Dream Theater are by many considered as a band that forged the term progressive metal along with Fates Warning and traced the way for hundreds of bands. Ask 10 bands on today’s progressive metal scene about the acts that influenced them and in 99% you will get Dream Theater as one of the acts.
Prog Sphere revisited the band’s discography and we chose twenty songs that we consider the best what Dream Theater produced in almost 30 years of existence. Feel free to leave a comment with your favourite Dream Theater tracks below.
Top 20 DREAM THEATER Songs by Prog Sphere
20. Breaking All Illusions (A Dramatic Turn of Events, 2011)
Nikola Savić is a prog enthusiast, blogger and author, in addition to being the founder of Prog Sphere, Progify, ProgLyrics and the ongoing Progstravaganza compilation series.
Change Of Seasons is one of my favorites, but I’m not sure it should be number one. I would put Octavarium and Dance Of Eternity a lot higher than this poll has them. Anything from Falling Into Infinity would probably fall off of this list with each new entry, in my opinion. I would also have included Illumination Theory, Lost Not Forgotten, and Outcry on this list…
benjabreeg
July 6, 2014 at 9:22 pm
I think that The Count of Tuscany must be there, maybe in top five. But great list…
Nice list! Some interesting choices and I wouldn’t put them in that order, but those are roughly what I would’ve picked:) It’s a shame that there are not to much memorable songs in the Mangini era (except Breaking All Illusions of course).
Donald A Henney Jr
June 30, 2014 at 8:11 pm
Change Of Seasons is one of my favorites, but I’m not sure it should be number one. I would put Octavarium and Dance Of Eternity a lot higher than this poll has them. Anything from Falling Into Infinity would probably fall off of this list with each new entry, in my opinion. I would also have included Illumination Theory, Lost Not Forgotten, and Outcry on this list…
benjabreeg
July 6, 2014 at 9:22 pm
I think that The Count of Tuscany must be there, maybe in top five. But great list…
Nuranthrim
January 12, 2015 at 11:00 am
Nice list! Some interesting choices and I wouldn’t put them in that order, but those are roughly what I would’ve picked:) It’s a shame that there are not to much memorable songs in the Mangini era (except Breaking All Illusions of course).