
2: Scenes from a Memory was ranked number 95 on the October 2006 issue of Guitar World magazine's list of The greatest 100 guitar albums of all time. 46 respectively and received mostly positive reviews. Both the 1994 release Awake and their 2002 release Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence also entered the charts at No. The band's highest-selling album is the gold-selling Images and Words (1992), which reached No. The band was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2010. John Myung was voted the greatest bassist of all time in a poll conducted by MusicRadar in August through September 2010. His replacement Mike Mangini has also previously set 5 WFD records.

Former drummer Mike Portnoy has won 26 awards from Modern Drummer magazine and is also the second youngest person (at the age of 37) to be inducted into the Rock Drummer Hall of Fame. Jordan Rudess is considered to be one of the greatest keyboard players of all time by many publications like MusicRadar. He was also named as one of the "Top 10 Fastest Shredders of All Time" by GuitarOne magazine. 2 best metal guitarist by Joel McIver in his book The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists. Guitarist John Petrucci has been named as the third player on the G3 tour six times, more than any invited players. The band is well known for the technical proficiency of its instrumentalists, who have won many awards from music instruction magazines. Mike Mangini was announced as the new permanent drummer on April 29, 2011. In October 2010, the band held auditions for a drummer to replace Portnoy. Though a number of lineup changes followed, the three original members remained together along with James LaBrie and Jordan Rudess until Septemwhen Portnoy left the band. They subsequently dropped out of their studies to further concentrate on the band that would ultimately become Dream Theater.

Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Petrucci, John Myung, and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Massachusetts.
