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Headbangers’ Brawl 4/29: What Do We Do Now That We Know Who Dream Theater’s New Drummer Is?

by Metal Insider | Apr 29, 2011 | Headbangers Brawl

Headbanger’s Brawl is a weekly column where Metal Insider’s Bram and Zach take a moment to debate and analyze two opposing sides of a topical issue occurring in the world of metal and/or the music industry. After months of patience, weeks of rumors and gossip, and a...

Mike Mangini Named Dream Theater’s New Drummer

by Bram Teitelman | Apr 29, 2011 | Metal Musical Chairs

While millions of people around the world watched the royal wedding today, countless music fans huddled around their computers to find out who the ascendant to another throne would be – Dream Theater’s new drummer. It’s been a week of speculation,...

Well We Now Know Who Is NOT The New Dream Theater Drummer

by Zach Shaw | Apr 22, 2011 | What A Progressive Tease

If you watched Dream Theater’s cock tease trailer yesterday, then you would have noticed that drummer Marco Minnemann was among the seven drummers spotted in it. While he was one of the early rumored names to be Mike Portnoy’s replacement, Blabbermouth revealed that...

It’s Official: Dream Theater Are Cock Teases

by Zach Shaw | Apr 21, 2011 | What A Progressive Tease

This past Monday, Dream Theater informed fans to go their Facebook fan page on Thursday morning to find out how they could get an “exclusive look” into the band’s process of replacing drummer Mike Portnoy. Well, fans who went to the fan page at 11 am found…a trailer....

Mike Mangini Rumored To Be Dream Theater’s New Drummer

by Zach Shaw | Mar 29, 2011 | Prog Metal Musical Chairs

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31c-FL0ZlZ0[/youtube] There’s been so much drama and rumors surrounding Dream Theater’s vacant seat behind the drum kit that fans just want to know who will be Mike Portnoy’s replacement already. Unfortunately, though Dream...
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