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http://www.mikeportnoy.com/forum/m2268614.aspx

Quoth Mike Portnoy:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 13, 2009
 
New York, NY:
 
Progressive metal veterans DREAM THEATER have announced BLACK CLOUDS & SILVER LININGS as the title of their tenth studio album.  The band commenced work on the album – their second for Roadrunner Records, following up 2007's Systematic Chaos — in October of last year.
 
Roadrunner will release the record on June 23. In addition to the standard version CD, the album will also be available on vinyl LP, as well as a 3-disc Special Edition CD that will include the full album, a CD of instrumental mixes of the album and a CD of six cover songs, the titles of which will be revealed at a later date.
 
Six weeks prior to the June 23 street date, Roadrunner will release one cover song per week through digital retailers.
 
Drummer Mike Portnoy and guitarist John Petrucci are once again at the helm as producers, while Paul Northfield mixed the record.
 
The band will embark on a world tour in support of the album beginning in Europe throughout June which will be followed by the second edition of the band's PROGRESSIVE NATION tour featuring Zappa Plays Zappa, Pain Of Salvation and Beardfish throughout North America in July/August.
 
A video for the first single, "A Rite of Passage" will be shot in late March.
 
The track listing for BLACK CLOUDS & SILVER LININGS is as follows:
 
1. A Nightmare to Remember
2. A Rite of Passage
3. Wither
4. The Shattered Fortress
5. The Best of Times
6. The Count of Tuscany

Now kindly clean your drool on the way out.

The link doesn't work!

....BLOODY THING!

MP's endorsement should indeed boost sales of EIMA to some degree, which is very cool.  Would love to hear DT do a Frost* cover - Hyperventilate, perhaps? Anyone else foresee a future side project with Jem and MP?  Liquid Tension Experiments in Mass Appeal?

Pfah.  It would be quite great to hear MP and JG working together.  But the former is too much of an airhead for that.

It's like they say: nobody hates Dream Theater more than their fans! :mrgreen:



And no, I'm afraid I don't quite know who 'they' is and why 'they' would make such a preposterous claim.

*smacks forehead*

Gah, of course!  I feel like such a fool.  Thank you for clearing things up for me, and sorry to take your time.

Oh yeah, as am I.  But a guy can dream, right?

I hear lots of talk here about "the family."

Dear Dead Days:

Welcome to the family.

No Me No You:

You disavow the family.

So what's the deal there?  And the way I see it, both songs involve two people: one who controls, and one who is controlled.  Dear Dead Days seems to be about someone who has made the narrator into his/her "property."  No Me No You sounds to me like the narrator from the original breaking away from whoever "owned" him or her, saying there's "No Me No You" any longer: just me.

Whatcha think?

Yesssss.  I was just about to post this.  Hopefully EIMA will have some influence on the next Dream Theater album.

Oh....possibly.

Yes sorry, will do, I'm just dealing with something fairly significant at the moment, full announcement soon.

Jx

That one.

Very excited for the big announcement. :mrgreen:

SO MUCH NOISE

Noooo Frosties* forum, don't die....

I only left because I got obsessed with Dream Theater all over again, I didn't mean it.

Anything at all to do with RAWK!!!

It is indeed.  And the piece, in retrospect, is a bit crap.  I tried to do too many things at once.

It's not that bad....is it?