History

After Dream Theater's successful 5 Years In A Livetime, Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater called up , Jim Matheos of Fates Warning, Neal Morse of Spock's Beard and Pete Trewavas of Marillion. On Halloween 1998 in Marillion's newsletter 'eWeb', Pete Trewavas, verifies that Mike Portnoy is collaborating with other musicians to start one of the greatest and most plowerful Side Project that just had to become know as a supergroup.

Soon Matheos wasn't able to do the project and Roine Stolt from the Scandinavian Flower Kings was called apon for the project. After 3/4 of the year go by the foursome finally get a chance to play together, with all the music that had been written so far. Before July of 99' where they finally get together for their one and only recording session, they sent tapes of ideas through the mail. On July 3, posted on the Dream Theater website were some comments that all the members had made. "Paul, the studio owner wont let us out until we've made a mega prog CD" Roine Stolt comments.

October 10th 1999, according to Neal Morse, the group was titled as "Second Nature". A month later Stolt confirmed that the band would be named TRANSATLANTIC.