Progressive metallers DREAM THEATER are planning to regroup in late spring to begin work on material for the follow-up to 2016’s “The Astonishing” album. “We’re not gonna get into the studio until May,” keyboardist Jordan Rudess told VintageRock.com at last weekend’s NAMM show in Anaheim, California. “So, you know, it’ll take some time to create it, and then once we’ve composed it all and recorded it all, and then to make all the packaging and all the stuff, and who knows? It’ll probably come out, let’s say, in a year or so, or maybe a little less. And we’ll hit the road sometime after that. But May is the time when we’re looking to get in the studio again.”