Journey is a rock music group.
Escape ( stylized as E5C4P3 on the album cover ) is the seventh studio album by American rock band Journey , released in 1981 . Frontiers is the eighth studio album by the American Rock band Journey , released in February 1983 on the Columbia Records label . Journey is an American rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1973 , composed of former members of Santana and Frumious Bandersnatch . Its parent studio album , Escape , the band 's eighth and most successful , reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and yielded another of their most popular singles , `` Open Arms '' . Progressive rock ( shortened as prog ; sometimes called art rock , classical rock or symphonic rock ) is a broad subgenre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s .