What was Dream Theater thinking about when they wrote the music to The Glass Prison?
MP: We wrote this song in three separate movements, which was something I suggested, and “Holy Wars…The Punishment Due” by Megadeth and also “Mouth For War” by Pantera inspired it. I played both of them for the band as an example of how they were kind of written in three separate movements and I wanted to try something like that. I also wanted to keep it completely balls to the wall heavy from start to finish. We have always had very heavy sections in our music, but usually they go off on these tangents. This was the first time that we actually concentrated on heaviness from start to finish without really ever letting up.
