Hi,
It's that over used snare drum, that is just trying to imitate a metronome, instead of being a musical instrument. In other words, the worst drumming possible, ever found! To me, that's spam! Like most prog these days! And some of those folks actually call themselves "musicians", instead of "numberists" in my book! Or as I said, after a Dream Theater concert, I would like to slam that snare drum in Mike's head and have him use it as a neck ornament and see if he still could play drums on that huge unused kit!
At least Christian Vander always used it as the turning point in the various parts of the music!