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Likes + comments →Images and Words is an album made in 1992 by the American progressive metal band Dream Theater. It is their second album and the first to feature James Labrie as the lead vocalist, a role he would maintain up to the present day. As for the tone, Images and Words is a somber, introspective album, with a sound not unlike that of Marillion and other progressive rock groups. Of the four tenets of Dream Theater’s sound (Progressive, metal, melodic and pop) the album focuses mostly on the melodic, with ballads such as “Surrounded”, “Another Day” and “Wait for Sleep”. “Pull Me Under” and “Under a Glass Moon” focus more on the metal aspects, though the sound doesn’t come through as heavy due to the production. “Take The Time” is a unique mixture of the progressive and pop sounds with “Metropolis – Part 1” and “Learning to Live” being extremely progressive. It was the band’s breakthrough succes…
Images and Words is an album made in 1992 by the American progressive metal band Dream Theater. It is their second album and the first to feature James Labrie as the lead vocalist, a role he would maintain up to the present day. As for the tone, Images and Words is a somber, introspective album, with a sound not unlike that of Marillion and other progressive rock groups. Of the four tenets of Dream Theater’s sound (Progressive, metal, melodic and pop) the album focuses mostly on the melodic, with ballads such as “Surrounded”, “Another Day” and “Wait for Sleep”. “Pull Me Under” and “Under a Glass Moon” focus more on the metal aspects, though the sound doesn’t come through as heavy due to the production. “Take The Time” is a unique mixture of the progressive and pop sounds with “Metropolis – Part 1” and “Learning to Live” being extremely progressive. It was the band’s breakthrough succes…