John Petrucci - Terminal Velocity (feat. LaRue & Portnoy) Digital 8/28, CD 10/30

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

K-Boy!

Hey, speaking of Adam Jones, you need to pop over to your Tool thread and give us your thoughts on Fear Inoculum.

I haven't heard it but I imagine it's like every other Tool record: it sucks!

Edit: my arrogant self thought that was a request to me omg 

I don't really like anything before Lateralus.

I put on Ænima on a bus ride to work one day and once you realise that nearly the whole album is mono - you get tired of it very quickly.

Seriously why have all guitars bass and vocals in the middle ?!

it's so tiring to listen to.

Nah, it's fucking amazing.

Indeed 

[Lax]

Do you think it's related to the liquid tension somewhat reunion ? Like there will not be a LTE4 but this album features guests and at least one song with LTE members ?
I don't think Labrie is in, since he was interviewed about how long he hasn't spoke to portnoy

Or maybe it's a G3 oriented album.

[Elite]

Is it me, or is 'Terminal Velocity' a completely meaningless (and boring) title?

[ReaperKK]

It's not the greatest, it sounds exactly like something a solo prog guitarist would name their album.

[Evermind]

Is it me, or is 'Terminal Velocity' a completely meaningless (and boring) title?

It's not the greatest, it sounds exactly like something a solo pro guitarist would name their album.

Agreed. Not a fan of the title, but hopefully the album will be good.

[Zydar]

Yeah it sounds kind of generic, but it's the music that matters in the end.

[me7]

Distance / Time = Velocity
Terminal Velocity sounds like "Distance over Time 2: The final Chapter". A concept album that ties all the seemingly unrelated songs from DoT together. Maybe DoT was Metropolis Pt. 3 all along?

[The Walrus]

I like the title. I think it matches Suspended Animation well too. Two cool sounding scientific terms.

[Lonk]

↑↑↑ Agree with that. I like the title. Maybe it's because I've been reading a book that uses that term a lot but I like it.

[Adami]

It's hard to name an instrumental album. Since the album really isn't ABOUT anything. So you can either go with something simple like this or something super pretentious. I'd say he did fine.

[ariich]

It's hard to name an instrumental album. Since the album really isn't ABOUT anything. So you can either go with something simple like this or something super pretentious. I'd say he did fine.

I mean, some instrumental music definitely is written to be about something, but given what we know about how JP writes music, yeah it won't be.

[devieira73]

It's hard to name an instrumental album. Since the album really isn't ABOUT anything. So you can either go with something simple like this or something super pretentious. I'd say he did fine.

I mean, some instrumental music definitely is written to be about something, but given what we know about how JP writes music, yeah it won't be.

Speaking about it, I was surprised how Joe Satriani always composes with a lot of concepts in his mind. If you are curious, it's really nice to watch his track by track from his last album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djlxzscVq70

[The Walrus]

Joe's got some cool album titles in his catalog. Shockwave Supernova is one of my favorite titles.

[devieira73]

Joe's got some cool album titles in his catalog. Shockwave Supernova is one of my favorite titles.

As I big fan of Joe (I have all his solo albums), also one of his best IMO!

About the new JP album, really very excited about it! SA is almost perfect in my book.

[Volante99]

It's not the greatest, it sounds exactly like something a solo prog guitarist would name their album.

Literally the most generic title for a solo guitar/shred album. I’m blown away there wasn’t at least one Shrapnel release with the same title.

Petrucci is the best though, he can name it whatever he wants.

[gzarruk]

It's not the greatest, it sounds exactly like something a solo prog guitarist would name their album.

Literally the most generic title for a solo guitar/shred album. I’m blown away there wasn’t at least one Shrapnel release with the same title.

Petrucci is the best though, he can name it whatever he wants.

Indeed

[sfam2112]

Bets on whether or not Cloud Nine appears on TV? 

I'd say it's highly likely. He's got a backing track for it in this video: https://youtu.be/YnHNK8vVgEQ

[gzarruk]

Bets on whether or not Cloud Nine appears on TV? 

I'd say it's highly likely. He's got a backing track for it in this video: https://youtu.be/YnHNK8vVgEQ

Yeah! He also uploaded another video talking about his amp settings where he was playing a guitar track from Glassy-Eyed Zombies

[The Letter M]

New teaser!

https://twitter.com/JPetrucci/status/1273329566673768450?s=19

-Marc.

[TAC]

I see K-Boy wasting no time to harass the man.

[gzarruk]

There's still two threads about this, so I'm posting in both

Official album cover

[The Walrus]

That is some SICK art!! 

[goo-goo]

That is some SICK art!! 

Reminds me of the cover from the Flying Colors debut album...Hugh Syme style (stock image, copy paste and photoshop)

[gzarruk]

That is some SICK art!! 

Reminds me of the cover from the Flying Colors debut album...Hugh Syme style (stock image, copy paste and photoshop)

I know you're not implying Syme did this one, but just to clarify: "Artwork by Sean Mosher-Smith at Echo Designlab"

[Adami]

I think it looks awesome.

Though a bit like modern Kamelot.

[Northern Lion]

I'm really only posting here because I wanted to make sure I posted on both threads    .  But seriously, I am so very excited for this album to come out!  And the album cover looks very cool.

[Fritzinger]

I'm really only posting here because I wanted to make sure I posted on both threads    .  But seriously, I am so very excited for this album to come out!  And the album cover looks very cool.

Can please someone of the mods/admins put them into one thread 

[gzarruk]

I'm really only posting here because I wanted to make sure I posted on both threads    .  But seriously, I am so very excited for this album to come out!  And the album cover looks very cool.

Can please someone of the mods/admins put them into one thread 

Amen.

[The Letter M]

I'm really only posting here because I wanted to make sure I posted on both threads    .  But seriously, I am so very excited for this album to come out!  And the album cover looks very cool.

Can please someone of the mods/admins put them into one thread 

Amen.

Sure, just move the other thread here and merge it until mine. I posted it at least 2 minutes sooner. 

-Marc.

[Fritzinger]

I'm really only posting here because I wanted to make sure I posted on both threads    .  But seriously, I am so very excited for this album to come out!  And the album cover looks very cool.

Can please someone of the mods/admins put them into one thread 

Amen.

Sure, just move the other thread here and merge it until mine. I posted it at least 2 minutes sooner. 

-Marc.

Yeah, you ninja'd me, I admit it 

Not sure where the thread actually belongs though, since JP is very much a member of DT.

[The Letter M]

I'm really only posting here because I wanted to make sure I posted on both threads    .  But seriously, I am so very excited for this album to come out!  And the album cover looks very cool.

Can please someone of the mods/admins put them into one thread 

Amen.

Sure, just move the other thread here and merge it until mine. I posted it at least 2 minutes sooner. 

-Marc.

Yeah, you ninja'd me, I admit it 

Not sure where the thread actually belongs though, since JP is very much a member of DT.

I'd say here, if only because we have long-standing threads for other DT members' solo material here, like JLB.

-Marc.

[The Letter M]

JOHN PETRUCCI - TERMINAL VELOCITY
⠀
John Petrucci - Guitar
Dave LaRue - Bass
Mike Portnoy - Drums
⠀
TERMINAL VELOCITY
THE ODDFATHER
HAPPY SONG
GEMINI
OUT OF THE BLUE
GLASSY-EYED ZOMBIES
THE WAY THINGS FALL
SNAKE IN MY BOOT
TEMPLE OF CIRCADIA

New preview here - https://twitter.com/JPetrucci/status/1278342604485255169?s=19

-Marc.

[Zydar]

TERMINAL VELOCITY
THE ODDFATHER
HAPPY SONG
GEMINI
OUT OF THE BLUE
GLASSY-EYED ZOMBIES
THE WAY THINGS FALL
SNAKE IN MY BOOT
TEMPLE OF CIRCADIA

[The Walrus]

Missing the bonus track "Somebody's Poisoned The Water Hole"

Interesting that there's no keyboard player. Double interesting that MP is the drummer.

[TAC]

Mike Portnoy

Missing the bonus track "Somebody's Poisoned The Water Hole"