Dream Theater

It was in 1986 that John Myung (bass) and John Petrucci (guitar) met Mike Portnoy (battery) at the Berklee School of Music in Boston (USA), or all three were studying. Sharing the same musical tastes, they quickly decided to form a band. After six months and a few thousand copies of their first demo, their first singer, Chris Collins, decided to leave them. The group, then calling Majesty, then hired a denomer Charlie Domini. Together, they record their first album, When Dream and Day Unite; on this occasion, noting that a Las Vegas band is already called Majesty, the musicians decide to change their name and, under the advice of Portnoy, choose Dream Theater. Not being really satisfied with their line-up, they decided to separate from Domini and hired a certain James LaBrie, a Canadian singer with impressive vocal prowess, to replace him. The band will sign on ATCO Records and record its second album, which will later be considered by many as their masterpiece: Images and Words (1992). The album, worn by the unmistakable single Pull me under , is an unexpected success. Composed of musicians of various tastes, the band mixes many influences and evolves in a new style: progressive metal. A true pioneer of style, Dream Theater will reach a wide audience in search of new sounds. Portnoy and Petrucci quickly took the ascendant on the rest of the band, controlling its image and artistic direction, and began to produce their albums themselves. After recording their next album, Awake (1994), keyboardist Kevin Moore suddenly left them. The group wants to hire a man named Jordan Rudess, but his schedule makes him elusive. In his place, the choice was then about Derek Sherinian. It was only in 1999, being finally available, that Rudess would join Dream Theater (to the detriment of Sherinian, dismissed). The continuation of the course is almost punctuated with success, with the EP A change of Seasons (1995) and the albums Falling into Infinity (1997), Scenes from a memory (1999), Six degrees of inner turbulence (2002), Train of thought (2003) and, finally, Octavarium (2005). The band gives birth to every album of ambitious ideas and concepts, offering dense, varied and powerful music, pleasant to both metalheads and musicians in search of virtuosity. The musicians push all the limits of their technique beyond excellence; their stage reputation is incredible, as evidenced by the many live albums they have made (4 live albums for 8 studio albums). Today, Dream Theater lost nothing of its superb. In a scene saturated by the arrival of countless new bands, the band in Portnoy managed to retain all the power and originality of its music, thanks to the so particular sound that is their own, and confirmed their status as true references of progressive metal. To quote Portnoy: our problem is not to find new ideas; Is it to sort out all those that we have?
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