Dream Theater entered the studio in February v. No News is Good News

[rumborak]

And I think it's a shame that this has happened. I mean, how many cool ideas for songs ended up on the cutting room floor just because they had 75 minutes of completed music?

I find this whole "one CD worth of music" concept rather silly anyway, especially in regard to DT who really straight-jacket themselves with that.

[The Cat Of Tuscany]

I don't understand - how is FII their longest album when Six Degrees is nearly 20 minutes longer?

[GasparXR]

I don't understand - how is FII their longest album when Six Degrees is nearly 20 minutes longer?

I think they just mean longest disc. I think SDOIT disc 1 and 2 are playing at the same time.

[TheCountOfNYC]

I don't understand - how is FII their longest album when Six Degrees is nearly 20 minutes longer?

I think they just mean longest disc. I think SDOIT disc 1 and 2 are playing at the same time.

But even then, Systematic Chaos is 29 seconds longer.

[SystematicThought]

Then why did FII finish last on the mashup video?  Did they start at different times or was ITPOE combined?

[Train of Naught]

I think the uploader altered the tempo so the most part of the allbums would end at around the same time, only explanation I can come up with.

[genome]

Don't tell anyone but there's a chance I may have accidentally left out Repentance.

[SystematicThought]

MP might give you a call to see if you want to speak on a song about how you're sorry for omitting his deeply personal song.

[Train of Naught]

Don't tell anyone but there's a chance I may have accidentally left out Repentance.

Well that explains everything, too bad because I was really looking forward to solving a mystery.

[erwinrafael]

This interview is dated May 2015, but it also says it was done in the recent UK tour, so I do not know if Mangini is talking about the new album or the self-titled when he said this:

Dream Theater's keyboard player, the professorial Jordan Rudess, has said in an interview that maths and music are one complete thing in the mind of Mike Mangini – an observation that the drummer is quite happy to accept as being an accurate assessment of his approach to the science of playing drums. "Yes, that's true, because understanding simple things like multiplication tables means I can work out how many bars to play before we come around to 'one' again. I practise as many permutations of this as I can with all 24 limb combinations. That means that I am prepared if the band is playing in 12/8, a standard time like that, Jordan can play 11/8, or 21/8, or 27/8 and I have the ability to keep the 12/8 beat that the band are following, but also follow the pattern that Jordan is playing at the same time. The vision is mathematical, and though I have to put the musical part in to make it sound good, the numbers are always in my head. We are now composing with these time signatures; there is a section on the new album where there is a part that sounds like the timings are all over the place, but it is actually just 4/4. We are learning to diversify our timings, and then re-sync up as and when needed."

[SystematicThought]

I think he may be referring to the "Bridges we build to connect" part in Illumination Theory which sounds like an odd time sig but it's not, it's 4/4. I may be wrong

[genome]

Would interesting to know if he counts that part, I find it far easier just to count the chugs I'm playing (four lots of 2 then 1, repeat) than count the beats that go by.

I think JP said the same about TDOE, that if he tried to count it he'd go insane, so you just learn the notes and feel it. Interesting perspective though, must be different for a drummer I guess.

[erwinrafael]

In his interviews, Mike often says that his counting is really more like seeing shapes and seeing how these shapes fit together. Which is how he gets to play with large numbers, not just combos of 3s, 4s and 2s.

[Kotowboy]

Whats the deal with magazine articles putting a pun of the band's name as the headline for every band piece they do ?

What purpose does it serve ?

[GasparXR]

Whats the deal with magazine articles putting a pun of the band's name as the headline for every band piece they do ?

What purpose does it serve ?

Because it's a very easy opportunity to make a stupid joke. I take ALL of those opportunities.

[Zydar]

From JLBs Twitter:

"The vocals for the next DT album are coming out amazing. Back in the studio tomorrow for some more tracking.  Can't wait."

[SwedishGoose]

From JLBs Twitter:

"The vocals for the next DT album are coming out amazing. Back in the studio tomorrow for some more tracking.  Can't wait."

Sounds great.... can't wait to hear the results 

[goo-goo]

I think JLB has been two weeks in the studio..

[Kotowboy]

I appreciate updates - but those sort of things mean absolutely nothing. He's hardly going to say " New album vocals are patchy at best rawwwwwwwwwwk !! "

[Bertielee]

I appreciate updates - but those sort of things mean absolutely nothing. He's hardly going to say " New album vocals are patchy at best rawwwwwwwwwwk !! "

yeah, or "I can't sing shit but whatever...Walk the plank!"

B.Lee

[Crow]

"i accidentally recorded my vocals on the same track as myung so we had to go with the first takes, #yolo  "

[Robo4900]

"I don't like singing that much, but I had a studio and a microphone, so what the fuck?"

[Kotowboy]

" Listen up guys - I can categorically state that I recorded my absolute best vocals since Awake.


..because I don't record vocals when i'm asleep rrraaawwwwkk  "

[Onno]

 

[Dani Helios]

  that was pretty funny

[Darkstarshades]

"I wrote lyrics to this album... based on my observational point of view... There are stuff that I see, that I want to see in a song"

[ResultsMayVary]

Really hoping we get something in the realm of a single and/or song teasers of some kind within the next month. This wait is starting to really dragggggggg.

[Rodni Demental]

I like singles but I hate what happens to them as a result of being out before an album. I over listen to them until the album comes out, to the point where I end up skipping that track on the album for a while until it starts to feel less familiar.

[fadetoblackdude7]

Really hoping we get something in the realm of a single and/or song teasers of some kind within the next month. This wait is starting to really dragggggggg.

It seems way too early for that. We probably won't even get a title or anything until at least October.

[BlobVanDam]

Really hoping we get something in the realm of a single and/or song teasers of some kind within the next month. This wait is starting to really dragggggggg.

It seems way too early for that. We probably won't even get a title or anything until at least October.

Given that JLB is still recording vocals (and I'm not sure if they're still recording some overdubs for guitar/keys), then they have to mix it, then master it, I'm not expecting anything too soon either. If they're estimating an album release early next year, then I think at least October.

[Dani Helios]

I hope an October single is gonna happen. I really wanna get my teeth stuck into some new DT stuff. I've went back to Mars Volta and Dananananakroyd now just because I've listened my favourite DT songs to death now.

[DarkLord_Lalinc]

I hope an October single is gonna happen. I really wanna get my teeth stuck into some new DT stuff. I've went back to Mars Volta and Dananananakroyd now just because I've listened my favourite DT songs to death now.

Not gonna happen, I think. They already said the album is going to be released in early 2016, so I expect a single by the end of this year at most.

[Kotowboy]

Really hoping we get something in the realm of a single and/or song teasers of some kind within the next month. This wait is starting to really dragggggggg.

Not for me. 2 years is really nothing and I still feel like DT12 just came out.

When new albums come out - I listen to them a lot for a couple of weeks then almost never again so i don't get sick of them immediately.

[Kotowboy]

I hope an October single is gonna happen. I really wanna get my teeth stuck into some new DT stuff. I've went back to Mars Volta and Dananananakroyd now just because I've listened my favourite DT songs to death now.

Not gonna happen, I think. They already said the album is going to be released in early 2016, so I expect a single by the end of this year at most.

Yeah - LaBrie only started tracking vocals a couple of weeks ago?? If they still have keys and solos to overdub - they'd still have to finalise a tracklist and sequencing - mix and master it and then

decide a single and do a video ? Unless they rush one out with a lyric video for hype but I can't see it happening.

[rumborak]

It doesn't have to be a single, but man, even just a small video, or even pictures, would be nice.