DREAM THEATER — Images and Words (review)

DREAM THEATER — Images and Words album cover Album · 1992 · Progressive Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
Stephen
In search of a replacement for Charlie Dominici, Dream Theater held an audition and screened over 200 participants while among them is the Canadian singer, James LaBrie, who's still with Winter Rose, a glam band also from his hometown. Finally, LaBrie got his position and had been their lead singer ever since, and this is their most commercially succesful album that featured LaBrie for the very first time.

"Pull Me Under", one of the heavy tracks of the album received a decent rotation on MTV and successfully pulled up their name from the underground. "Another Day", a classy beautiful radio ballad with the gorgeous soprano saxophone is an astonishing hit and introduced their name to an even larger audiences but the masterpiece and my favourite of all time is the colossal piece of "Metropolis Part I" epic, from the mysterious start, to LaBrie's hypnotizing high-pitch screamer, and to the final passage of extra-ordinary instrumental jam. "Surrounded" and "Wait For Sleep" are enchantingly good keyboard-driven tracks, and "Learning To Live" could be a painful too-long track for some but it's still accessible and a cleverly-made for casual fans.

To sum up, "Images And Words" is like a grand entrance for metal-fans into prog and vice versa. If you even don't like those two genres at all, they still had a lot of ear-friendly tracks to listen. To me, this is their second best release after "Scenes From A Memory" and a must-buy for the "Metropolis" track itself.
Share this review
more

Review Comments

Post a public comment below | Send private message to the reviewer
Please login to post a shout
No shouts posted yet. Be the first member to do so above!

Review Index

Member Zone

Username:
Password:
Stay signed in

Metal Subgenres

Artists Alpha-index

MMA TOP 5 Metal ALBUMS

Rating by members, ranked by custom algorithm
Albums with 30 ratings and more
Master of Puppets Thrash Metal
METALLICA
Buy this album from our partners
Paranoid Heavy Metal
BLACK SABBATH
Buy this album from our partners
Moving Pictures Hard Rock
RUSH
Buy this album from our partners
Powerslave NWoBHM
IRON MAIDEN
Buy this album from our partners
Rising Heavy Metal
RAINBOW
Buy this album from our partners

New Metal Artists

New Metal Releases

A Sonication Technical Death Metal
OBSCURA
Buy this album from MMA partners
Hin helga kvöl Atmospheric Sludge Metal
SÓLSTAFIR
Buy this album from MMA partners
The Cycles of Suffering Black Metal
BURIAL OATH
Buy this album from MMA partners
The Suns of Perdition - Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion Black Metal
PANZERFAUST
Buy this album from MMA partners
Facilis Descensus Averno Death Metal
SAEVUS FINIS
Buy this album from MMA partners
More new releases

New Metal Online Videos

DAWN OF REVENGE - Sanctuary [official music video]
DAWN OF REVENGE
Bosh66· 6 days ago
DAWN OF REVENGE - Farewell [official music video]
DAWN OF REVENGE
Bosh66· 6 days ago
DAWN OF REVENGE - Curtain of Death - [official music video]
DAWN OF REVENGE
Bosh66· 6 days ago
DAWN OF REVENGE - Vengeance [official music video]
DAWN OF REVENGE
Bosh66· 6 days ago
DAWN OF REVENGE - I Need You [official music video]
DAWN OF REVENGE
Bosh66· 6 days ago
More videos

New MMA Metal Forum Topics

More in the forums

New Site interactions

More...

Latest Metal News

members-submitted

More in the forums

Social Media

Follow us
Follow us on Twitter Become a Facebook fan RSS Feed