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“Raise The Knife” was the first song written by the band in the Falling Into Infinity sessions, but the song never made it onto an official release until 2006’s live release “Score”, although it was released on t […]

The band originally offered Jordan Rudess the keyboardist position in the band, which he politely declined. The band then hired Derek Sherinian, who later became a full band member after a few months of touring with the band.

The popularity of “Pull Me Under” was basically an overnight success and vaulted the band into a very lengthy world tour that was very successful. “Pull Me Under” was very successful on hard rock/metal radio and […]

“A Change of Seasons” was originally planned to be released on “Images and Words”. The track was cut on the strict understanding that the label would allow them to record and release it at a later date. The song […]

The band had talks with another label called Atco Records (now EastWest), a division of Elektra Records, before being able to get out of the Mechanic Records deal. There was an understanding that if the band was […]

While the band searched for a vocalist after firing Dominici, the band wrote most of the music that would end up on ‘Images and Words’ instrumentally from 1989 to 1992, when the album was released.

Dream Theater first approached John Arch (of Fates Warning fame – a band he’d recently quit). In fact, Arch himself thinks he might have influenced Dream Theater into firing Dominici by making remarks backstage […]

Here are some of my favorite ones:
“Watching mortality, I mow the lawn” (Wanting mortality, i’m all alone) – The Killing Hand

“Death is the first dancing turtle” (Death is the first dance eternal) – Metropolis […]

Terry Brown produced Scenes From a Memory, and also provided the voice for the hypnotherapist. But he asked for royalties for live use of his voice, which was not something Dream Theater expected at all. As Mike […]

No, not technically… since this doesn’t include JR’s or JLB’s wives. But the Mike Portnoy, John Petrucci and John Myung are all married to women who used to be in the same band together.

Meanstreak were an […]