Siamese Dream is the second studio album by American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins, released on July 27, 1993 on Virgin Records. The album fused diverse influences such as shoegazing, dream pop, and heavy metal, and has been described as "closer to progressive rock than to punk or grunge."
Despite recording sessions fraught with difficulties and tensions, Siamese Dreamdebuted at number ten on the Billboardcharts, and eventually sold over four million copies in the US, and over six million worldwide, cementing the Smashing Pumpkins as an important group in alternative rock music.