Best Dream Theater

Dream Theater’s *Images and Words* is a pivotal progressive metal album released in 1992. Featuring vocalist James LaBrie for the first time, it showcases the band's exceptional technical skill and complex arrangements. The track "Pull Me Under" achieved significant commercial success, reaching numb...

Dream Theater's 1994 third studio album Awake adopted a darker, heavier tone and marked keyboardist Kevin Moore's final recording with the band before his departure.

Dream Theater's 2005 eighth studio album is anchored by the 24-minute title track, with musical and lyrical motifs linking all songs into a numerically themed cycle.

Dream Theater's 2021 fifteenth studio album closes with its 20-minute title track and was recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic while the band was isolated together.

Dream Theater's 2011 eleventh studio album was the first recorded with replacement drummer Mike Mangini, who won an internationally televised audition process to join the band.

Dream Theater's 2003 seventh studio album Train of Thought took a deliberately heavier, thrash-influenced direction and is the only main-catalog album with no ballads.

Dream Theater's 2019 fourteenth studio album Distance Over Time was recorded at a rented house in upstate New York to encourage a collaborative, live-in-the-studio atmosphere.

Dream Theater's 2007 ninth studio album features the two-part epic "In the Presence of Enemies," split across the album's opening and closing tracks to frame the record.

Dream Theater's 2009 tenth studio album was the last to feature co-founding drummer Mike Portnoy, who announced his departure from the band the following year.

Dream Theater's 2013 self-titled twelfth studio album was the first in which drummer Mike Mangini participated fully in the compositional process alongside the other members.

Dream Theater's 2016 double concept album The Astonishing spans two discs and is set in a dystopian future America where government has banned live musical performance.