The Drums Are Done!!!!

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.

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?

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!

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

Predicted album title : Decavarium

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!

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.

SOunds awesome! I can only wait.

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 ?

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

It will be Mine!!!1!!

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