“It’s been such a great ride, but we’re not going to stop.

“We approach every album like it’s our first,” adds LaBrie. Whenever we get together, we know we can’t disappoint ourselves or our fans, so we manage to try even harder.” We’ve been able to do this for a long time, and we don’t take it for granted. I love to be creative, write, and exercise that part of my mind. “We just love to play our instruments,” observes Petrucci. The album ultimately threaded together lean and uncompromising hooks with tried-and-true technical proficiency. In March 2021, he flew down to New York, quarantined, and recorded his vocals face-to-face with Petrucci. With LaBrie in Canada, he initially wrote with the band via ZOOM on a monitor in DTHQ. As fate would have it, they’d just finished construction on DTHQ (Dream Theater Headquarters) -a combination live recording studio, rehearsal space, control room, equipment storage, and creative hive. The musicians found themselves at home with LaBrie in Canada and the rest of the group in the States.

Dream Theater – comprised of James LaBrie, John Petrucci, Jordan Rudess, John Myung and Mike Mangini - was in the middle of a sold-out world tour in support of their last release Distance Over Time and the 20th anniversary of Scenes From A Memory when a Global Pandemic brought the world to a stop. Fans have waited patiently for the debut of Drake’s Views From The 6 album since his January announcement, and can now indulge in the tunes ahead of its official release date on Friday (Apr.

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