Dream Theater was one of the groups progressive metal was most foremost in the world at this time. Established by Mike Portnoy, John Petrucci and John Myung, they released eight studio albums, four recorders live and one short album (EP). Their first album, When Dream And Day Unite was recorded with Charlie Dominici as the vocalist and Kevin Moore as the player keyboards. Dominici aged far more older than the other member and wanted to play other music, so as he afterwards left the group. They afterwards looked for the replacement who was ideal while 2 years to the end met James LaBrie, the vocalist from Canada through the audition.
Together LaBrie they recorded Images And Words that threw their name to the international rank with the "Pull Me Under" hit and "Another Day". Awake was their last album with Moore that afterwards was replaced by Derek Sherinian for the Falling Into Infinity album. In the long run Sherinian was also replaced by Jordan Rudess and this formation still remains up until today. They launched the concept album of the Metropolis 2: Scenes From A Memory and the dual Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence album. During 2003 they decided to record the Train Of Thought non-concept album that really was affected by the group thrash metal like Metallica.
Their newest album that was entitled Octavarium was issued on June 7 2005 and apart from being the eighth studio album also contained eight songs.
After Dream Theater launched their Live album in commemorated 20 Dream Theater years were formed that was entitled Score that was recorded on April 1 2006 in Radio City music Hall,US. they again were ready to launch the album to their nine by carrying the label flag record just that is RoadRunner Records, they completed the Systematic Chaos album that contained 8 songs and will be launched on June 5 2007 in the US.
The Dream Theater history
Dream Theater was formed in September 1985 when guitarist John Petrucci and bassist John Myung decided to form a band in their spare time while studying at the Berklee College of Music. The pair came across drummer Mike Portnoy in one of Berklee's rehearsal rooms, where he was asked to join the band. The trio started off by covering Iron Maiden and Rush songs in the rehearsal rooms at Berklee.
Myung, Petrucci, and Portnoy settled on the name Majesty for their newly formed group. According to the The Score So Far… documentary, they were waiting in line for tickets to a Rush concert at the Berklee Performance Center while listening to the band on a boom box. Portnoy commented that the ending of the song "Bastille Day" (from the album Caress of Steel) sounded "majestic." It was then decided that Majesty would be the band's name [4].
The trio then set out to fill the remaining positions in the group. Petrucci asked his high school band-mate Kevin Moore to play keyboards. After accepting the position, another friend from home, Chris Collins, was recruited as lead vocalist after band members heard him sing a cover of "Queen of the Reich" by Queensrÿche[5] During this time, Portnoy, Petrucci and Myung's hectic schedules forced them to abandon their studies to concentrate on their music, as they did not feel they could learn more in College. Moore also left his college, SUNY Fredonia, to concentrate on the band. (Quoted from wikipedia)
