Rock act Dream Theater will release its next album, Octavarium, June 7 via Atlantic.  

“We wrote it and recorded it at (New York’s) the Hit Factory, which is now closed – we were the last session in that studio,” guitarist John Petrucci tells Billboard.com. Asked how Octavarium differs from its predecessor, Train of Thought, Petrucci explains: “The album before this we wrote in the rehearsal period, constructed all the songs and then went into the studio and recorded them. The style from song to song was pretty consistent; that album was pretty dark and heavy and very riffy, sort of metal (or) progressive metal-sounding.