In a new conversation with Lots Of Muzik, Jordan Rudess commented on Dream Theater’s new album.
“I think everybody’s gonna love this [new album],” the keyboardist said of the band’s upcoming record. “I can pretty much guarantee it. We don’t mess around. We’re not people who take what we do lightly. We’re really serious.”
He stated, “We stay there and we work on things until they’re absolutely right and until everybody thinks that, ‘Okay, this is really great.’ So I have a feeling that all the Dream Theater fans around the world, they’re in for a really big treat.”
“If I’m being honest, I think it picks up right where ‘Black Clouds’ left off, to be honest,” Mike Portnoy also said about what to expect from the album. “There’s a certain style that the five of us have when we write together. And if you listen to the album with this lineup from 1999, ‘[Metropolis Pt. 2:] Scenes From A Memory,’ through 2009’s ‘Black Clouds & Silver Linings,’ if you look at that string of five or six albums, that’s the sound and style of these five people.”
The drummer continued his words, “So I think that’s a good indication of what you can expect with the new Dream Theater album. It definitely sounds like classic Dream Theater.”
“But Dream Theater is still old school where the band is in the studio the whole time. And it’s not like anybody’s doing anything at home separately. We do it all together, coming in one at a time to work and record,” Portnoy also explained about why the record takes so long in a separate interview.
Mike added, “So, yeah, it’s a longer process than I’ve had in quite some time. But it’s great… It’s the old way. It’s the way I always made records with Dream Theater. I just hadn’t done it that way in so long, but it is good. And the process is really detailed this way.”
Dream Theater completed writing the new album in April but there is no official release date yet. The band has been preparing for their 40th anniversary tour which will start in October.