Kevin Moore interview (excerpt)

Four years have passed since keyboardist Kevin Moore made an abrupt exit from Dream Theater at the height of their popularity, and seemingly fell off the face of the Earth. He resurfaced last year on Fates Warning’s A Pleasant Shade of Gray, and has just released Dead Air for Radios, the debut by his new project, Chroma Key.

“I moved away from that kind of music (progressive metal),” Moore explained in a phone interview. “You have to enjoy playing that kind of music and I didn’t enjoy playing it anymore. I just got burnt out with all the chops and impressing people.” When asked if, had he stuck around, he felt his music would be lacking in inspiration and execution, he said simply, “It already was,” indicating he was less than happy with his own work on Dream Theater’s Awake.

Upon leaving the band, Moore did a lot of soul searching, or as he put it, “I did a lot of writing and recording, and I also did a lot of nothing,” driving around the country, ending up in New Mexico where he began writing songs that would eventually turn up on Dead Air for Radios.