Gitarristen John Petrucci skriver på Facebook att Dream Theater arbetar med ett nytt album.
Varför trummisen Mike Mangini inte var med under processen av förra albumet A Dramatic Turn Of Events förklarar Petrucci, ”I decided to do it this way because I wanted to make sure that we were able to focus on Dream Theater’s core compositional elements and sounds without a new person coming in. Whatever that Mike might have brought to the table, I thought it was too early to kind of bring in somebody that we didn’t really know at all, as far as their compositional abilities.”
Han fortsätter, ”I’ve been writing this music forever and just felt comfortable in that kind of environment. When you can focus on just guitar, keyboards, bass and our singer is there, it’s just a more intimate environment and you’re not trying to integrate somebody else and feel them out. I just kind of wanted to eliminate that whole process. I mean, it could have been great, but I was more comfortable doing it this way for this album at least. At this point, [Mangini has] been in the band for [more than] a year, we’ve already done a [couple of] tour[s] with him, we’re gonna have completed another full world tour, we have a chance to jam with him during sound checks and sit with him — we’ll know him way better. I think it’ll make more sense to bring him into that process for sure.”
Här under kan du se en lyric video till låten Build Me Up, Break Me Down från albumet A Dramatic Turn Of Events.
