The Drums Are Done!!!!

I'll do what I'll always do: approach the next CD with the least amount of excitement possible (although I'm thinking it will be very hard).

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

ok now i'm just like HOLY SHIT!!!!

www.lastfm.it/user/biggsave 
www.myspace.com/atonika 

 EPICS!

Ummm. Bring it on?!?!!!!!!!! Fricken awesome. Can't wait...another 7 months.

Sounds like another classic DT album on the way!

 

ORIGINAL: Solitary Glen

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.

A BIG +1 for this!!!

http://www.myspace.com/niky_toshev

OMG, I can't handle the wait right now Mike, but I know I will handle that kind of album


Time for that 80's song that comes to my mind everytime I hear or read news from an upcoming DT album or tour:

I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it, I'm about to lose control and I think I like it

i love this time of the year, THE DT ANTICIPATION BEGINS!!!

With that description I think we are in for a more prog rock album ala Octavarium, I cant wait! I enjoyed SC but I love a change of pace from time to time 

"Johnny feels invisible hands pushing him onward, the voices in his head get meaner"

I have a feeling this will be an awesome 10 year anniversary album like SFAM 

Yep. I'm getting cranked for new DT again. Mike pushed a few "happy buttons" of mine with his post.

All this analyzing is seriously funny as hell.

Some of you are getting all frothy over a few words and completed drum tracks. Keep rolling it over and over in your heads and by release day you will have painted a picture in your mind's eye of what the new CD will be like, and the actual disc will "never" be precisely what you had anticipated. So you'll be disappointed. Don't do that to yourself.

Wait patiently until drop day. Go into it without any unrealistic expectations or preconceived notions and just take it for what it is. And be blown away by it. 

...Thought you'd never miss me till I got a fat city address, non-stop talker, what a rocker, blue-eyed murder in a size five dress...

thats fast!

Fold?  Me coming back into the?  Sounds like I may be doing just that.  Yay!

I CAN'T WAIT!!!! I NEED NEW DT NOW!!!! I indulged on some DT today by watching the making of SC. This was indeed the icing on the cake. Thank you Mike.

"How should I complete the wall?"

awesome.

http://www.liamgaughan.com/    lost the game?
Production / Performance / Tuition

Im so bummed. Mike promised I could come in and do a nasty triangle solo on the next record.
 

"He's such a perfectionist. Such a fucking monster musician."  - Geddy Lee on Neil Peart

NUMBER 10 is on the way people !!!
 
Can't wait !
 

Another reason to be thankfull today.
Thanks for the update Mike!
 

DT New album tracklist:

Track 1 - 20 minutes  (Acos)
Track 2 - 7 minutes    (PMU)
Track 3 - 13 min.       (TGP)
Track 4 - 11 min.       (LTL)
Track 5 - 25 min.       (O8)

DREAM THEATER continues to raise the bar every time out... and we should all know full well by now that good ol' MP never steers us wrong... so if Mike is already personally excited about this new record I suspect it will BLOW EVERYBODY AWAY... it will be a pleasure to get this when it comes out.  !!!
 
Now MP... WHAT ABOUT THE NEXT BATCH OF YTSE's? [please] !!!

 
I CANT CONTROL MYSELF RIGHT NOW!!!!!!
 
THIS ALBUM IS GOING TO BE INSANE!!!!!
 
NEEEEEED NOOOOOOOWWW!!!!!!!!!!

ORIGINAL: Portnoy

Imagine a DT album with A Change Of Seasons, Octavarium, Learning To Live, Pull Me Under and The Glass Prison....all on one album....
  

 
 
Awwww...not another greatest hits album.
 

 
Just kidding....sounds fucking awesome!!!!!

"Amidst the errors there shone forth men of genius, no less keen were their eyes, although they were surrounded by darkness and dense gloom"
-Petrarch

I don't care about the album.

What's the verdict on the hair?!?!

Just kidding.

Simply Wow!

This is the only certain thing we can conclude from his post:

He knows how a lot of people feel regarding their last three albums (ie quality of writing is down; they're too formulaic; it's all about the shred; and so on). Furthermore, he is fully aware of the comparisons between the latest albums and the songs in his list (Note: 8V is within the latest albums). He is also painfully aware of the criticism he and the band receive here.

So,

There is no way in hell that he would say those things unless he was sure that the forum would liken this new album to those songs as well; otherwise, the backlash would be huge!

In conclusion, . I can't wait!

absolutezero, Ph.D.
(I just love writing that now after my name!)

There...now i've gone and soiled myself. I hope you're happy Mr. Portnoy!!

So if you want my address its number 1 at the end of the bar....where I sit with the broken angels...clutching at straws and nursing my scars. Blame it on me. Sugarmice - Marillion

ORIGINAL: Frameshift88

DT New album tracklist:

Track 1 - 20 minutes  (Acos)
Track 2 - 7 minutes    (PMU)
Track 3 - 13 min.       (TGP)
Track 4 - 11 min.       (LTL)
Track 5 - 25 min.       (O8)

OK, people... length ain't everything, you know. (Insert joke here.) He's referring to the actual musical direction of the album. Or at least I hope so.

ORIGINAL: Dobe the Drummer

ORIGINAL: Frameshift88

DT New album tracklist:

Track 1 - 20 minutes  (Acos)
Track 2 - 7 minutes    (PMU)
Track 3 - 13 min.       (TGP)
Track 4 - 11 min.       (LTL)
Track 5 - 25 min.       (O8)

OK, people... length ain't everything, you know. (Insert joke here.) He's referring to the actual musical direction of the album. Or at least I hope so.

Actually, knowing MP, he's probably toying with us, and he literally does mean an album with the exact same song lengths as those songs.

"Guys, I think I'm gunna change my look." - John Myung, 2004.

Strange that he includes PMU with those other songs. IMO, it's a much weaker song when compared to the other 4, in terms of just about everything (except air time in the 90's)

Man this is gonna be a long few months, waiting for this C.D.to drop.From what Mike said,this album should kick some major ass!!!!!

Strange that he includes PMU with those other songs. IMO, it's a much weaker song when compared to the other 4, in terms of just about everything (except air time in the 90's)

I think he is only saying one or more of the songs will be more traditional (in the sense of verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, solo, chorus), but at the same time will also be metal and possibly have interesting/cool interludes between verses and choruses.

Either way, he is saying the spirit of the music will be akin to PMU.

Or, I could be way off

absolutezero, Ph.D.
(I just love writing that now after my name!)

When I saw the title, the first thing I thought was that Mike's new drum kit was finished and ready to be shown off.

It's cool that the man is so pumped about what they've been working on. I'll be looking forward to hearing this!

Faith is not a virtue. Faith is gullibility. It’s evidence that determines whether or not your perception of reality is reasonable and in conjunction with the world as it is. -Matt Dillahunty

Holy...fucking...shit!!!!! I cannot wait, although the countdown to the album's release is half the fun. I am super psyched. DT has yet to disappoint me, and everything they have put out from Scenes onward has been absolutely kick ass (I love the pre-Scenes albums, but at this point DT is a well oiled machine guaranteed to deliver something truly awesome, and this has happened consistently enough for me to make such an assumption). I KNOW the new album will absolutely rule. This is great news.

OMFG!!
And stupid me was thinking they would be still writing or even warming up... CAN'T WAIT!! Any hints on the release date?

ORIGINAL: Portnoy

Imagine a DT album with A Change Of Seasons, Octavarium, Learning To Live, Pull Me Under and The Glass Prison....all on one album....

another best-of????

ORIGINAL: absolutezero

Strange that he includes PMU with those other songs. IMO, it's a much weaker song when compared to the other 4, in terms of just about everything (except air time in the 90's)

I think he is only saying one or more of the songs will be more traditional (in the sense of verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, solo, chorus), but at the same time will also be metal and possibly have interesting/cool interludes between verses and choruses.

I hope that's the case.  I love when songs have odd structures and arrangements.

"Set it..."
"and forget it!!!"
-Ronco Showtime

Re-read MP's post: The drums are done. Nothing was said about the rest of the instruments. He could be strictly talking about his drumming on each song.

This sounds F*#KING AMAZING!!!!!!!

Ryan
"...its like Jimi Hendrix meets Jesus Christ at
a party thrown by Ben Hur for Mel Blanc."
Steve Vai

I CAN HANDLE the album, but the wait it´s gonna be TORTURE

 Can´t waiiiiit.

(I usually hate to do this but..... CONSIDER touring to MONTERREY,
please)

thanks for sharing the news, Mike

I´m a woman and I L O V E Progressive Rock (in all its variants) by my own volition, thank you...now back to our regular programming.
"Music needs to be loved, music is art, without love it is meaningless and meaningless art is not art." Perttu Kivilaakso.
"OH MY GOD! This is way more intense than a G3 and much more sexy" Me at Apocalyptica concert.

This is the BEST news I've had all day. And... it's been a good day!!!

Cannot wait for this!!!!!!!!!!

"... [L]et's continue that musical journey right now with 'Images and Wads'!" - James LaBrie: Score

could be possible that these guys do not kill me for the emotion ever??????

I'm extremely anxious for the next album. with that description (including my favorite songs as ACOS & LTL & PU ) .... and of course hoping to return to Venezuela to hear the third best concert of my life (the previous two were in the 05 & 08 at the Octavarium and the systematic tours respectively )

mike thanks for this information. worth the wait to hear you say something about the new album!!!

THANKS THANKS AND THANKS!!!!

"Muchas Fucking Gracias Amigos"..."MP" december 13th 2005 at El Poliedro, Caracas/Venezuela

"Muchas Fucking Gracias, Seeya next show"..."MP" March 14th 2008 at El Forum, Valencia / Venezuela

"Muchas Gracias Amigos"... "MP" March 24th 2010 at CCCT, Caracas/Venezuela

Gaaaaaaaaaaaa daaamn!!! I don't think I could handle it though!!!!

We all know the AA series will be completed...or hopefully.

I predict the Album Title as "The Epic to end all epics"

So. Fucking. Excited.

Also, a while ago, I said it would be amazing if it were a double album; Disc one having 9 songs, each in the style of a previous album, and disc 2 being some amazing new direction we never saw coming. Could it be?
Probably not, but it sounds amazing anyway.

EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2009 will be another excellent year in prog I foresee.

"Rock Juice, for a rockin' good show!"
-MP

ORIGINAL: tunefish

Yep. I'm getting cranked for new DT again. Mike pushed a few "happy buttons" of mine with his post.

All this analyzing is seriously funny as hell.

Some of you are getting all frothy over a few words and completed drum tracks. Keep rolling it over and over in your heads and by release day you will have painted a picture in your mind's eye of what the new CD will be like, and the actual disc will "never" be precisely what you had anticipated. So you'll be disappointed. Don't do that to yourself.

Wait patiently until drop day. Go into it without any unrealistic expectations or preconceived notions and just take it for what it is. And be blown away by it. 

 
Well, I think that this is the best opinion that I read and I have to admit that I was overreacted to my previous post about the double album. I'm looking forward to hear the new album and then to see them performing live in Greece.

Still excited 
Not to ask for a second opinion but: Has there been any word from any of the other guys from DT? No extra goodies?

http://www.last.fm/user/Simo46

Carp Diem - Seize the Fish

Predicted album title : Decavarium

Great news indeed! DT 2009 hell yeah baby!!!! 

 
  
 
 

Album should be called MP And Mah Boiz Back In Town. Yeeaaaaaaah Boiiiiiiii. Very progressive. Expanding the horizon of the music.

That one is for free, DT. You heard it here first.

I can't wait

ORIGINAL: Frameshift88

DT New album tracklist:

Track 1 - 20 minutes  (Acos)
Track 2 - 7 minutes    (PMU)
Track 3 - 13 min.       (TGP)
Track 4 - 11 min.       (LTL)
Track 5 - 25 min.       (O8)

I personally believe you're misunderstanding. When he said the album would sound like a mix of those classic DT songs, I don't think he meant that individual songs would be comparable in style to each one of those... in other words, I don't think he meant there'd be one song similar to "ACOS', one song similar to "TGP", etc.... I just think he meant that the entire album as a whole would have elements of each of those songs within them.

Holy Shit! Can't wait..!!

SOOO excited! and well, I can handle it, but not much more than that!

Joar S. Birkeland

Great to here Mike.
Can't wait!!!!

The headless lover of three...
an unspeakable affair...

Predicted album title : Decavarium

absolutezero, Ph.D.
(I just love writing that now after my name!)

Description sounds awfully promising!  A phenomenal song like Octavarium would be extremly hard to top, but I sure as hell hope they've done it.  Maybe this is why Mike was more excited and crazed than normal in Monday's studio video.

ORIGINAL: dimedizzle

Album should be called MP And Mah Boiz Back In Town. Yeeaaaaaaah Boiiiiiiii. Very progressive. Expanding the horizon of the music.

That one is for free, DT. You heard it here first.

Yo that shit be illin' like a mo'fucka

Krank dem beats MP!

Hopelessly drifting, bathing in beautiful agony...

I hate to bring any cynicism to this thread, but aren't people saying things like "with Mike this excited, it's bound to be great!" being a little short-sighted??  MP's hardly gonna start a topic saying "hey guys, finished recording my drum tracks today...  The songs aren't that great, but maybe you'll like them... I sure as Hell don't".
 
That said, I still trust the album'll be great!

ORIGINAL: ganpondorodf

I hate to bring any cynicism to this thread, but aren't people saying things like "with Mike this excited, it's bound to be great!" being a little short-sighted??  MP's hardly gonna start a topic saying "hey guys, finished recording my drum tracks today...  The songs aren't that great, but maybe you'll like them... I sure as Hell don't".

That said, I still trust the album'll be great!

 
Considering EVERY DT album has been an example of pure awesomeness, I really do not think we have anything to worry about.

"Amidst the errors there shone forth men of genius, no less keen were their eyes, although they were surrounded by darkness and dense gloom"
-Petrarch

SOunds awesome! I can only wait.

www.ChrisVickroy.net

ORIGINAL: ganpondorodf

I hate to bring any cynicism to this thread, but aren't people saying things like "with Mike this excited, it's bound to be great!" being a little short-sighted??  MP's hardly gonna start a topic saying "hey guys, finished recording my drum tracks today...  The songs aren't that great, but maybe you'll like them... I sure as Hell don't".

That said, I still trust the album'll be great!

Would be pretty funny if he did say that though.  I wonder what he'll stir up for April Fools this time.

(The one prior to SC was the "Portnoy" mispelling)

does that means that the lyrics have been already written ?

Carpe Diem !

Does this mean............... JM lyrics?!?!?

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Wow, that description sounds really intriguing. All of those songs are among my favorite DT tunes. If the album really lives up to that, it will be awesome.

ORIGINAL: n1n3th1rt33n
Strange that he includes PMU with those other songs. IMO, it's a much weaker song when compared to the other 4, in terms of just about everything (except air time in the 90's)

It's not weaker at all, it's just more straight-forward. One of the rare cases where
DT managed to pull that off without the result sounding forced and a deserved hit.

ORIGINAL: ganpondorodf
MP's hardly gonna start a topic saying "hey guys, finished recording my drum tracks today...  The songs aren't that great, but maybe you'll like them... I sure as Hell don't".

True, but isn't this the first time he's talked about the production/creation/whatever of the album (before it came out)?  If he wasn't excited and extremely proud of it, he wouldn't do it.

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

ORIGINAL: zoso

does that means that the lyrics have been already written ?

I don't think so. I mean they ALWAYS write the music first and I guess they record the music that they have written and only AFTER that do they write lyrics for them.

ORIGINAL: Portnoy


Imagine a DT album with A Change Of Seasons, Octavarium, Learning To Live, Pull Me Under and The Glass Prison....all on one album....
 

 

The part of me that likes to F with people really wants this to actually be the release.  I'd laugh my ass and balls off as I walked up to the counter and bought it

"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it." - Mark Twain

ORIGINAL: ganpondorodf
aren't people saying things like "with Mike this excited, it's bound to be great!" being a little short-sighted??  MP's hardly gonna start a topic saying "hey guys, finished recording my drum tracks today...  The songs aren't that great, but maybe you'll like them... I sure as Hell don't".

I don't recall Mike being this charged up before the release of TOT or Octavarium.  He's admitted in interviews since  (Eddie Trunk I think) that  he's not entirely happy with those albums now listening back to them.  SFAM and SC provoked a totally different reaction though, with Mike saying they were their best albums to date.

Mike seems like an honest guy.  I don't think he would lay on the bullshit if he's not genuinely happy with the progress of the studio sessions.

ORIGINAL: yesrushdt

ORIGINAL: ganpondorodf
aren't people saying things like "with Mike this excited, it's bound to be great!" being a little short-sighted??  MP's hardly gonna start a topic saying "hey guys, finished recording my drum tracks today...  The songs aren't that great, but maybe you'll like them... I sure as Hell don't".

I don't recall Mike being this charged up before the release of TOT or Octavarium.  He's admitted in interviews since  (Eddie Trunk I think) that  he's not entirely happy with those albums now listening back to them.  SFAM and SC provoked a totally different reaction though, with Mike saying they were their best albums to date.

Mike seems like an honest guy.  I don't think he would lay on the bullshit if he's not genuinely happy with the progress of the studio sessions.

I'm sure he wouldn't, but he's hardly impartial and we shouldn't believe it'll be awesome because he's excited about it.

We should believe it'll be awesome because all the previous albums have been awesome

I think people went too far interpreting Mike's post. We don't really know anything, and the things he said could mean lots of things.

WOW!!!  Go DT

Make it perfect!!

holy shit!! i think i just died two minutes after  i read this.
But i have a question............the drumkit will be the same ??

I just saw this and  JR's yesterday diary post and I’m as exited as a dog with two tails!!!
 
Thanks MP

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hopefully by june we will be listening to the new album :)

I look forward to hearing it...

On the flipside to this awesome news of a new album full of strong classic tunes, I can't help but be saddened that it seems like there will be no 5 minute dt songs, stuff like 6:00, Surrounded, Burning My Soul, Strange Deja Vu. I really enjoy those songs, they really fill out an albums dynamic for me. Ah well I'd rather A+ epic songs over forced shorter songs!

Verification of the truth of the words of the Book of Counted Shadows, if spoken by another, rather than read by the one who commands the boxes, can only be ensured by the use of a Confessor...

omg! That actually sounds like it will be amazing!! CANT FUCKING WAIT! AND THEN ANOTHER TOUR YAYA!!!

It will be Mine!!!1!!

It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.

Mike, that is awesome news.  My wife and I were just in San Juan this week and heading home on a cruise right now.  We were feeling kinda melancholy about attending the last four DT shows in May and June.  I can't wait to do another DT caravan this coming tour in support of a new album.  Nice news to end our vacation.  Tell JP to get off his ass and finish the guitar parts if he hasn't done so