"BC&SL has songs like Learning to Live, A Change of Seasons, Pull Me Under, The Glass Prison and Octavarium all on it!"
Now, that is not a criticism of Portnoy because, hey, sometimes you have to talk your own band up, since, if you don't, no none else will sometimes
, but if silence means more focus and a better result, I am fine with it.
Granted, those updates he gave were usually cool and did generate a bit of excitement during the album-making process, but I thought we all knew by now that that kind of thing is not really the forte of anyone still in the band.
Ultimately, little updates and nuggets from the band along the way have nothing to do with how good the album will end up being, and to me, the end result, the music, is what matters the most. I don't remember them giving us much during the makings of ADTOE and DT12, and both of those albums turned out pretty great and really good, respectively, IMO.