Dream Theater Begin Recording New Album - Oct. 30, 2004
Progressive heavy rock giants
DREAM THEATER are scheduled to enter a New York City studio on Monday (Nov. 1) to begin recording the follow-up to 2003's
"Train of Thought". A spring/summer 2005 release through
Elektra Records is expected.
DREAM THEATER drummer
Mike Portnoy played a set with classic East Coast thrashers
OVERKILL on Friday (Oct. 29) for hard rock radio personality
Eddie Trunk's annual Halloween party.
Speaking to
Eddie live on
Q104.3 FM prior to the performance (which took place at the Hard Rock Café in New York City),
Portnoy said about the opportunity to jam with
OVERKILL, "It [is] awesome. To people that don't know me, they just know
DREAM THEATER, they probably think this is the most pairing in the world — the
OVERKILL fans probably think this is like
Neil Peart playing with
PANTERA. But [the people that] know me know my metal roots. I grew up going to see
OVERKILL at L'Amour [club in Brooklyn]. I would see
OVERKILL and
EXODUS and
TESTAMENT and
ANTHRAX and that whole scene — that whole scene, that old '80s scene, that whole metal scene, that was me, man. So this is totally in my blood, and I'm totally psyched."
Hope this is as good as Train of Thought

.