Mike Mangini, Derek Roddy, Thomas Lang, Virgil Donati, Marco Minnemann, Aquiles Priester, and Peter Wildoer all auditioned in 2010 to take over drums after Mike Portnoy left the band.

Rob Skarin

Mike Mangini, Derek Roddy, Thomas Lang, Virgil Donati, Marco Minnemann, Aquiles Priester, and Peter Wildoer all auditioned at SIR in NYC, in 2010, to take over the drum throne after Mike Portnoy’s departure. The amazingly strong auditions were memorialized in a three-part documentary, called The Spirit Carries On.