DREAM THEATER Keyboardist On Upcoming Album: 'This Is Gonna Be Such An Amazing Record'

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Progressive metal giants DREAM THEATER have finished recording all the parts for their follow-up to 2016's "The Astonishing" album. An early 2019 release is expected. Keyboardist Jordan Rudess said: "This is gonna be such an amazing record. It's got so much energy. [I'm] very happy with all the keyboard parts. Listening back, all you can do is smile." DREAM THEATER vocalist James LaBrie recently stated about the new material, "There's a heaviness to it, there's an aggression to it," while guitarist John Petrucci added: "So far the music is heavy, it's progressive, it's melodic, it's shredding, and it's also epic. So it has all those elements, which… they are the five pillars of DREAM THEATER, if you wanna call it that." Petrucci hinted in a recent interview that DREAM THEATER's next album will be musically inspired by the "Images, Words & Beyond" tour, which saw the pioneering group celebrating the 25th anniversary of its milestone RIAA-gold-certified album "Images And Words". DREAM THEATER's next studio album — its 14th — will be the band's first for Sony Music's progressive imprint InsideOut Music. The group spent the past 25 years recording under various labels in the Warner Music Group system, most recently Roadrunner Records, which released five albums by the band between 2007 and 2016.

DT14 - Keyboard Tracking Finished!
The wizard Jordan Rudess has finished tracking keyboards for the new Dream Theater album! ??

Posted by Dream Theater on Thursday, September 6, 2018​

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