In a brand new interview with Troy Culpan of Australia’s May The Rock Be With You, Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy opened up about what it has been wish to be again on the highway with the progressive metallic giants after a 13-year absence.
Dream Theater performed their first present with Portnoy in 14 years on October 20, 2024, at London’s O2 Enviornment, marking a significant milestone for the band and its followers. A founding member, Portnoy initially performed on 10 Dream Theater albums between 1989’s When Dream And Day Unite and 2009’s Black Clouds & Silver Linings, earlier than departing the group in 2010. He formally returned in October 2023, changing Mike Mangini, who held the drum throne for 5 albums and a number of world excursions.
Requested how his return affected the band’s inventive course of in the course of the making of 2025’s Parasomnia, Portnoy stated the chemistry was immediately reignited: “We had been undoubtedly impressed writing collectively. We hadn’t written and recorded an album collectively since Black Clouds & Silver Linings, which got here out in 2009, however we made it in 2008.
So it had been 15 years since we had written and recorded an album collectively. We had been very impressed being collectively once more and having that chemistry — that creative and artistic chemistry that we at all times had. And it was instantly there as soon as we began engaged on the brand new album.”
With Parasomnia now out and the band deep into an intensive world tour, Portnoy made it clear that followers should not count on new music straight away: “We’ve got to attend, ‘trigger it has been a protracted tour. We have been out for a 12 months now. We began in October of 2024, and by the point we get all the way down to Australia [in February 2026] and wrap up the tour cycle just a few months after that, it’s going to have been a 12 months and a half on the highway.”
In keeping with Portnoy, the plan after the tour is to lastly gradual issues down earlier than diving again into writing: “As soon as the tour cycle wraps and concludes by subsequent spring or so, we’ll in all probability take the summer season off, ‘trigger it has been a protracted highway, after which begin interested by a brand new album after that.”
Whilst you’re ready for a brand new Dream Theater album, they have the next tour dates lined up for 2026. Get your tickets here.
1/27 Dubai, United Arab Emirates Coca-Cola Enviornment
1/30 Bengaluru, India Phoenix Marketcity Again Space
2/1 Kolkata, India Aquatic Floor
2/3 Singapore, Singapore The Star Theatre
2/4 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Zepp
2/7 Jakarta, Indonesia Stadion Madya
2/10 Adelaide, Australia Hindley Road Music Corridor
2/12 Melbourne, Australia Margaret Courtroom Enviornment
2/14 Sydney, Australia ICC Sydney Theatre
2/15 Brisbane, Australia Fortitude Music Corridor
2/18 Bangkok, Thailand Concept Reside
2/20 Seoul, South Korea Sol Journey Corridor
2/21 Seoul, South Korea Sol Journey Corridor
2/22 Seoul, South Korea Sol Journey Corridor
2/25 Tokyo, Japan Nippon Budokan
2/28 Toyohashi, Japan Aiplaza Toyohashi
3/2 Osaka, Japan Competition Corridor
3/3 Okayama, Japan Okayama Performing Arts Theatre
4/8 Monterrey, Mexico Enviornment Monterrey
4/10 Mexico Metropolis, Mexico Enviornment CDMX
4/12 San Juan, Puerto Rico Coliseo de Puerto Rico
4/16 San José, Costa Rica Venue TBC
4/18 Bogotá, Colombia Movistar Enviornment
4/20 Lima, Peru Costa 21
4/24 Buenos Aires, Argentina Movistar Enviornment
4/26 Córdoba, Argentina Plaza de la Música
5/3 Porto Alegre, Brazil Auditório Araújo Vianna
5/5 Curitiba, Brazil Reside Curitiba
5/7 Brasília, Brazil Dois Ipês
5/9 São Paulo, Brazil Vibra
5/10 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Vivo Rio
5/12 Belo Horizonte, Brazil Befly Corridor
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