TANGRA INTERVIEW - JOHN PETRUCCI of DREAM THEATER

09 November 2021

DREAM THEATER have just released their 15th studio LP, "A View From The Top Of The World".

The seven-song efforts marks the second studio album with InsideOut Music/Sony Music. DREAM THEATER are set to return to Sofia on 30 May 2022 with DEVIN TOWNSEND as special guest.

Two months prior to the official street day of the album we are talking to guitarist JOHN PETRUCCI who also produced the "A View From The Top Of The World".

an interview conducted by Vassil Varbanov

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The title of your new album is A VIEW FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLD – presumably written while you were hiding in the basement… (at the time of this interview the city of NY was hit by the IDA hurricane).

That’s exactly right hahahah

So who came up with this title?

I came up with it after I wrote the lyrics to the title track, the epic “A View from the Top of the World”. I was trying to think of a title for weeks and weeks and weeks! I had so many different titles and contenders, but nothing was really hitting me and then I just looked at that song title one day and I was like - you know what, that would actually make for a great album title and it would be cool, because the epic would actually be the title track. Once I presented that to the guys everybody was into it and it worked out.

Now the next question may sound a bit childish, it’s about the first single, “The Alien”. I say childish because since day one all of us have been asking ourselves this…So, do you actually believe extraterrestrials exist, or is this just a metaphor?

Actually the song isn’t about extraterrestrials. It’s about terraforming, you know, moving off of this planet to go live on another planet and becoming the alien yourself. But having said that, there’s no way we’re the only life forms out there. There have to be more, right? The universe is just too big!

Well at least that’s what we’re all hoping, because the place we live in hasn’t been looking too good these past couple of years…

That’s true hahah.

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