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Timeline Updates[edit]

Why doesn't the timeline take into account the pre-1988 members? Also, what about Nightmare Cinema? And what about how the band changed its name? What if we changed the timeline to this:

Let me know what you think...

Lead excessive[edit]

None of this content belongs in lead per WP:LEAD it is body content and can be summarized in lead.

The band's highest-selling album is the gold-selling Images and Words (1992), which reached No. 61 on the Billboard 200 chart.[5] Both the 1994 release Awake and their 2002 release Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence also entered the charts at No. 32 and No. 46 respectively and received mostly positive reviews. Metropolis Pt. 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.[6] It is ranked as the 15th Greatest Concept Album (as of March 2003) by Classic Rock Magazine.[7]

The band's eleventh studio album, A Dramatic Turn of Events, was released on September 13, 2011. On November 30, 2011, the album's lead single, "On the Backs of Angels", was nominated for a Grammy Award in the "Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance" category, marking the band's first ever Grammy nomination.[8] Dream Theater's self-titled twelfth studio album was released on September 23, 2013 and earned their second Grammy Award nomination, this time for "Best Metal Performance", for the album's first single, "The Enemy Inside".[9]

Did a fan write this: The band is well known for the technical proficiency of its instrumentalists, who have won many awards from music instruction magazines.