Like a lot of people, DT got me into prog. I was starting college at the time (2014) when I began exploring their discography after hearing Panic Attack for the first time. DT were my gateway band to so many other fantastic prog bands & artists, my current top 10 favorites being Haken, Leprous, Between the Buried and Me, Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson, Thank You Scientist, Gojira, Vulkan, Caligula's Horse, David Maxim Micic, and TesseracT. My only regret is not getting into prog sooner.

I may not be as into DT's music as much as I was when I first started listening to them, but I still have a handful of their albums in my catalog that I occasionally come back to. Octavarium remains one of my all-time favorite songs too.

So op, if you like Dream Theater that much, I'm sure you've already listened to Haken, but in case you haven't, check out their 2013 album The Mountain. Their music is out of this world. They also just released a new album a couple weeks ago called Fauna and it is now my most favorite album from them. Band name is pronounced "Hay-ken."