New DT promo pic - wow!!!!

Nice hair.

Nice.

Naigewron


I like how a lot of the people who claim not to care about how DT looks are the same people who complain about how DT looks

I've lamented the hair straightening thing in the past, but really couldn't care less when all is said and done. :)

MIKE! you look... different...?

badass!

It's been a long time since dt took a pic only in black.

Ink

RobertB


I guess it's good for imagining / marketing etc, but this picture doesn't really represent DT. or what i see DT as, anyway.

 +1.

I think I can see where RoadRunner is trying to push DT... and I don't like it.

Agreed.

i think this image can tell us very clearly the intentions of the next and new album... darker and more angressive...

its an hint i think of what is coming with the album... its going to be bad ass indeed... no questions about it... looks cool by the way, i think for the metal heads like me the next album will kick our minds out... for the progressive people maybe will happend just like the train of thought...

but this is dream theater... is our favorite band or one of our favorites... lets give them the chance to do what they know better do: music... Great music, art in sound... no more but never less...

enjoy the wait bros and sis!!!! we are waiting for a new piece of art in DT history!

HENRY MELKOR

i personally think it may represent a more "Dark Clouds" aspect of the new album, and the silver lining is what is beginning to shine through the clouds at the top.

/speculation

It looks like the Constant Motion video.

It definitely looks great!
So metal...\m/

Better res.



And enhanced for more realism:
Clicky

^^^HAHA well played sir.

Now we need a new SteveTheater wallpaper with the promo photo and the album art....hint, hint, nudge, nudge \m/

I don't care how they look - it's how they play that matters; although, that being said, there are other genres in which how you look directly informs how you play - punk, for example, or black metal - but I think this pic is meant to tie into the album title and cover concept, and we might see another promo picture at some point which ties into the 'silver lining' part of the title. Not that they'll necessarily look happy in said picture, but maybe at least they won't all be dressed in nothing but black.

Can't wait for my birthday - June 23rd! - and the release of what will likely be my favorite album of the year. I love this band.



-- Jeff

Nazca


And enhanced for more realism:
[img]http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k86/Jamariquay/desktop2009-1copy.jpg?t=1238092336[/img]

the more realistic one is my new background, score!

with each resolution increase, they're looking even more badass!

Hahahahahahahaha. Love the bear.

I think it's pretty cool!

Myung is the best

\m/

Now they really look like a Roadrunner Records band ;)

Badass.


Though I just noticed how incredibly aweful JLB's jacket is

Jera


Now we need a new SteveTheater wallpaper with the promo photo and the album art....hint, hint, nudge, nudge \m/

I would love to make a wallpaper out of this if only I had a better quality image, I can't work with this one.

Maybe Wey can help us soon

Whahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!

Ozmoziz


don't like it

This, pretty much. Mike looks "old" on that pic. Rest of the band looks OK, though JP should loose that straightened hair. I think it looks pretty bad.

As mentioned before this doesn´t really represent DT, but hey it´s just a picture. Mike looks like he just stepped out of the shower, a bit cool though. Anywho, bottom line: Let´s not judge music from picture.

How can you really judge that heavily on a picture so small?
Anyway I agree it's just a promo picture and to me it's not that bad, although I'm not fan of the straightened hair look.

uberDTfreak


Too much metul.

too much indeed, it's like they're signed with Roadrunner :P

LiquidDreams

Ink

RobertB


I guess it's good for imagining / marketing etc, but this picture doesn't really represent DT. or what i see DT as, anyway.

+1.

I think I can see where RoadRunner is trying to push DT... and I don't like it.

Agreed.

I don't think Mike would ever let anybody push DT anywhere.

STEVETHEATER

Ink

I think I can see where RoadRunner is trying to push DT... and I don't like it.

Fail!

Learn your DT history... no one pushes DT... well, not since FII anyway.

This is Hugh Syme's art style.... he's been doing this for years.
Yes, it's very dark but that's part of the whole concept/design behind BC&SL.

Steve

This pretty much sums it up right here.  The pic looks badass, and EVERYTHING DT has EVER done has always been badass, so in that sense I'm not surprised.

the pic looks old school, i like it alot.glad to see mike got rid of that blue beard and grew his hair longer.very strange to see him with straight hair.reminds me of a young john bonham

Woah... Very dark. Bit too gothic

Concerned anyone?...

:O :O :O gooosshhhhh!!!

BLACK BLACK BLACKKK \M/ xD

Yeah, look very Goth.  Probably not an indicator of the music though...hopefully...

If anything, it's probably Mike who's doing the pushing for the metal look

JK3rr1gan


Woah... Very dark. Bit too gothic

Concerned anyone?...

My concern is that it's a very generic tryhard "grrr, look how hard we look" metal lineup picture.

Save that for Trivium and the like, DT is above that.

I'm fully aware i'm reading way too much into one throw-away picture, but there you go, there's nothing else to talk about.

Maybe they'll do another promo pic that's brighter to portray the silver linings theme?