DREAM THEATER's JAMES LABRIE Talks To Russia's CLASSIC ROCK Magazine (Video)

April 17, 2014

Paul Potapov of Russia's Classic Rock maagzine conducted an interview with vocalist James LaBrie of progressive metal giants DREAM THEATER on February 28 in Moscow. You can now watch the chat below.

DREAM THEATER's latest, self-titled album sold around 34,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 7 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD arrived in stores on September 24, 2013 via Roadrunner.

In a November 2013 interview with Screamer Magazine, LaBrie stated about the band's continued success: "I think a lot of it has to do with [the fact that] DREAM THEATER kind of cultivated our base from the very beginning through incessant and relentless touring around the world. We'd do an album and then we'd follow the album with a tour that lasts anywhere from a year to a year and a half and then we'd take a few months off and then we're back in the studio. So it's almost like a 2-3-year cycle that we've kept up since, basically, 1992 when we came out with 'Images And Words'. So I think that really gained us some notoriety around the world. As far as North America goes, a lot of that has been through making sure that we get into as many areas as possible every time we tour and building the audience that way. And I think, basically, that is what we've attained throughout the many years — building our audience from being known as a live band, a live entity — and that's really helped to create this awareness of us."

DREAM THEATER's spirit of adventure and fearless musical virtuosity continues to reap dividends for the progressive metal titans who recently earned their second Grammy nomination, this time for "Best Metal Performance" for their single "The Enemy Inside" from their current self-titled album. The band — John Petrucci (guitar),John Myung (bass),James LaBrie (vocals),Jordan Rudess (keyboards & continuum) and Mike Mangini (drums) — received its first-ever Grammy nomination in 2012 for "On The Backs Of Angels" (from their "A Dramatic Turn Of Events" album) in the "Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance" category.

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