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Dream Theatre
Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 by John Petrucci, John Myung and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
To date, Dream Theater has released fourteen studio albums:
The band's highest-selling release is their second album "Images and Words" (1992), which reached No. 61 on the Billboard 200 chart. Both the albums "Awake" (1994) and "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence" (2002) also entered the charts at No. 32 and No. 46, respectively, and received critical acclaim. Their fifth album, "Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory" (1999), was ranked No. 95 on the October 2006 issue of "Guitar World" magazine's list of The greatest 100 guitar albums of all time. It is ranked as the 15th Greatest Concept Album as of March 2003 by "Classic Rock Magazine".
As of 2018, Dream Theater has sold over 12 million records worldwide and has received two Grammy Award nominations. Along with Queensrÿche and Fates Warning, the band has been referred to as one of the "big three" of the progressive metal genre, responsible for its development and popularization.
To date, Dream Theater has released fourteen studio albums:
- When Dream and Day Unite (1989)
- Images and Words (1992)
- Awake (1994)
- Falling into Infinity (1997)
- Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory (1999)
- Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (2002)
- Train of Thought (2003)
- Octavarium (2005)
- Systematic Chaos (2007)
- Black Clouds & Silver Linings (2009)
- A Dramatic Turn of Events (2011)
- Dream Theater (2013)
- The Astonishing (2016)
- Distance over Time (2019)
The band's highest-selling release is their second album "Images and Words" (1992), which reached No. 61 on the Billboard 200 chart. Both the albums "Awake" (1994) and "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence" (2002) also entered the charts at No. 32 and No. 46, respectively, and received critical acclaim. Their fifth album, "Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory" (1999), was ranked No. 95 on the October 2006 issue of "Guitar World" magazine's list of The greatest 100 guitar albums of all time. It is ranked as the 15th Greatest Concept Album as of March 2003 by "Classic Rock Magazine".
As of 2018, Dream Theater has sold over 12 million records worldwide and has received two Grammy Award nominations. Along with Queensrÿche and Fates Warning, the band has been referred to as one of the "big three" of the progressive metal genre, responsible for its development and popularization.
