Dream Theater put the ‘elation’ into ‘elevation’
IT’S FAINTLY RIDICULOUS to recall that when Mike Portnoy quit Dream Theater in 2010, some predicted evaporating fortunes for the drummer, writer and producer and the band he had co-founded a quarter century earlier. However, both sides have prospered, Portnoy playing with a wide variety of groups and Dream Theater further enhancing their reputation as the most important progressive metal band on the planet – even picking up a couple of Grammys.