Mike Portnoy Congratulates Dream Theater on Grammy Win

On the 2022 Grammy Awards, Dream Theater took residence the win for Finest Metallic Efficiency for “The Alien,” off final 12 months’s A View From the High of the World album. The group’s former drummer, Mike Portnoy, shared within the celebration and congratulated the prog metallic icons on their victory.

On Instagram, Portnoy shared a screenshot of Loudwire’s protection of the information and wrote, “Congrats to my pals…Very glad for you guys!”

Keyboardist Jordan Rudess, who joined Dream Theater in 1999, commented again, “Thanks buddy!! Thanks for hiring me a few years in the past!!!!”

Portnoy was a member of Dream Theater from its inception, first once they have been generally known as Majesty from 1985 via 1988 and, following the title change to the one we all know now, from 1988 via 2010. Whereas he has been out of the band for greater than a decade, different followers have been fast to acknowledge that the group’s Grammy victory in 2022 was a decades-long payoff and that Portnoy’s contributions to the Dream Theater legacy helped lay the groundwork that acquired the band to the place they’re now.

Public relations between Portnoy and his former Dream Theater bandmates have been particularly good in recent times, from hanging out with John Petrucci on New Yr’s Eve heading into 2018 via plentiful musical collaborations — enjoying on Petrucci‘s 2020 solo album Terminal Velocity and regrouping with Petrucci some extra, in addition to Rudess, in Liquid Stress Experiment for the band’s Liquid Stress Experiment 3 album, which got here out final 12 months and marked their first since 1999.

Once more, congratulations to Dream Theater and hats off to Mike Portnoy for retaining issues heat and pleasant. Good vibes solely!