Falling Into Infinity

Performer: Dream Theater
Artist: Dug Pinnick
Engineer: Kevin Shirley
Producer: Kevin Shirley
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Dream Theater: James LaBrie (vocals); John Petrucci (guitar, background vocals); Derek Sherinian (keyboards, background vocals); John Myung (bass, Chapman stick); Mike Portnoy (drums, percussion, background vocals). Additional personnel: Doug Pinnick (vocals); The Del Fuvio Monks. Recorded at Avatar Studios, New York, New York in June & July 1997. Personnel: James LaBrie (vocals, background vocals); Doug Pinnick (vocals); John Petrucci (guitar, background vocals); Derek Sherinian (keyboards, background vocals); John Myung (bass guitar, Chapman stick); Mike Portnoy (drums, percussion, background vocals). Audio Mixer: Kevin Shirley. Recording information: Avatar Studios, New York, NY (06/1997-07/1997). Photographer: Tony May. Arrangers: Desmond Child; Dream Theater. Dream Theater's specialty is atmospheric metal, at times heavy, at times sinister, with a sharp techno edge. "New Millennium," the disc's opening cut, defines the sound: ringing guitars, a driving beat, start-stop dynamics and rolling drum crescendos. There's a bit of a Rush influence at work here, as well as ELP and even some Metallica. "Hollow Years" is a quieter track, replete with gentle acoustic guitar, soothing vocals and an inspirational theme about the lifting of old curses and the possibility for redemption. Lead singer James LaBrie has a slightly nasal, but otherwise pleasing modern pop/metal vocal attack, which he exercises with passion throughout. If you like your metal melodic and even, at times, introspective, you should enjoy a visit to this Dream Theater.

Dream Theater may not have been the very first to combine heavy metal's biting guitars with progressive rock's complex structures and virtuosic displays, but they were certainly at the vanguard of the prog-metal paradigm in the late '80s. By the '90s, they had become the definitive avatars of the genre. They were also the nexus for numerous prog supergroup offshoots, such as Transatlantic, Liquid Tension Experiment, and Explorers Club.

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