Dream Theater Enter Studio to Record 12th album

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   I was rather a bit disapointed with the last album.  It did have all the elements that have made previous DT albums brilliant (plus some of those elements that could make them not so brilliant), but in the end I guess that's it's very flaw.  It's just more of the same.  For 3 or 4 albums that might be good, but after 11 albums, perhaps it's a bit too much.  Plus, most important, even though most of it's songs may be very good, they just aren't as good as their best songs from previous albums.  I might say the songs sound uninspired.  I really hope Mangini really gets into the writing process (and that he proves himself up to the task), I guess a bit of new perspective could do the band a lot of good.  Also, I wish they would make the album shorter, and stick to the very best they can come up with, without trying to fill the 80 min that a CD can hold.  I have found that even though I really love DT and have an enormous amound of music that I enjoy, there's no one single album that I would call a masterpiece, and that's because on every album there's an important amount of songs that I don't care for.  However, I have also noticed that for most of their albums I could easily chose over 40 min of music at least that I love, and if those albums only had those songs they would all be masterpieces for me (and the only album that has a whole CD that I love is a double album, and I don't really care for the other CD).