The Latest Breaking News from Mike Portnoy

Transatlantic announce "the most epic and mammoth of all TA Live releases!"

Transatlantic's new live album Live at Morsefest 2022: The Absolute Whirlwind will be released in April

Louder · Feb 16, 2024

“It’s a blessing and a curse… there’s times you feel like they’re hacking up your child! But the real freedom comes in trusting that it will all work out for the best”: How supergroup Transatlantic made Kaleidoscope

Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy, Pete Trewavas and Roine Stolt either flowed together like streams entering a powerful river – or made a pact to leave control-freak tendencies at the studio door

Louder · Jan 27, 2024

“Every album is different, but this one was a strange process." The Neal Morse Band's Great Adventure

Prolific prog rocker Neal Morse sat down with Prog in 2019 to talk about the latest Neal Morse Band album The Great Adventure

Louder · Jan 25, 2024

“Forget the luxuriant moustaches and sawn-off mike-stands that would come to define them: if the prog ethos meant avoiding the expected, they were definitely a prog band”: You’ve always known the truth about Queen

Mike Portnoy and Steve Howe provide supporting evidence that Bohemian Rhapsody is only the tip of the band’s boundary-pushing iceberg

Louder · Dec 25, 2023

Watch: Mike Portnoy breaks down his drum part from Dream Theater’s Pull Me Under, then plays it in full

The prog-igal son returns with a full play-through of one of Dream Theater's best-loved songs

MusicRadar · Dec 23, 2023

“It’s the big joke, bands doing their 15th farewell tour! And I get it… a year or two goes by and you think, ‘You know, I’d sure like to do that again. Why not?’” Neal Morse on the chances of a Transatlantic reunion

He’s released the first of two concept albums based on Joseph of the technicolour coat, and he has plenty more on his plate - but he can’t stop loving the energy when people come together to create music

Louder · Dec 18, 2023

10 massive metal bands we want new albums from in 2024

From Ozzy Osbourne to Tool, a host of metal legends look ready to make 2024 a star-studded year

Metal Hammer · Dec 12, 2023

Mike Portnoy explains Dream Theater return: “We’ve been reconnecting through the last few years.”

Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy talked about his return to the band in October during a recent live event

Metal Hammer · Nov 24, 2023

Original Dream Theater singer Charlie Dominici dead at 72

Frontman Charlie Dominici sang on Dream Theater's 1989 debut album When Dream And Day Unite

Metal Hammer · Nov 17, 2023

Dream Theater’s James LaBrie comments on Mike Portnoy return: “Gonna be one hell of a ride for all.”

The Dream Theater frontman welcomed the band’s returning drummer “home” and teased a new studio album and world tour

Metal Hammer · Nov 14, 2023