“Everything I’m doing is purposely very different. If I’d wanted to keep doing what Dream Theater do, I’d still be in Dream Theater”: How Mike Portnoy reinvented himself after the trauma of leaving two massive bands

Mike Portnoy.

In 2011 – a year after his traumatic departures from Dream Theater and Avenged Sevenfold – Mike Portnoy returned with a new outlook on life, determined to explore new musical directions. He told Prog about just some of his plans for the near future.

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