Legendary prog metallic drummer Mike Portnoy has revealed that he almost performed a one-time present with Canadian rock outfit Nickelback.

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Throughout a current look on schooling drum channel Drumeo, Portnoy – who has prior to now carried out with Dream Theater, The Vineyard Canine and Avenged Sevenfold amongst different bands – revealed that he was contacted by Nickelback to fill in on drums for a gig in 2022 after their drummer wasn’t capable of make a present.

For his look on Drumeo, Portnoy was tasked to carry out a track he had by no means heard of, which turned out to be Nickelback’s ‘Burn It To The Floor’. Offering some backstory, Portnoy stated: “Their drummer I suppose was having surgical procedure they usually requested me to play a present with them. And I stated ‘Yeah, that’d be a enjoyable gig!’”

“I used to be all set to play this gig with Nickelback – it was for a pageant – and the pageant ended up getting canceled. However I used to be this near taking part in a gig with Nickelback.”

Portnoy then added that he had acquired the setlist for the gig, however that ‘Burn It To The Floor’ wasn’t on it, and that he had by no means heard a lot of the songs on the supposed present’s checklist: “Chad [Kroeger] despatched me the set checklist. My daughter and my spouse have been like ‘You’re gonna know each one among these songs’ and I used to be like ‘I’ve by no means heard any of those songs!’ I don’t hearken to the radio so I don’t know any Nickelback songs.”

Portnoy then proceeded to hearken to a drumless model of ‘Burn It To The Floor’ earlier than taking part in although his try, which was far busier on the kick drums than the unique. After the efficiency, Portnoy stated: “I’m positive if I ended up doing exhibits or touring with them, it’d most likely be probably the most enjoyable exhibits I might ever play in my life. So I sort of remorse that the gig didn’t occur, however we bought a little bit style of what would’ve been.”

Watch Mike Portnoy’s try at Nickelback’s ‘Burn It To The Floor’ under.

In October, Dream Theater took to X to announce that Mike Portnoy was returning because the band’s drummer. In the identical submit, the band additionally introduced that their up to date line-up shall be recording a brand new studio album collectively, marking the band’s first studio recording with Portnoy since 2009’s ‘Black Clouds & Silver Linings’.

Portnoy’s return reverts Dream Theater to their traditional 1999 and 2000 lineup, which consists of Portnoy, singer James LaBrie, guitarist John Petrucci, bassist John Myung and keyboardist Jordan Rudess. As this lineup, the band recorded six studio albums, from 1999’s ‘Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Reminiscence’ to 2009’s ‘Black Clouds & Silver Linings’.