Dream Theater: The Astonishing (now with moment of betrayal!)

[RoeDent]

Plus, Jordan said it was a photo shoot. 

Yeah, suggesting otherwise is taking DTF speculation to the extreme.

JR also said "Scenes from a photoshoot". METROP0L1S PT. 3 CONF1MRED!!! 

[porcacultor]

What is a video if not sequential photos...

[AboutToCrash]

C SHARP POWERCHORD CONFIRMED 

[dparrott]

*** - Standing on The Shoulder of Giants had just come out and someone asked him what it was like and he said :

" i'd give it 8 out of 10. There's two shit songs on it ".

gotta love Noel.

Heh...he also said that about Dig Out Your Soul.  B-sides on an album just make it worse.  Don't get the logic just having them as filler unless there is an album length requirement.

[Kotowboy]

*** - Standing on The Shoulder of Giants had just come out and someone asked him what it was like and he said :

" i'd give it 8 out of 10. There's two shit songs on it ".

gotta love Noel.

Heh...he also said that about Dig Out Your Soul.  B-sides on an album just make it worse.  Don't get the logic just having them as filler unless there is an album length requirement.

Dig Out Your Soul was a really good album bar the last two songs. The Nature Of Reality and Soldier On really hurt that album. It could have been great but in the end it was merely good and following

the return-to-form of Don't Believe The Truth it was a slight letdown. But at least they ended after two pretty decent albums instead of splitting after Be Here Now and Standing On The Shoulder of

Giants and tarnishing their legacy entirely.


Some bands have one or two classics only go on to release terrible albums and never recover.

[KevShmev]

If you could ask the band one question at this stage about the new record, what would it be?

Is the volume on the new record going to be "one louder" than it was on DT12?

[Kotowboy]

If you could ask the band one question at this stage about the new record, what would it be?

Is the volume on the new record going to be "one louder" than it was on DT12?

There's no volume louder than 12.

[ariich]

C SHARP POWERCHORD CONFIRMED 

Unless it is in a different tuning.

JR also said "Scenes from a photoshoot". METROP0L1S PT. 3 CONF1MRED!!! 

OH LORDY

[Kotowboy]

C SHARP POWERCHORD CONFIRMED 

Unless it is in a different tuning.

Depends if you're one of those musicians that plays an open G shape chord in a lower tuning and still calls it a G chord ( regardless of pitch ).

[Prog Snob]

C SHARP POWERCHORD CONFIRMED 

Unless it is in a different tuning.

Depends if you're one of those musicians that plays an open G shape chord in a lower tuning and still calls it a G chord ( regardless of pitch ).

It's a G chord based on the notes not the shape or positioning...obviously.

[home]

C SHARP POWERCHORD CONFIRMED 

Unless it is in a different tuning.

Depends if you're one of those musicians that plays an open G shape chord in a lower tuning and still calls it a G chord ( regardless of pitch ).

That's just not right, it might be called a g-shape chord, but it's not a g chord

[Kotowboy]

If the guitar is tuned to D std and i'm trying to teach someone a song.

I would say the chords are C G and D because it's less confusing than saying Bb, F and C .

[home]

If the guitar is tuned to D std and i'm trying to teach someone a song.

I would say the chords are C G and D because it's less confusing than saying Bb, F and C .

But then you are talking about the shape/positioning not about the chord itself.

And oh what a usefull discussion

[thosava]

Are we only getting updates on mondays now, or will we get a new update today?

[Kotowboy]

If the guitar is tuned to D std and i'm trying to teach someone a song.

I would say the chords are C G and D because it's less confusing than saying Bb, F and C .

But then you are talking about the shape/positioning not about the chord itself.

That's what I am saying.

[Nomaniac]

Are we only getting updates on mondays now, or will we get a new update today?

I was wondering the same . . .

[Train of Naught]

I'm pretty sure bosk said there will still be updates in roughly the same pattern as before, so I expect it to be the usual Monday and Thursday, but could be a few days later idk.

[Nomaniac]

Perhaps it has something to do with the holidays . . . maybe they take a day off from updating?

[thosava]

For three weeks or something they updated every monday and thursday. But then there was no update last thursday, and a bigger one this monday.

[RoeDent]

I'm getting Romeo & Juliet vibes from Act 2, in that the death of Faythe (My Last Farewell/Losing Faythe) brings the GNE and the RRM back together, or at least sets it in motion.

[RMGadelha]

I'm getting Romeo & Juliet vibes from Act 2, in that the death of Faythe (My Last Farewell/Losing Faythe) brings the GNE and the RRM back together, or at least sets it in motion.

In my case, I want the rebel scum to perish 

[the_silent_man]

So wikipedia has the album release date of Jan 29th. Has this been confirmed by the band? Or is it just nonsense someone made up on wikipedia?

[Kotowboy]

So wikipedia has the album release date of Jan 29th. Has this been confirmed by the band? Or is it just nonsense someone made up on wikipedia?

Well it is a Friday so who knows.

[Enigmachine]

So wikipedia has the album release date of Jan 29th. Has this been confirmed by the band? Or is it just nonsense someone made up on wikipedia?

It's taken from the German Amazon page for the album.

[Pax]

https://www.amazon.de/Astonishing-Dream-Theater/dp/B018H6M7CW/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1448478357&sr=1-1&keywords=dream%20theater
Here's the reference

[noxon]

Nothing is 100% set in stone, but you can assume that date is quite likely the release date in europe.

[Nihil-Morari]

So, that means we can build a countdown clock somewhere 

I remember making the countdown to ToT (or possibly Octavarium, can't be sure) the screensaver on my computer.

[RoeDent]

Albums are released on the same day worldwide these days.

[noxon]

Often it is, but it's not necessarily always so.

[countoftuscany42]

That is a lot of the reason why the date moved to Friday, now it's far more consistent worldwide. There are exceptions, but in general everything is out at the same time now

[CharlesPL]

29th January - SDoIT It sounds similar.Just like FII and DT12 issued on the same day

[ResultsMayVary]

Often it is, but it's not necessarily always so.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the industry changed most releases to Fridays this past July to keep a simultaneous worldwide release schedule.

[Prog Snob]

Often it is, but it's not necessarily always so.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the industry changed most releases to Fridays this past July to keep a simultaneous worldwide release schedule.

You are correct.

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/07/10/421483599/goodbye-music-tuesday-starting-today-albums-come-out-on-friday

[RoeDent]

That's it. So if there is a difference between release dates in different areas, 1. it will go against the general tide of how things are done now, and 2. the difference will probably be a full week either way.

[Frankgate]

Amazon's release dates sometimes differ from the "actual ones"
I wouldn't consider January 29 as a fact.