The band has decided to carry on into 2011 without me...

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http://www.metalunderground.com/news/de ... wsid=63183

I'm laughing my ass off right now!

[KeithReynolds]

HAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAA!

WTF does he mean they decided to carry on without him??? He was just a hired gun.

Time to go crawling back to Dream Theater. They shouldnt let him back though!!!

[f.sciarrillo]

I look for his next announcement to be about him and DT being back together again. I agree that he should go back with them, they will never find a drummer as good as he is.

[bassist_25]

Portnoy seems to be a man without a country.

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From Blabbermouth:

AVENGED SEVENFOLD frontman M. Shadows told The Pulse Of Radio that the band was not happy about the public way in which drummer Mike Portnoy's split with his former group DREAM THEATER was played out, which may have soured Portnoy's relationship with AVENGED, ultimately causing his departure from the Orange County, California-based act. "We were actually a little more shocked," M. Shadows said. "We felt that maybe both parties could have handled it a little more internally without being so press release-happy about what had happened between them. Because we're a band that, really, when it comes to news all over web sites or this or that about bands, you know, we don't tweet much, we don't try to put ourselves out that much, and all the drama and controversy wasn't something that we wanted at all."

Basically, because Portnoy loves drama & can't keep his trap shut, he lost that gig too.

[Don Hughes]

I actually look for DT to end up doing something kinda like how it ended up with Red Hot Chili Peppers. They try a drummer for one album, then Portnoy comes back.

I still think it's going to be Rod Morgenstein with DT since he has a history with a couple of those guys.

[RobTheDrummer]

I would love to see Marco Minneman with DT, or maybe Thomas Lang. They would both be killer!!!