Wow. I don’t really keep up with the band, but did not see this coming

Excellent news

LFG

My Dream Theater phase pretty much ended with MP's departure. However, cannot say I am not stocked to see what comes next. Even with Mangini's incredible talent and 5 albums later, I always felt the band lacked something after MP left.

Awesome news, but feel bad for Mike (Mangini). Great drummer. Having him unceremoniously replaced like that reminds me of when RHCP just instantly ejected Josh when John wanted to come back

PORTNOY STANS ASSEMBLE

"Awesome news, but feel bad for Mike (Mangini). Great drummer. Having him unceremoniously replaced like that reminds me of when RHCP just instantly ejected Josh when John wanted to come back"

yeah tho i think mangini had to have seen this coming to some extent. especially with portnoy playing on petrucci's solo album and then lte reuniting. hell, i saw DT in philly this year and portnoy was in the crowd. it almost seems obvious this was gonna happen in hindsight

Not something I was expecting in the least. Mangini is an amazing drummer and contributed to some of my favorite DT songs to date but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't excited to see what Portnoy and the boys will cook up next.

Who gives a shit this band has always sucked ahrd.

>hell, i saw DT in philly this year and portnoy was in the crowd.

Mike in the background at the DT show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yuAK8gFN3g

Great news, interesting to see what they come up with

Holy shit I did not see this coming. Never expected them to actually replace Mangini. Get's me pretty excited for the live shows at least.

I legitimately thought this would never happen.

“I legitimately thought this would never happen.” (2)
Seriously, even with MP’s recent camaraderie and collaborations with other DT members, I don’t think anyone could have seriously predicted this to happen.
Moreso than Portnoy’s drumming, at the very least I hope this marks the return of a more organic sound and creative risks for the band. I’ll now be spending the next week or so equally baffled and excited

don't really listen to this band too much these days, and while Mangini is obviously an incredible drummer and worked well with DT, to me it always felt like there was something inscrutable that was missing.
hearing Portnoy drum on Petrucci's latest solo album made me understand. they just have some magic chemistry or bond there that is impossible to replicate.

Wow, I never figured we'd see the day. It makes me excited to hear a new DT album for the first time in a while. Only thing they need to do now is replace Labrie and we'll be good to go.

This post is so cheesy good lord this band blowz so ahrd.

"Dream Theater back to Mike Portnoy" is the correct headline...

Exciting news!!!

"don't really listen to this band too much these days, and while Mangini is obviously an incredible drummer and worked well with DT, to me it always felt like there was something inscrutable that was missing.
hearing Portnoy drum on Petrucci's latest solo album made me understand. they just have some magic chemistry or bond there that is impossible to replicate."

Completely agree with all of this

Mike Porntoy

I can only repeat what others said: Mangini is an incredible drummer and some of the stuff he made with DT are a pleasant listen, but they always kidna lacked that special spark that they had with Porntoy. Granted I don't know if DT can still twist and turn their signature style in a way that would feel fresh, but I'm still stocked what they can do in a new album.

It was a somewhat plausible outcome since Petrucci and Portnoy had already started playing together again

Band never had a spark agreed Chaotic.

Mike Portnoy gives me big Jerry Garcia vibes aesthetically

I had to check the date after seeing this news post in case today's April 1st

oh thank god

same tho, also checked to make sure their facebook page wasn't some sponsored metal meme page or something lol because the pic that came with the update looks like it was editted by someone who just discovered MS paint https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=882804879878046&set=a.268057114686162

Yea, I was expecting this to be a hoax at first.
I wonder how their material will sound with Portnoy back. James' voice is still gonna suck, but maybe well get some juicy Portnoy growls again :D

whoa crazy

Mike Shitnoy

Checked the date several times. Mangini is so likeable that I feel mixed about his departure, but it is exciting to see what they might come up with next.

Soldier on, Hawks, maybe someone will take the bait. Was one of my favourite bands till mid nineties.

I don't think it's bait. There is joy in dumb in shitposting

the creative juices are low in the shitposting world today it seems

Yeah no bait to be taken. Just shit posting a shit band. M///

SomeCallMeShit

LMAOOOOOOOO

leveled

Where do I start with this band?

Nowhere.

Start by asking the one key question: Do I really have to?

you don't

Happy for Mike.

Images and Words. If that's too bright sounding, Awake. If you need more wank, Scenes From A Memory. These are the classics

This is awesome

Band has no classics or even any remotely decent albums agreed Kalk!

Mmmm such a good band gimme more DT

bruh what a shitty way to treat Mangini
This is in no way going to help Dream Theater - their biggest issue for years has bee LaBrie's awful awful voice

"Mmmm such a good band gimme more DT"

Mods plz ban we can't have these people openly flaunting their god awful taste.

"This is in no way going to help Dream Theater - their biggest issue for years has bee LaBrie's awful awful voice"

hmm idk since portnoy left i feel like their songwriting dipped pretty dramatically and their music took a kind of mechanical turn. production also fell off a cliff for the most part. portnoy was supposedly a big contributor to both those things when he was a member.

labrie's vocals are fine on the newer studio albums. its when he tries to sing the old stuff live he sounds awful really.

I kind of checked out of Dream Theater around after Portnoy left. Not because their material after that was lackluster or anything, it was just timing in life and I was checking out other bands/genres/etc. I'll definitely check out whatever new material they have planned now though, but to be fair, I'll also check out the stuff I missed the past 10ish years to see if anything hooks me. "Scenes from a Memory" is easily one of my favorite albums ever.

He left?

to join avenged sevenfold yes... or so he thought

This is in no way going to help Dream Theater - their biggest issue for years has bee LaBrie's awful awful voice [2]

We need more of those nasty Portnoy growls

yeah throw Tom from Evergrey in the band and I'll listen to their next album

Hopefully this leads to some better material

Mike Shitnoy got me

damn was actually rewatching those audition vids they did years for all the different drummers and getting all nostalgic, legit never thought this would happen so wow

Mike Shitnoy [2]

took them long enough, they've been on good terms with Portnoy for years...

to join avenged sevenfold yes... or so he thought

And the album he did over there was dope.

Tundra has been jerking off 7 times a day for the past decade just hoping for this.

These guys were boring as fuck with Mike Mangini. He might be a good drummer, but his playing is so damn bland. He's the Shawn Drover of Prog.

Mike Gaypornoy sure knows how to drum but no drummer is enough to make these guys not boring. Cmon now, the main man is named after a mediocre cheese. Can't say they didn't warn you.

LaBrie as main man? Idk, Petrucci and Rudess and Portnoy have bigger egos, even though LaBrie isn't exactly non pretentious

LaBrie looks like a biker dad but sounds like fucking brett manning when he sings

LaBrie is the weakest link, no doubt. They should fire him and get Ray Alder now that he doesn't have a main band.

"LaBrie looks like a biker dad but sounds like fucking brett manning when he sings"
or Richard Simmons lmao

Quit it with all the Labrie hate boys…..we wouldn’t have DT any other way

back when I was 15 and only knew like 3 other bands I was heartbroken by the news of Mike leaving DT, so this is kinda cool to see

It was wild how he left for A7X and the they kicked him out.

Tell me these guys aren’t wife-swapping swingers. 100% that’s how this arrangement was hashed out.

I wouldn’t bet against that actually

I wonder if they swapped James Labrie with Lebron James would anyone notice

haha probably not hahahahaheheeuhuhuheheuehehrrrǑ̧̨̢̦̭̝̱̖̙̥̉͋̈͆̓̄̿̎͘ǫ͎̜̞͉̮͈̰̣̀̀̈̈́̓̍̚̕̚͠ͅp̬͓͈͉̝͍̗̩̲̏̅̔̿̄͂̇̊̅͠ͅș͎̻͓̝̤̞̰̩̒̈́̈́̄͐͋̽͊͛͠ͅ
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Mentropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Menmory

Wifeswapolis part 2: scenes from the car key lucky dip

Cajunopolis Part 1: Scenes of gumbo

wait no he's canadian damn

Hawks keep going you’re gonna make me like the band more 😩

Holy god damn! Did not see this news coming at all!

Ketsunopolis Pt 13: Scenes from some shitty JPop

Hawks needs to get a life lol.

Dream Theater stopped being relevant sometime in the mid aughts, so this news is merely a bleep disrupting progressive metal's radio silence.

YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES!!!

@Voivod: They've definitely lost some of their flair since losing Portnoy, but within the realm of traditional prog, I'd say they're as relevant as ever... especially as the number of quality representatives continues to dwindle.

^^I don't know, to my ears, thy are going through the motions for some time now… And yeah, they are household name for traditional progressive rock/metal, but their 1992-2000 output remains unmatched by their newer albums.

...but their 1992-2000 output remains unmatched by their newer albums.--
No doubt. Kevin Moore kept them grounded, and if they had let his Chroma Key / OSI influences shine through, I think they could have been on another level. Instead they became Liquid Tension Experiment with a vocalist (not that those albums were bad in the beginning).

-- Instead they became Liquid Tension Experiment with a vocalist

This. Jams for the sake of jams.

Exactly, although I am a fan of Metropolis 2 and Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. After that, they kind of lost their way.

Edit: I'm talking shit about the Mangini albums (here or one of the DT threads) but I forgot about Distance Over Time. That one was actually good.

^^I like Train of Thought too, but with Octavarium and its successors, something just wasn't the "same", that's totally subjective though.

Great news. I've huge expectations about that. Portnoy always was one of my favourite drummers and I also always saw him as a great person and a great prog fan and musician.

"Hawks needs to get a life lol."

Awwwwww are you upset cause you were jerking off to Mike Shitnoy's pic at the exact moment you saw my comments and it got you in your feelings????

I love Dream Theater, but some of these comments are great. Mike Shitnoy lol

Is Men Theater still Men Theater without Mengini?

You can't spell men without mengini

You can't spell Dream Theater without shit.

U can’t spell Hawks without calling something shit

I will listen to this and hate it based on nostalgia alone

I wonder if they ever clowned Mike and his last name.

Mike's got a Mangina

Mike Mangina vs. Mike Shitnoy


WHO COMES OUT ON TOP? FIND OUT THIS WEEK ON SMACKDOWN!

"Awesome news, but feel bad for Mike (Mangini). Great drummer. Having him unceremoniously replaced like that reminds me of when RHCP just instantly ejected Josh when John wanted to come back"

Yeah...this isn't like that at all. Petrucci said no to Portnoy for a literal decade in order to do right by Mangini, and severely damaged his relationship with Portnoy in the process. I'm sure Mangini isn't over the moon about this, but it's not like he got blindsided or stabbed in the back.

I dunno man, it seems like Portnoy was the influence responsible for a lot of what I didn't enjoy about the period from Six Degrees to Black Clouds. Not that I dislike Portnoy at all (I've met him and he's super friendly and seems to actually love his fans) but they were growing stale, so ADTOE and S/T felt like breaths of fresh air to me. Now that they've once again grown stale, I'm hoping that he brings some energy back to the proceedings, but I do prefer their current sound to the 2000s sound so I hope they don't try to pick up where they left off when he left. I guess we'll see.

Might be interesting to see what Mike does with Mike's parts in live videos. A shame we have to suffer through LaBrie though

Mike Shitnoy

Dream Shitter

James LaShit

Shit Theater

^ wonderful name for a bathroom tbqh

This is both legitimately very surprising while also being the most inconsequential news all year.

"James LaShit"

Don't forget John Shitrucci and Jordan Shitess

All the shitty members of Dream Shitter!!!

My fav Dream Shitter song has to be One Last Shit.

A Shit Turn of Events

I would be more excited if they got rid of LaBrie and his middle-age crisis, but I guess having Portnoy back is cool

"My fav Dream Shitter song has to be One Last Shit."

One laaast shiiiiiiiiiiit
we'll flush waaaaaaaste todaaaay

LMAOOOOOOOO

Last 20 comments are gold, lmao XD

Fantastic thread yeah.

came here for mike shartnoy

Shitnoy***

My fav Dream Shitter song has to be One Last Shit [2]

ONE LAST TIME 'ROUND THE OLE SHITTER FOR MIKE SHITNOY AND THE BOYS FROM DREAM SHITTER

NOW PERFORMING THEIR (S)HIT SONG, THE AMAZING ONE LAST SHIT

DT ranked

1. Darkthrone
2. Dark Tranquility
...
X.Dream Theater

Devin Townsend too

I knew I was forgetting something

Untethered angel
Shitting into darkness
Don't be afraid of letting go
Giving up your bowels won't set you free

ranking Devin Townsend over Dream Theater is like saying you grew out of B-grade space documentaries only to relapse into Nickelodeon

also missing Dios Trio, Dirty Three, Daisuke Tobari and Deep Turtle (all of which > Darkthrone)

I hope they make a full studio version of Big Chungus on the next album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJXxTlKi0z4

I DON'T EVEN EAT CHEESE BURGERS, I'M VEGEMATERIAN

James LaShit

was waiting for this one honestly

"ranking Devin Townsend over Dream Theater is like saying you grew out of B-grade space documentaries only to relapse into Nickelodeon"

Nickelodeon is entertaining, b grade space documentaries are just bad

"James LaShit

was waiting for this one honestly"

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I was honestly surprised when I first watched a video of dream theater live like a month or two ago and first saw what Labrie looked like. I fully expected to see Brett Manning with that kind of voice, not even kidding. Meanwhile, gruff and tuff biker dad. Probably haven't seen a bigger dissonance between appearance and voice in my entire life

…And the adults left the convo on read for Mike Shitnoy…

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