Maybe it's just a wrong impression, but I think that a little bit of reason could be attributed to LTE. They realized that, especially with Jordan, they could come up with amazing music in a short amount of time, and so they thought that could always be the case. So they wrote, wrote, wrote, we have 78 minutes, ok it's a wrap.
That may have been the case, but I don't necessarily think so. LTE was all about writing and recording an album in the studio simultaneously. Even with Awake, they wrote that album in less than a month. Same with ToT, which they did the "old" way. So I don't necessarily think that's the case.
I dunno. I just kind of feel like it's none of our business. They write in the way they feel works best for them. Period. We aren't part of the process and don't really have any insight beyond whatever opinion we happen to pull out of thin air. That isn't really worth a whole lot.
Perhaps. But how much of what we discuss - i.e. the inner workings of the band - is any of our business? We discuss it because we're interested in it. And so I'm having a hard time understanding why this should be singled out in comparison to many other aspects of the band. Again, considering the few occasions where they did write more than an album's worth of material, they ended up choosing at least some of the newer tracks over older ones. In fact, we might not even be having this discussion had they not written PMU, which was written when Derek Oliver asked them to write a few more tunes while they were waiting for the green light to get into the studio. So again, I fail to see how this could be a terrible idea, given the rapid clip that they can crank new material out.
It's different for traditional bands like Bon Jovi or Halestorm who write 30+ songs for every album and then choose what's "good enough" to be released officially or "bad enough" to be vaulted and maybe revisited at a later date or combined into a "new" song.
But honestly, why should it be different for DT in comparison to Bon Jovi or Halestorm? Why should they stop when they're on a roll creatively? Who know what they might come up with, if they follow their muse. Maybe even the next "Pull Me Under."