Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
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Cover art by Dave McKean
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| Studio album by Dream Theater | ||||
| Released | October 26, 1999 | |||
| Recorded | 1999 | |||
| Studio | BearTracks Studios in Suffern, New York | |||
| Genre | Progressive metal,progressive rock | |||
| Length | 77:06 | |||
| Label | Elektra | |||
| Producer | Mike Portnoy, John Petrucci | |||
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| Singles from Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | ||||
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| Rock Hard (de) |  |
Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory is the fifth studio album and first concept album by American progressive metal/progressive rock band Dream Theater, released on October 26, 1999 through Elektra Records. It was recorded at BearTracks Studios in New York City, where the band had previously recorded their second studio album Images and Words (1992) and the EP A Change of Seasons (1995).
The album is the sequel to "Metropolis—Part I: "The Miracle and the Sleeper"", a song previously featured on the band's 1992 album Images and Words. It was also the first album to feature Jordan Rudess on keyboards, and the last for which John Myung wrote lyrics until A Dramatic Turn of Events (2011).
In late July 2012, Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory was voted as the number one all-time progressive rock album in a poll conducted by Rolling Stone, beating Rush's 2112 and Close to the Edge by Yes, after posting a link to the poll on their website.
Fans had previously requested the band to make the sequel to the first part of the song "Metropolis—Part I" from Images and Words, but they had not yet been able, nor had they originally intended one to be made. With the sessions for Falling Into Infinity (1997), the band recorded a 21-minute instrumental demo of "Metropolis Pt. 2" (which was later released by Mike Portnoy via his Ytsejam Records site along with the other Falling Into Infinity demos), but this did not make it onto that album. The demo, which included several musical citations from "Metropolis—Part I" and featured many motifs that would later appear on Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory (most notably the majority of "Overture 1928" and "Strange Deja Vu" and parts of "The Dance of Eternity" and "One Last Time"), was however significantly different from the finished album version in most part.
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