record_label the road home 
The Road Home is a cover ___MASK35___ by Jordan Rudess . It was released on September 12 , 2007 . Rudess ' s arrangements of these classic prog tracks include many sections that were not in the original songs , especially solos . Track 5 is the only original piece . Jordan Rudess ( born Jordan Charles Rudes ; November 4 , 1956 ) is an American keyboardist and composer best known as a member of the progressive metal / rock band Dream Theater and the progressive rock supergroup Liquid Tension Experiment . Progressive metal ( sometimes known as prog metal or technical metal ) is a fusion genre melding heavy metal and progressive rock which combines the ___MASK29___ " aggression " and amplified guitar - driven sound of the former with the more experimental , cerebral or " pseudo - classical " compositions of the latter . Whilst the genre emerged towards the late - 1980s , it was not until the 1990s that progressive metal achieved commercial success . Dream Theater , Queensrÿche , Tool , Symphony X and Fates Warning are a few examples of progressive metal bands who achieved commercial success ; additionally , many other thrash and death metal bands started to incorporate elements of progressive music in their work . Progressive metal ' s popularity started to decline towards the end of the 1990s , but it still remains a largely diffused underground genre with a committed fan base . Liquid Tension Experiment ( LTE ) was an instrumental progressive metal band founded by Mike Portnoy , then Dream Theater ' s drummer , in 1997 . The band has released two albums through ___MASK20___ . A third album , with the absence of John Petrucci was released in 2007 under the name " Liquid Trio Experiment ". A live album with the absence of Jordan Rudess ( mostly ) was released in 2009 under the name " Liquid Trio Experiment 2 ". Three live albums and two videos were released in 2009 by the complete band .