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DREAM THEATER: Video Interview With MIKE PORTNOY, JOHN PETRUCCI Available

May 12, 2008

Headbanger's Blog has posted the first set of interviews with DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy and guitarist John Petrucci about the origins of the band's Progressive Nation festival, the groups on the bill, DREAM THEATER's upcoming DVD their longevity as the band and much, more more. Watch the first of two days of interviews below.

As previously reported, DREAM THEATER recently recorded a cover version of the IRON MAIDEN classic "To Tame a Land" for a forthcoming MAIDEN tribute album that is being released via Britain's Kerrang! magazine. No further details are currently available.

DREAM THEATER's first-ever best-of collection, "Greatest Hit (& 21 Other Pretty Songs)", was released through Rhino on April 1 at all physical retail outlets and www.rhino.com for a suggested retail price of $19.98 and at all digital retail outlets for a suggested retail price of $12.99. The collection contains three newly remixed versions of tracks from DREAM THEATER's breakout 1992 album, "Images And Words": "Pull Me Under" as well as "Take The Time" and "Another Day". The collection's 22 songs are split evenly between two discs, which are divided into "The Dark Side" (the metallic) and "The Light Side" (the melodic).

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