The progessive Hard-Rock band Dream Theater, was first formed in New York, USA, in September of 1985, when Berklee School of Music students guitarist John Petrucci, bassist John Myung and drummer Mike Portnoy decided to start a band together; originally known as Majesty, the fledgling act recruited singer Chris Collins and keyboardist Kevin Moore into the fold.
Collins left the band, before Dream Theater released its debut album, 1989's "When Dream And Day Unite", Charlie Dominici replaced him on vocals. But the label didn't have the funds to take them one step further with tour support or a video and the album failed to make any impact.
A year later, Dominici was fired from the group; in late 1991 Canadian vocalist Kevin James LaBrie joined to record the band's second LP, "Images And Words"; issued on Atco Records in the summer of 1992, the album broke into The Billboard Top 200 chart and reached its peak at #61; it spawned three Mainstream Rock top 30 hits including the #10 "Pull Me Under", "Another Day" and "Take The Time".
October 1994 saw the release of "Awake", which rose to #32 on The Billboard 200 becoming their highest-charting album, it contained only one Active Rock top 40 hit, "Lie"; after the album was finished Moore left the group to focus on his solo career.
The remainder of Dream Theater replaced him with keyboard player Derek Sherinian.
The group's next record, the 5-track EP "Change Of Seasons", issued in 1995, climbed the U.S. Billboard Top 200 chart hitting #58.
Two years later, the quintet unleashed their fourth studio-effort, "Falling Into Infinity" which reached the #52 position on The Billboard 200 Albums and yielded two Mainstream Rock top 40 singles: "Burning My Soul" and "You Not Me".
Soon after, Sherinian left to be replaced by Jordan Rudess, who had already played with Petrucci and Portnoy in a side-project.
In October 1999 Dream Theater released its fifth studio album, "Scenes From A Memory", which entered The Billboard Top 200 chart at #73.
Personnel changes, label turnover and the ill-timed release of 2001's "Live Scenes From New York", which arrived on September 11, 2001, with cover art featuring a New York skyline against a backdrop of flames, roiled the group but never truly deflected it from its musical path.
"Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence", a double-CD semi-concept album, was released in late January 2002, it peaked at #46 on The Billboard Top 200 list.
Over the course of 2003 John Petrucci released an eponymous-titled solo effort and "Train Of Thought" with the band; the group's seventh full-length album reached the #53 slot on the U.S. Top 200 chart producing the Metal-radio hit single "As I Am".
2005's "Octavarium" was not only the eighth studio album from Dream Theater, their first released on Atlantic Records, but it also marked 20 years of existence for this majestic outfit; it peaked at #34 on The Billboard 200.
Dream Theater's upcoming release "Systematic Chaos" will be released on Tuesday June 5, date may vary in different countries and will be available in two formats: regular edition 8-track CD and a special edition CD-DVD set, the DVD will include the entire album mixed in 5.1 surround sound as well as a 90-minute documentary directed by Mike Portnoy, "Chaos In Progress - The Making Of Systematic Chaos".
Album List :
When Dream And Day Unite
(1989)
1. A Fortune In Lies
2. Status Seeker
3. The YTSE Jam
4. The Killing Hand
I) The Observance
II) Ancient Renewal
III) The Stray Seed
IV) Thorus
V) Exodus
5. Light Fuse And Get Away
6. After Life
7. The Ones Who Help To Set The Sun
8. Only A Matter Of Time
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Images And Words
(1992)
1. Pull Me Under
2. Another Day
3. Take The Time
4. Surrounded
5.Metropolis - Part I The Miracle And The Sleeper
6. Under A Glass Moon
7. Wait For Sleep
8. Learning To Live
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(1994)
1. 6:00
2. Caught In A Web
3. Innocence Faded
4. Erotomania
5. Voices
6. The Silent Man
7. The Mirror
8. Lie
9. Lifting Shadows Off A Dream
10. Scarred
11. Space-Dye Vest
DownloadA Change Of Seasons [EP]
(1995)
1. A Change Of Seasons
I) The Crimson Sunrise
II) Innocence
III) Carpe Diem
IV) The Darkest of Winters
V) Another World
VI) The Inevitable Summer
VII) The Crimson Sunset
2. Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding
3. Perfect Strangers
4. The Rover / Achilles Last Stand / The Song Remains The Same
5. The Big Medley
DownloadFalling Into Infinity(1997)
1. New Millennium
2. You Not Me
3. Peruvian Skies
4. Hollow Years
5. Burning My Soul
6. Hell's Kitchen
7. Lines In The Sand
8. Take Away My Pain
9. Just Let Me Breathe
10. Anna Lee
11. Trial Of Tears
I) It's Raining
II) Deep In Heaven
III) The Wasteland
DownloadScenes From A Memory
(1999)
1. Regression
2. Overture 1928
3. Strange Deja Vu
4. Through My Words
5. Fatal Tragedy
6. Beyond This Life
7. Through Her Eyes
8. Home
9. The Dance Of Eternity
10. One Last Time
11. The Spirit Carries On
12. Finally Free
DownloadSix Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
(2002)
DISC #1:
1. The Glass Prison
2. Blind Faith
3. Misunderstood
4. The Great Debate
5. Disappear
DISC #2:
1. Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
I) Overture
II) About To Crash
III) War Inside My Head
IV) The Test That Stumped Them All
V) Goodnight Kiss
VI) Solitary Shell
VII) About To Crash [reprise]
VIII) Losing Time / Grand Finale
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(2003)
1. As I Am
2. This Dying Soul
3. Endless Sacrifice
4. Honor Thy Father
5. Vacant
6. Stream Of Consciousness
7. In The Name Of God
DownloadOctavarium
(2005)
1. The Root Of All Evil
2. The Answer Lies Within
3. These Walls
4. I Walk Beside You
5. Panic Attack
6. Never Enough
7. Sacrificed Sons
8. Octavarium
DownloadSystematic Chaos
(2007)
1. In The Presence Of Enemies, Pt.1
2. Forsaken
3. Constant Motion
4. The Dark Eternal Night
5. Repentance
6. Prophets Of War
7. The Ministry Of Lost Souls
8. In The Presence Of Enemies, Pt.2
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Comprisig three-quarter of the original Creed's line-up, guitarist Mark Tremonti, bassist Brian Marshall and drummer Scott Phillips, the Alternative-Rock band Alter Bridge formed in January of 2004 in Orlando Florida USA, they hooked up with singer Myles Kennedy and started to work on their debut album.
1. Down To My Last
1. Ties That Bind
