“It’s almost like we’re so preposterously uncool that somehow we became cool”: the turbulent story of Dream Theater’s Images And Words, the album that changed the face of prog metal

Dream Theater posing fora photo in 1992.

Dream Theater can legitimately lay claim to ushering in the modern prog metal era, thanks to the breakthrough success of their 1992 album Images And Words. In 2005, drummer Mike Portnoy looked back at the trials, tribulations and triumphs of a record that opened up metal’s horizons.

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