Dream Theater

Dream Theater drummer Mike Mangini was interviewed by our UK office while the band was over there performing at the High Voltage Festival back in July, and we've got the video below. Mangini talks about how much he's enjoying playing for the band's rabid fans, the process by which he was selected, and much more.

Dream Theater has been teasing fans with snippets from every song on their new album A Dramatic Turn of Events (except first single "On the Backs of Angels," which you can get from iTunes), and today they're offering 70 seconds of "Beneath the Surface," the last track on the disc. Head on over to PureVolume.com to check it out, and when you're done, why not pre-order the album through iTunes?.

Dream Theater's next studio album (their first with new drummer Mike Mangini), A Dramatic Turn of Events, will be in stores on September 13, but you can pre-order it from iTunes now. Click here to get the standard version of the album, with nine brand-new songs.

A lot of Roadrunner bands have new albums out or coming soon: Theory of a Deadman and Trivium's latest are already out, and Dream Theater, Opeth, and Machine Head will all be releasing hotly anticipated new albums in September. Many of these bands will also be hitting the road in support of their new music, too (check our tour page for dates).

As we've told you before, Dream Theater are teasing fans with snippets from each track on their new album (except for first single "On the Backs of Angels," which you can hear here in its entirety and buy from Amazon or iTunes), releasing one a week. Today, they're showcasing a minute or so of "Breaking All Illusions," the next-to-last track on the album.

New music from Dream Theater, Machine Head and Opeth is now streaming on this very site! Click here to hear "On the Backs of Angels," the first single from Dream Theater's forthcoming album A Dramatic Turn of Events, due out September 13! Click here to hear "Locust," the first single from Machine Head's forthcoming album Unto the Locust, due out September 27! Click here to hear "The Devil's Orchard," the first single from Opeth's forthcoming album Heritage, due out September 20!.

For one week only, Trivium are offering the song "Forsake Not the Dream," from their brand-new album In Waves, as a free download through iTunes. Click here to get a taste of the album absolutely free. In Waves is in stores today, in a standard CD format as well as a deluxe CD/DVD edition that includes five bonus tracks, a documentary about the making of the album, the video for the title track, and footage of the band performing eight songs, old and new, in a Florida warehouse.

"On The Backs Of Angels," the first single from Dream Theater's upcoming album A Dramatic Turn of Events, is on sale today. Click here to get it from iTunes! A Dramatic Turn of Events, the first Dream Theater album with new drummer Mike Mangini, will be released September 13.

Dream Theater have posted a 71-second snippet of "Bridges In The Sky," from their upcoming album A Dramatic Turn of Events. (For those keeping score, 71 seconds is 9.34% of the song's 11:03 running time.) Anyway, head over to Dream Theater's YouTube channel to check it out! A Dramatic Turn of Events will be out September 13..

Our UK office conducted an exclusive interview with Dream Theater frontman James LaBrie at this year's High Voltage festival, which took place Saturday, July 23 and Sunday, July 24, 2011 in Victoria Park, London. In the first clip, he discusses the process of replacing drummer Mike Portnoy with Mike Mangini, and in the second clip, he talks about the band's upcoming album, A Dramatic Turn of Events, due out September 13. Here's Part 1: And here's Part 2: A Dramatic Turn of Events can be pre-ordered now in a deluxe boxed set edition that includes vinyl and CD versions of the new album, a CD of instrumental versions of all the songs, a litho print of the album cover, a custom turntable slipmat and more.