From 5:51 to 6:07 of the song ‘In The Name Of God,’ there is a hidden message, in Morse code.

The Battle Hymn of the Republic, written by Julia Ward Howe in 1861, is used in ‘In The Name Of God’.

John Purdell (who produced Awake) sang the backup vocals on ‘The Silent Man’.

Jay Beckenstein of the band Spyro Gyra played saxophone on ‘Another Day’.

All past and current members of Dream Theater have been involved in either a solo project, another band, a side project, or some form of tribute album.

Aside from Images & Words, which is being played in it’s entirety on the current tour, the band has also performed When Dream And Day Unite, Octavarium, Scenes From A Memory, and The Astonishing — in their entirety — in the album’s exact running order.

James LaBrie was one of the candidates to replace Bruce Dickinson when Bruce left Iron Maiden in 1993.

Their 1992 single ‘Pull Me Under’ from the album Images And Words was released as a single and a video. It received substantial airplay on MTV, and reached #10 on the Billboard rock charts.

Core members John Petrucci, John Myung, and Mike Portnoy met as students at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. The band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty, but changed its name to Dream Theater in 1988.

Falling into Infinity was supposed to have been a double album, but the record label wanted it to be less proggy and more radio-friendly. Also, a shorter version of the song “Metropolis Part 2”, before it was turned into an album, was going to appear on the second disc.