In 2017 progressive metal forefathers Dream Theater’s milestone album Images And Words turned 25. As the band prepared to play their second record on a European tour, they told Prog about the producer spats and label woes that surrounded the project, and reflected on how far they’d come since then.
The world was a very different place in 1992. Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains numbered among music’s most pre-eminent names, 65 innocents were murdered in the Manchester bombings and Bill Clinton had just collected the keys to the White House. Peter Gabriel, Yes and Genesis still flew the flag for sounds of substance –though despite a popular tour the writing was on the wall for the latter thanks to the previous year’s woeful We Can’t Dance. Meanwhile, Metallica were still carving inroads to the mainstream via their self-titled album that eventually shifted more than 15 million units in the States alone.
