Originally published in Music Radar.com · February 2023
Bjorn Gelotte (In Flames) comments
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Dream Theater – Images And Words (1992)
“It was a friend who was not into metal at all who showed me this. I think his older brother had the album or something, and when I heard the Metropolis that is on Images And Words? I had never heard anything like it.
“I thought the musicianship was fake. Nobody plays like this. It’s not possible! But then I’ve seen them live and I have seen them play it and it is ridiculous, still, how good they are.
“I don’t even know where to begin. Everything on it is very tasty. It is nerdy to listen to but what people say, ‘You have to be a musician to appreciate it,’ is not true, because there are hooks, and it’s big, and there is so much to dig into. You can’t have it in the background. You have to be focused on it, sort of like where I want to wrap-up the albums, with Rush…”