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Singer James LaBrie of Dream Theater was asked in a recent interview by Brazilian music journalist Igor Miranda if he and his bandmates have already begun discussing working on the follow-up to the “Parasomnia” album, which was released in February 2025, as per Blabbermouth.
Whenever we approach a new album, it’s where we feel that we’re all presently sitting in life, what is affecting us, what is inspiring us, and most importantly, what do we feel should be the next chapter in Dream Theater as far as another album, its music, what is it going to represent, and something we can stand behind 100%. So we usually slowly transition to that when we know that we’re gonna go into the studio, when we know we’re gonna be writing a new album. That’s when we start having the conversations as, ‘Hey, what do you guys think about maybe this kind of an album or…?’ And then at the same time, even regardless of all the conversations we have, each guy will come in with seeds of ideas, and we throw that on the floor. ‘Here we go, man.’ It’s there. Which do we feel is something that’s really cool and something that we can build on, something that we feel is going in the direction that we’ve been discussing? And so it’s kind of like that
Right now the focus is we’re on this world tour. We’re gonna be on the world tour until — what? — mid-May. And that’s the focus. Then we’re gonna take a break for a little bit. And then probably late ’26 or early ’27 we’ll get in to start writing and recording a new album. And then hopefully late ’27 or early ’28 we’ll go back out with a new tour. And this is just — this is all not concrete. But this seems to be the idea at this point.
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