Mike Terrana Musical artist

Mike Terrana (January 21, 1960) is an American hard rock and heavy metal drummer. His first professional work was in 1984 with the MCA band Hanover Fist from Toronto, after which he recorded and toured with other bands, playing many styles of music in Western New York state. Between 1987 and 1997, he was based in Los Angeles and worked with various virtuoso guitarists, including Yngwie Malmsteen, Tony Macalpine, Steve Lukather, and bands like Kuni and Beau Nasty.In 1997 Terrana moved to Europe, first in the Netherlands for six months and then Germany (where he now owns a Cattery). He worked with the German bands Rage, Gamma Ray, Savage Circus, Axel Rudi Pell, Roland Grapow and Masterplan.He is currently a member of Tarja Turunen's support band, and has performed on her last two solo releases, What Lies Beneath and Colours in the Dark.Terrana is also engaged in projects in the instrumental fusion genre and performs drum clinics around the world for DrumCraft and Paiste cymbals.

Personal facts

Mike Terrana
Birth dateJanuary 21, 1960
Birth place
Buffalo New York

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Musical artist

Career started1978
associated musical artist
Savage Circus
Yngwie Malmsteen
Hardline (band)
Artension
Tony MacAlpine
Axel Rudi Pell
Masterplan (band)
Tarja Turunen
Rage (band)
BackgroundNon vocal instrumentalist
genre
Heavy metal music
Neoclassical metal
Progressive metal
Instrumental rock
Jazz fusion
Power metal
instrument
Drum kit
Vic Firth
Evans
Paiste

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External resources

  1. http://vidsearch.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=24027635
  2. http://www.dockyard1.com/terrana/default.asp
  3. http://www.drummerszone.com/news/newsItem.php?type=5&n01ID=5630
  4. http://www.lordsofmetal.nl/showinterview.php?id=1933&lang=en
  5. http://www.mywinterstorm.com
  6. http://www.tarjaturunen.com
  7. http://www.terrana.com