Images And Words (CD)

Dream Theater may not have been the very first to combine heavy metal's biting guitars with progressive rock's complex structures and virtuosic displays, but they were certainly at the vanguard of the prog-metal paradigm in the late '80s. By the '90s, they had become the definitive avatars of the genre. They were also the nexus for numerous prog supergroup offshoots, such as Transatlantic, Liquid Tension Experiment, and Explorers Club.

• Category:  Music  »  Hard Rock & Metal  »  Progressive Metal
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: June 15, 1992
• Label: EastWest America
• UPC: 075679214829
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106705916
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #9667 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #312 in Hard Rock & Metal (See Top 100 Hard Rock & Metal Bestsellers)
• #9 in Progressive Metal (See Top 100 Progressive Metal Bestsellers)

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Dream Theater: James La Brie (vocals); John Petrucci (guitar); Kevin Moore (keyboards); John Myung (bass); Mike Portnoy (drums, percussion).

Additional personnel: Jay Beckenstein (soprano saxophone).

Recorded at Bear Tracks Studio, Suffern, New York and The Hit Factory, New York, New York between October & December 1991.

While continuing to improve its musical chops and explore more progressive territory, Dream Theater reached its mainstream apex with 1992's IMAGES AND WORDS. Here the group capably combined prog-rock high-mindedness with metal crunch and commercial accessibility on the opening track "Pull Me Under," helping to snare an audience big enough to push this album past gold sales status.

What makes IMAGES AND WORDS stand out is the fluid marriage of shred tactics, soaring vocals, and catchy hooks, all wrapped up in a polished studio sound. Fans can argue whether this is the band's best, but there is no denying the power of epic, engaging songs like "Take the Time," "Under a Glass Moon," and "Metropolis - Part I," a track that foreshadowed the 1999 outing SCENES FROM A MEMORY. Following IMAGES AND WORDS, Dream Theater became increasingly complex in its approach, to varying degrees of success, but this album represents a time when the ensemble brought progressive metal to the masses with little compromise.

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