The Studio Albums 1992-2011 collects the first 10 studio albums from Dream Theater s groundbreaking two-decade-plus career, from 1992 s RIAA gold-certified classic debut, Images & Words to 2011 s GRAMMY Award-nominated milestone, A Dramatic Turn of Events.
With total sales exceeding 10 million albums and DVDs worldwide, Dream Theater have long stood among the upper echelon of hard rock giants. Albums such as 1992 s RIAA gold-certified classic Images & Words (featuring the breakthrough top 10 single, "Pull Me Under") and 2002 s double album, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance have earned the Long Island-based band countless accolades for their visionary synthesis of melodic power and virtuosic experimentation, including being named as one of Rolling Stone s top 10 "Best Prog Rock Bands of All Time."