I seriously hope DT won't try to cover something from every single album for the upcoming world tour like they did with the Octavarium tour.
Simply because we got now more albums.
Certainly they will be releasing some sort of Score+10 for 2016, however, rather than covering a song from each album, I think the shows should be more flexible and better structured, which is what MP did very well. What sounds good? What fits? What kind of show do we want to give?
When groups add themselves limitations like this (they are forced to pick one song from each album), it also affects their creativity and the flow of the show, especially at this point of the band's career where they got so much material that they got to play shorter and not so-satisfying songs (Wither? I mean, like, why? Having ARoP)
Now, if this is the case for the festivals, I can only assume that the first act from each show of the world tour (which I hope is in the Evening format) will cover relevant songs from DT's history, and that's okay. I would rather have a full metal show with heavy songs and then flowing into quiet, calmer songs, than having one heavy song and then of sudden a calm one and then yet another heavy one and so on. You can leave Awake in peace for the time-being, I seriously don't want to hear anything from Awake after the last tour, yet I really wanna hear some Anna Lee that flows into Through Her Eyes, there you would have a calm section for a show.
I don't know, but these are my thoughts huh
Totally agree with you, it limits the band's creativity a lot set-wise, and I think it's fine for now while they're still working on the new album and can't really Take the Time (haha) to learn a lot of new stuff for their live performances, but for instance, I'd like to see a better concert closer than Behind the Veil during their world tour, something like Finally Free is way more epic as a closer, and they would still be able to put BTV in the set, just not at the end.
Finally Free as a closer?
I don't think so
for me that song is a nice way to end a "special show" like a DVD or to end a show where SFAM is played in its entirety or something in that terms.
but for any other kind of show its feels kinda weird, it doesn't flow well IMO.
A similar feeling came to me when i saw that they are playing About to Crash. Is a good song and a cool thing to do to play it again after so long, but i can't see that song flowing in a setlist without WIMH after it (or any song right after it). I mean the begining is great but at the end of the song it begins reflect the fact that is a part of a bigger song (SDOIT) more than a stand alone one. And that to me, is something that doesn't help the momentum of the show.
I'd rather see from SDOIT (album) a "more stand alone song" like Misunderstood, BF, or even AtC Reprise maybe.
Actually it would be cool if they could play that both songs together, AtC and AtC (reprise).
Yes, this kind of setlist may affect the band's creativity in setlists term but i think they still can find a way to make it feel like fresh and new again, without change this thing where they play one song of each album.
Actually they could put all the AA saga in there as a way to visit each album from SDOIT to Silver Linings.
Who knows, maybe they'll go with that in a further part of the tour.