The Drums Are Done!!!!

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
 

Indeed I am!

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Excellent.  MP is probably antsy waiting on the others to put the final product together!

Now back to the producer's chair, rock on  Mike!!!

John Myung once said:

Figures.  Thanksgiving and you're cooped (heh) up in a studio.

CANNOT WAIT!!

I am all
 

4 - 8 - 15 - 16 - 23 - 42 - Are you lost??

REALLY looking forward to this now.

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Great news, cant wait too hear it! 

Happy Fuckin Holidays MP! 

Figures.  Thanksgiving and you're cooped (heh) up in a studio.

D-O-R-K. Jesus, that was horrible.....

Is there anybody listening?
Is there anyone that sees what's going on?
Read between the lines, criticize the words they're selling
Think for yourself and feel the walls...become sand beneath your feet

BOOYAKASHA!

Thanks Mike for the update!

Hell yea definitely looking forward to this!!

That sounds like an Epic album to me

When is it out in the store, I can't wait...

Excited? I'm ecstatic!

I have just shat myself.

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Track list like that, sounds like they're pushing another double album.

That is outstanding news, though!

holy shit, holy shit, holy shit, holy shit, holy shit


cant wait!

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG


FUCK YES

CANNOT WAIT




edit: (had to change my pants) HE LISTED ACOS AND LTL IN THE DESCRIPTION

HOLY FUCKING SHIT I NEED TO CALM DOWN

Shazam

Great news, thanks for my daily MP/DT news fix.


Wait... maybe this new album is just going to consist of Dream Theater doing covers of their greatest hits such as A Change of Seasons, Octavarium, Learning to Live, Pull Me Under and The Glass Prison

Sweeeeeet. This sounds like it will be a killer album. 

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....
 
COULD YOU HANDLE IT??????? 
 

Could this album finally reunite the factions and restore peace to the boards as we all join together and sing "Ever Enough"?

Probably not, because I'm guessing that some people can't handle it:



But we idealists can always hope

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....

You forgot to add:
"Well, this is not that album. But it's going to be pretty cool anyway!"


P.S.:

Mike, You're lucky us Canadians have free health care because otherwise I would send you the hospital bill for the Cardiac arrest you gave me due to that description.
 
 
*is now very excited...damnit...I get annoying when i get excited*

Didn't they go into the studio only a month ago? Please, Portnoy, for the sake of the fans, take some time to write quality material.

It only took you SO LONG!

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Didn't they go into the studio only a month ago? Please, Portnoy, for the sake of the fans, take some time to write quality material.

Due to DT's use of odd time signatures, a month is really more like a year...

So don't worry your little head about it.

Damnit not another greatest hits.

last.fm

This sounds promising! Very excited to hear it, thanks Mike.

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ORIGINAL: ebrown

Didn't they go into the studio only a month ago? Please, Portnoy, for the sake of the fans, take some time to write quality material.

Due to DT's use of odd time signatures, a month is really more like a year...

So don't worry your little head about it.

+1. I'm guessing Petrucci used some 69/42 on the album so they could go back in time write for 83 hours a day.

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Man this is gonna ROCK!

I won't shiver in the cold
I won't let the shadows take their toll
I won't cover my head in the dark
And I won't forget you when we part

Like I needed to be anymore excited! Thanks MP for the updates and Happy Thanksgiving!! 

It's easier to bow than keep these knees locked tight

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....
 
COULD YOU HANDLE IT??????? 
 

I could, but I don't think a red book compliant CD would. It would be exactly 40 seconds too long.

ORIGINAL: Portnoy
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Imagine a DT album with A Change Of Seasons, Octavarium, Learning To Live, Pull Me Under and The Glass Prison....all on one album....
 
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Oh, so it will be another greatest hits compilation

Mr. Portnoy, can you give some information about the new crazy drums that you used? :)

Thanks!

Wow!!!! Mike, you are nuts if you think that isn't gonna get me super stoked.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!

Thanks for the news Mike, sounds so interesting. Can't wait.

Okay, so like....

VERY EFFING EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!

...is what I am right now. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CAN'T WAITTTTT!!!!

"Guys, I think I'm gunna change my look." - John Myung, 2004.
STILL NO CHANGE.

That sounds awesome!
 
'Coming soon to a store near you, Dream Theater re-record their classic epics!'
 
No, but seriously. AWESOME!

I will not Fear
Fear is the mind killer
I will face my Fear
I will let it pass through me

Hmmmmm.....I smell....shit....from my pants!!! !! CANT WAIT!!! GODDAMNGODDAMNGODDAMNIT! ME WAAAANT!

Good to know the man is happy and very excited about the album! Now im 5 times more excited, sounds bloody awesome MP!

Who else is bouncing off the walls?!

MP: Do you guys know how long it took to find a gravestone with the name Victoria Page, and the dates 1905-1928 on it?! Took us months!

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Track list like that, sounds like they're pushing another double album.

The album could only have 5 songs. Two 20+minute epics and then three more "normal" length songs. I think that would be interesting.

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I have to admit I'm a little exc - oh, what the hell, I'M FUCKING OVEREXCITED right now.

Sounds fucking cool to me. Can't wait to hear this.

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

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Oh for God's sake, now the next few months are really gonna draaaaaaaaaaaag

Yeahhh right!!!!

Its gonna' sound like Metallica wanting to be Entombed (again) with Meshuggah and Jon
Anderson on Lead Vocals and one electric lead triangle!

Hehe, Mr. Portnoy, you guys will have to do a Rap/Hip Hop album to ruin any expectations ;)
I'm wanting to see what your Battery will look like this time around!
(By the way, you stole the phrase "some are looking for the 2nd coming of Christ when we
release an album" from ME . . . I expect to be well paid for that I am).

Us "PrOgulus" folks can't wait! And Happy Thanksgiving to you guys too :)

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Looks like it's gonna be EPIC!
 
Thanks for the update Man!
 
*changes underwear*

 
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.

This got me excited 

YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

oh my god


Thats all I can say right now...

A wise man once said,

"Eat my ass and balls"

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.

Happy Thanksgiving, Mike, Family, and all!

Scott

<pg 377, left column, second block, first name--no witty comment here>

FUUUCK

THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!!!!


CAN'T WAIT

Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny. - Frank Zappa

Holy spastic flying fruitbats with cheese sticks, Batman!
I try not to have high expectations with new releases but after that description it's a bit hard not to, i'm so psyched

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there is nothing i can add to this thread other than:
 
+1 to every single fucking thing above me

BAM! Hit Em With A Freezepop!

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!

Oooohhh good work MP.

Any bets on the date of release of the new album?

My 0.02c would be mid June.

Thanks for sharing Mike 

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R.I.P at this moment

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Mid-June... This is gonna be a long seven months.

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WTF????

ACOS + LTL ?????

WWWWWOOOOOOOW

the releasedate is the apocalypse cause the earth will explode because of the awesomeness of the new DT-album :)

thank you very much mike, i have now a gleam of hope in my life :)

DT ALBUM #10, WHOHOW! ;)

seeya

I'm dead!

shit, at this rate, it'll leak next week

Hopelessly drifting, bathing in beautiful agony...

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 don't think MP necessarily means there are just 5 songs like the ones he listed, but that would be pretty cool. 

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....

 
It seems there is a massive lack of overanalyzing Mike's message here, so here's what we know for sure so far:
 
Track 1:
OMG! One track will be considered too long by the record label.  
 
Track 2:
OMG! The first third of another track will be an intro that totally rips off Pink Floyd!
Also, DT working with an orchestra again CONFIRMED!!!!111!eleven
 
Track 3:
OMG! Myung writing lyrics for DT again ALSO CONFIRMED!!!!!11!!!2!! 
 
Track 4:
OMG! One of the songs will end very abruptly (that's all we know about it).
And the video for it will be a low-budget last-minute put together thing.
 
Track 5:
OMG! The last song will be part of a five-song suite and only seem coherent once the other four parts are added!

ORIGINAL: CyberShy
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 ;)

Why would that be even close to 50 minutes? So far every step took up just 4-5 minutes.

ORIGINAL: Kyo

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....

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

Track 1:
OMG! One track will be considered too long by the record label.  

Track 2:
OMG! The first third of another track will be an intro that totally rips off Pink Floyd!
Also, DT working with an orchestra again CONFIRMED!!!!111!eleven

Track 3:
OMG! Myung writing lyrics for DT again ALSO CONFIRMED!!!!!11!!!2!! 

Track 4:
OMG! One of the songs will end very abruptly (that's all we know about it).
And the video for it will be a low-budget last-minute put together thing.  And the super-secret and super-awesome return of Kevin Moore 

Track 5:
OMG! The last song will be part of a five-song suite and only seem coherent once the other four parts are added!

 
 
Fixed

If Mike himself felt it okay to let us know, then it's probably EXTREMELY awesome and he had one of those moments where you go like "holy carp, we've outdone ourselves!".

I guess we can assume that we'll be hearing the more melodic side of DT and that the album will have a few epics. My guess is that the heavy parts will be I&W heavy. More prog and less in your face metal seems to be a safe bet.

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

Apologies for my constant posting, but I really just can't get enough of this thread.  I haven't been so excited for an album since... Well, ever, actually (except maybe when The Black Mages confirmed they were recording their third album, causing me to literally pump my fist in the air and leap round the room... A little embarrassing). 
 
There was me thinking "right, for the new DT album I'm gonna wait and just buy it, then listen to the whole thing in one go.  No downloading, no listening to clips that the guys release, no NOTHING".  Well, looks like that's been thrown out the window

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Wow, that's incredible news. To be honest I think that you did it really fast Mike. And when I say fast, I mean really fast because the setlist that you provided us as example for the tracks of the new album, leads us to a brand new double album.
 
Just a question that I'm hoping to be answered.
 
Is this the final album for your 12 part "painful" story??? Will we see the final 3 parts of it???

ORIGINAL: Silenoz

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!

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