Dream Comes Alive!

While the majority of the Hard Music Industry rants and raves about the Northwest grunge and its flannel shirts, Long Island boys Dream Theater have quietly rocketed to the top of both the retail and radio charts. On the strength of leadoff single ‘Pull Me Under,’ their major label debut Images And Words is halfway to gold, currently standing tall at #66 on Sound-Scan’s Top 200 and climbing (the album had a recent one day where it sold 14,000 units.) In a time where three minute singles are the norm for radio, eight minute single ‘Pull Me Under,’ is currently the #1 Most Requested track at Rock Radio (as well as being a fixture in the Top Ten Airplay at Rock Radio)!

Images And Words has finally cracked the top 10 on Foundations Metal Radio Albums Chart while the cut ‘Pull Me Under’ holds strong at #6 on our Metal Cuts Chart, along with ‘Take The Time’ debuting at a solid #22. In addition it’s the #1 in-store play record at retail.

How’s that for breaking the rules? Back from a recent well-received stint in Japan, the band is currently spreading their brand of progressive metal across the country as they headine a national club tour (they’ll be touring Europe in March). As Dream Theater prepares for a video shoot for second single ‘Take The Time’ (in mid-February), the video for ‘Pull Me Under’ is in ‘Stress’ rotation on MTV. If anybody had any apprehensions as to whether or not this band is for real, those numbers should completely erase any and all doubts. Dream Theater is taking hard music to a whole new level in the ‘90’s.