the need to share this excitement with y'all:
 
Today I finished my drum tracks for the new Dream Theater album! 
 
And as I normally never give away song descriptions, titles, lengths, etc....I will say just this:
 
Imagine a DT album with A Change Of Seasons, Octavarium, Learning To Live, Pull Me Under and The Glass Prison....all on one album....
 
COULD YOU HANDLE IT??????? 
 
Excited?
I sure am!!!!
 
Happy Turkey Day Everybody,
MP
 

Sounds great. Two 20(+/-) minute songs would be nice.
And a lot of overreacting in this thread already

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ORIGINAL: ganpondorodf

Hmmm... With the description MP gave, maybe it's the third disc of the Greatest Hit compilation : The Epic Side

In all seriousness though, I hope there's an instrumental track on this.

Believe it or not, I created my own The Epic Side for my iPod.  Mine runs as....
Metropolis Part 1
Learning to Live
A Mind Besides Itself
Scarred
A Change of Seasons
Hell's Kitchen/Lines In The Sand
Trial Of Tears
Beyond This Life
In The Presence of Enemies (both parts spliced together)
first 4 parts of the AA suite edited to one song

Nice!  I have similar playlists.  One consists of the AA saga, while the other consists of all of the Epics (I like) from any band on my iPod.


Oh, right.  Sorry.

WOOHOO!!!

"Pay No Attention to These Hypocrites, Neo. To Deny Our Own Impulses, Is To Deny The Very Thing That Makes Us Human"

This sounds sensational.  Cannot wait.

that's the best turkey day news ever!!!!

must've been hungry when I chose my profile name

AHH! That's amazing!! Can't wait!

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That tops Thanksgiving off better than Pumkin Pie!  I am so friggin excited now.  Hey Mike, tell the other guys to Hurry up! (he he)

Is It Really Happening?  Is It Really, Going To Last?

Can't wait! So much (more) anticipation now!
 
Ok, Mike, spill the beans and tell us about your plans for the new touring kit including the new 8" snare if it works out.
 

So. . . It's gonna be long?

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So. . . It's gonna be long?

 
That's what she said.

Damnyoumikeportnoy!

Can't wait to hear it when it's released.

"...and stuff." - KeithK

Thank you Mike. No really, Thank you a lot.


I for one would be perfectly happy with a 5-song epic oriented album... Looking forward to this...

In my opinion, he mentions three of the best songs they have in their catalog (ACOS, PMU, LTL) accompanied by the best one in the AA saga (TGP) and, the best song they've done in the last 5 years (8V)...

high expectations indeed...



and now for the fan-boy comment:

Track numbers for the songs mentioned are 1, 8, 8, 1, 1....



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