Score: XOX - 20th Anniversary World Tour Live with the Octavarium Orchestra

Performer: Dream Theater
Engineer: David Hewitt
Producer: John Petrucci; Mike Portnoy; Mike Portnoy; John Petrucci
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Dream Theater: Jordan Rudes (lap steel guitar); John Myung (bass instrument); James LaBrie, John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy . Personnel: John Petrucci (vocals, guitar); Mike Portnoy (vocals, drums); James LaBrie (vocals); Jordan Rudess (lap steel guitar, keyboards); Karen Karlsrud, Abe Appleman, Elena Barere, Joyce Hammann, Carol Pool, Belinda Whitney, Avril Brown, Katherine LiVolsi Stern, Ann Leathers, Jan Mullen, Yuri Vodovoz (violin); Crystal Garner, Judy Witmer, Vince Lionti, Adrian Benjamin, Jonathan Dinklage (viola); David Heiss, Richard Locker, Eugene J. Moye, Caryl Paisner (cello); Pamela Sklar (flute); Ole Mathisen (clarinet); Jeff Kievit, Jim Hynes (trumpet); Larry Di Bello, Daniel Culpepper, Bob Carlisle (French horn); George Flynn (bass trombone); Gordon Gottlieb (percussion). Audio Mixer: Michael Brauer. Recording information: Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY (04/01/2006). Photographer: Todd Kaplan. Arranger: Jamshied Sharifi. Sidestepping the glam and thrash obsessions of their peers, Dream Theater updates Rush's blueprint with a modern texture. The progressive metal touchstones are all here: changing time signatures, dizzyingly complicated tablature, tonsil-snapping lead vocals, lyrical bombast, and a healthy sense of self-importance. John Petrucci and Co. deftly combine all of these elements on SCORE: 20th ANNIVERSARY WORLD TOUR LIVE WITH THE OCTAVARIUM ORCHESTRA, their fourth (!) live record since 2001. While SCORE might not be the best start for neophytes, the three-disc opus will sate the appetites of serious devotees.

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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