Personnel

• James LaBrie
  James LaBrie
  Kevin James LaBrie is a Canadian vocalist who is best known as the lead singer of the American progressive metal band Dream Theater.-Early life:...
  
   – vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• John Myung
  John Myung
  John Ro Myung is an American bassist, Chapman Stick player and a founding member of the progressive metal group Dream Theater. He is considered a virtuoso player who is widely recognized for his technical proficiency....
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , Chapman Stick
  Chapman Stick
  The Chapman Stick is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. A member of the guitar family, the Chapman Stick usually has ten or twelve individually tuned strings and has been used on music recordings to play bass lines, melody lines, chords or textures...
  
  
• John Petrucci
  John Petrucci
  John Peter Petrucci is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater. Along with his former bandmate Mike Portnoy, he has produced all Dream Theater albums since their 1999 release, Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory...
  
   – guitars, backing vocals
  Backing vocalist
  A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
  
  
• Mike Portnoy
  Mike Portnoy
  Michael Stephen "Mike" Portnoy is an American drummer primarily known as the former drummer, backing vocalist, and a co-founder of the progressive metal band Dream Theater, as well as the temporary drummer for the hard rock band Avenged Sevenfold. Known for his drumming prowess and technical...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
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  , backing vocals
• Derek Sherinian
  Derek Sherinian
  Derek Sherinian is a rock keyboardist who has toured and recorded for Alice Cooper, Billy Idol, Yngwie Malmsteen, Kiss, and Alice In Chains. He was also a member of Dream Theater and is the founder of the instrumental metal-fusion band Planet X...
  
   – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  , backing vocals

Chart performance

Billboard 200

Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

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• Falling Into Infinity - #52

UK Album Chart:

• Falling Into Infinity - #163

Billboard Mainstream Rock Singles:

• Burning My Soul - 33
• You Not Me - 40

Demo version

As the band were unhappy with the record label's influence over the original production, in 2007, Mike Portnoy released Falling Into Infinity Demos 1996-1997 through his own label, YtseJam Recordshttp://www.ytsejamrecords.com/ProductCart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=6&idproduct=26. In the liner notes Portnoy states: "these demos show our true artistic representation of these songs".

Track listing

Disc 1

1. "Raise the Knife" – 11:40
2. "Where Are You Now?" – 7:27
3. "Take Away My Pain" – 6:49
4. "You or Me" – 6:24
5. "Anna Lee" – 6:36
6. "Burning My Soul" – 8:57
7. "The Way It Used To Be" – 7:47
8. "Lines in the Sand" – 13:32

Disc 2

1. "Just Let Me Breathe" – 5:24
2. "Peruvian Skies" – 6:47
3. "Trial of Tears" – 12:54
4. "Cover My Eyes" – 3:23
5. "Hollow Years" – 6:26
6. "New Millennium" – 8:19
7. "Speak to Me" – 6:25
8. "Metropolis, Part 2 (Live Rehearsal Version)" (Bonus Track) – 21:25