Originally published in Kerrang magazine 554 · July 1995
Dream Theater Prog Overload!
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New York noodlers to release half-hour long song!
Dream Theater will release a new EP, A Change Of Seasons, on September 5! And the title trakk runs for a staggering, Prog-tastic 23 minutes! The toon in question is like 10 songs rolled into one, wiv a lot of the band’s early musikal influences – Rush, Deep Purple – thrown in for good measure!
‘A Change Of Seasons’ was penned in 1989, and was originally to be inkluded on the Images And Words opus. But the version that will finally be released was laid down this May with producer David Prater.
“We’ve made it slightly longer!” beams skin-pounder Mike Portnoy. “But the basik strukture is still the same – it’s easily the most complex song we’ve ever written! And it’s the first time we’ve had the chance to work with (the band’s new ivory-tinkler) Derek Sherinian.”
The EP will also inklude live kover versions reckorded at DT’s Londow show at Ronnie Scoff’s on January 31! These are ‘Funeral For A Friend’/’Loves Lies Bleeding’ (Elton John), ‘Perfekt Strangers’ (Deep Purple), ‘The Rover’/’Achilles Last Stand’/’The Song Remains The Same’ (Led Zeppelin), and a medley featuring ‘In The Flesh’ (Pink Floyd), ‘Carry On My Wayward Son’ (Kansas), ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ (Queen), ‘Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’ ‘ (Journey), ‘Kruise Kontrol’ (Dixie Dregs) and ‘Turn It On Again’ (Genesis)!
Dream Theater are kurrently playing the European stadium cirkuit wiv the likes of Elton John! They’ll start work on their next studio album in the Autumn, while a video release is also being line up for Christmas!
—Xavier Russell