LABEL: Atlantic
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 01/03/2025
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 1994
VARIANT: 140 Gram, Clear Vinyl2LP

Following 1992 breakthrough Images and Words, Awake found the Boston prog-fusionists leaning even further into their fancifully complex, sometimes balladic approach. Guitar icon John Petrucci also brought a 7-string into the studio for the first time, which added a darker and edgier style of riffing to Caught in a Web and lead single Lie. The transitional release was Dream Theaters last with founding keyboardist Kevin Moore, whose lyrics to 6:00 reflect the personal and creative distancing between he and his soon-to-be former bandmates. A revelatory Dream Theater release, available on crystal-clear double LP.