Mike Terrana

Mike Terrana
Background information
Born	(1960-01-21) January 21, 1960 Buffalo, New York
Genres	Instrumental rock, power metal, neo-classical metal, heavy metal, progressive metal, jazz fusion
Occupation(s)	Drummer, musician, songwriter
Instruments	Drums
Years active	1978–present
Associated acts	Tarja Turunen, Axel Rudi Pell, Rage, Masterplan, Artension, Hardline, Savage Circus, Yngwie Malmsteen, Tony Macalpine
Website	www.terrana.com
Notable instruments
DrumCraft, Paiste cymbals, Vic Firth sticks, Trick BassDrum Pedals, Evans Drum Heads

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,^[1] 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.^[2] He worked with the German bands Rage, Gamma Ray, Savage Circus, Axel Rudi Pell, Roland Grapow and Masterplan.^[3]

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.

Style

Terrana is well known and admired for his fast and furious drumming, which includes rapid solos. He is also a heavy user of accent drums and cymbals like gong drums and splashes, adding to his sound. When playing he often prefers to play mixtures of rapid beats on bass drums complimented by fast beats alternating between the toms and snare.

Equipment

Terrana endorses Drum Craft drums, a new German company, and states being very happy with their quality and tone, describing them as "the sound I've always been looking for. They never let me down." He also endorses Evans drum heads and Vic Firth drum sticks, with whom he has his own signature pair of sticks designed to his specifications, which are well favored among the drumming community. He is now also endorsing Paiste cymbals (all cymbals in custom white colorsound):

• 14" Signature sound edge hi-hats

• 10" 2002 splash

• 10" 2002 splash/5.5" 2002 cup chime (stacked)

• 8" 2002 splash/5" 2002 cup chime (stacked, x2)

• 17" Signature full crash

• 12" Signature flanger bell/5" 2002 cup chime (stacked)

• 8" Signature splash/5" 2002 cup chime stacked)

• 18" Signature full crash

• 19" Signature full crash

• 19" 2002 wild china (x2)

• 16" Signature thin china/14" Signature sound edge hi-hat top (stacked)

• 20" Signature full ride

Discography

Artension

• Into the Eye of the Storm (1996)
• Phoenix Rising (1997)
• Sacred Pathways (2001)
• New Discovery (2002)
• Future World (2004)

Axel Rudi Pell

• The Ballads II (1999)
• The Wizard's Chosen Few (2000)
• The Masquerade Ball (2000)
• Shadow Zone (2002)
• Knights Live (2002)
• Kings and Queens (2004)
• The Ballads III (2004)
• Mystica (2006)
• Diamonds Unlocked (2007)
• Tales of the Crown (2008)
• The Best of Axel Rudi Pell: Anniversary Edition (2009)
• The Crest (2010)
• The Ballads IV (2011)
• Circle of the Oath (2012)

Beau Nasty

• Dirty but Well Dressed"' (1989)

Ferdy Doernberg

• Storytellers Rain (2001)
• Till I run Out of Road (2004)

Downhell

• A Relative Coexistence (2008)

Driven

• Self-Inflicted (2001)

Emir Hot

• Sevdah Metal (2008)

Empire

• Chasing Shadows (2007)

Jean Fontanille

• Unknown Parameter Value (2008)

Roland Grapow

• Kaleidoscope (1999)

Haggard

• Tales of Ithiria (2008) (as narrator)

Hanover Fist

• Hungry Eyes (1985)

Tony Hernando

• The Shades of Truth (2002)
• Ill (2005)
• TH III-Live! CD/DVD (2006)
• "Actual events" (2009)

Kuni

• Looking for Action (1988)

Kiko Loureiro

• No Gravity (2005)
• Fullblast (2009)

Marco Iacobini

• The Sky There'll Always Be (2013)

Tony MacAlpine

• Freedom to Fly (1992)
• Evolution (1995)
• Violent Machine (1996)
• Live Insanity (1997)

Yngwie Malmsteen

• The Seventh Sign (1993)
• I Can't Wait (1994)
• Best Of (2000)
• Archive Box (2001)

Masterplan

• MK II (2007)
• Time to Be King (2010)

Metalium

• Millennium Metal – Chapter One (1999)

Razorback

• Deadringer (2007)

Rage

• Welcome to the Other Side (2001)
• Best of - All G.U.N. Years (2001)
• Unity (2002)
• Soundchaser (2003)
• From the Cradle to the Stage (2004)
• Speak of the Dead (2006)
• Full Moon in St. Petersburg (2007)

Savage Circus

• Of Doom and Death (2009)

Damir Simic

• The Quest (1998)
• Live in Zagreb (2002)
• Demomstratus (2004)

Stuart Smith

• Heaven & Earth (1998)

Squealer

• Made for Eternity (2000)
• Under the Cross (2002)

Taboo Voodoo

• Somethin's Cookin' (2003)

Tarja Turunen

• What Lies Beneath (2010)
• Colours in the Dark (2013)

The Dogma

• Black Roses (2006)

Tracy G

• Deviating from the Set List (2003)

John West

• Mind Journey (1997)

Zillion

• Zillion (2004)

Theodore Ziras

• Superhuman (2008)

Kee Marcello

• Judas Kiss (2013)

Terrana solo CDs

• Shadows of the Past (1998)
• Man of the World (2005)
• Sinfonica (2011)

Other releases

• Tribute to Accept (Metalium track "Burning")(1999)
• Holy Dio - A Tribute to The Voice of Metal : Ronnie James Dio (1999)

Videography

Axel Rudi Pell

• "Knight Treasures (Live and More)" (2002)
• "Live Over Europe DVD" (2008)
• "One Night Live DVD" (2010)
• "Live On Fire DVD" (2012)

Rage

• "From The Cradle To The Stage Live DVD" (2004)
• "Full Moon In St. Petersburg Live DVD" (2007)

Tony Hernando

• "Tony Hernando THIII Live DVD" (2006)

Tony MacAlpine

• "Starlicks Master Session VHS" (1992)
• "Live in L.A. DVD" (1997)

Yngwie Malmsteen

• "Live at Budokan DVD" (1994)

Tarja Turunen

• "Act I : Live in Rosario" (2012)
• "Beauty and the Beat" (2014)

Terrana solo DVDs

• “Rhythm Beast Performance DVD” (2007)^[4]
• "Double Bass Mechanics DVD" (1996)
• "Beginning Rock Drums DVD" (1995)

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mike Terrana.

• Mike Terrana official site
• Tarja Turunen official page
• Tarja Turunen Universal Records official record company page
• Lords of Metal, monthly e-zine, November 2007
• Metal Zone video interview
• Dockyard 1 Terrana DVD release
• Drummer Zone

Axel Rudi Pell Axel Rudi Pell Johnny Gioeli Volker Krawczak Ferdy Doernberg Bobby Rondinelli Mike Terrana Charlie Huhn Rob Rock Jeff Scott Soto Jörg Deisinger Thomas Smuszynski Jörg Michael Georg Hahn Rüdiger König Kai Raglewski Julie Greaux Christian Wolff Studio albums Wild Obsession Nasty Reputation Eternal Prisoner Between the Walls Black Moon Pyramid Magic Oceans of Time The Masquerade Ball Shadow Zone Kings and Queens Mystica Tales of the Crown The Crest Circle of the Oath Into The Storm Cover albums Diamonds Unlocked Live albums Made in Germany Knights Live Live on Fire Compilation albums The Ballads The Ballads II The Wizard's Chosen Few The Ballads III The Best of Axel Rudi Pell: Anniversary Edition The Ballads IV Videography Knight Treasures (Live and More) Live Over Europe One Night Live Live on Fire Related articles Discography Steeler

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Masterplan Rick Altzi Roland Grapow Jari Kainulainen Axel Mackenrott Martin Marthus Škaroupka Jørn Lande Jan S. Eckert Uli Kusch Mike DiMeo Mike Terrana Studio albums Masterplan Aeronautics MK II Time to Be King Novum Initium EPs Back For My Life Lost and Gone Singles "Enlighten Me" "Far From the End of the World" Related articles Helloween Beautiful Sin Ark Iron Savior Rage Riot Allen-Lande Beyond Twilight Symfonia At Vance Cradle of Filth

Savage Circus Thomen Stauch Thorsten Hain Michael Schüren Axel Morgan Piet Sielck Yenz Leonhardt Mike Terrana Jens Carlsson Emil Norberg Studio albums Dreamland Manor (2005) Of Doom and Death (2009) Live albums Live in Atlanta (2007) Related bands Persuader Iron Savior Blind Guardian

Kiko Loureiro Kiko Loureiro Felipe Andreoli Virgil Donati Mike Terrana Yaniel Matos DaLua Cuca Teixeira Carlinhos Noronha Studio albums No Gravity Universo Inverso Fullblast Sounds Of Innocence Related articles Angra

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Metalium Tolo Grimalt Matthias Lange Lars Ratz Michael Ehré Henning Basse Chris Caffery Jack Frost Mike Terrana Mark Cross John Osborn Studio albums Millennium Metal – Chapter One State of Triumph – Chapter Two Hero Nation – Chapter Three As One – Chapter Four Demons of Insanity – Chapter Five Nothing to Undo – Chapter Six Grounded – Chapter Eight

Hardline Johnny Gioeli Alessandro Del Vecchio Josh Ramos Anna Portalupi Mike Terrana Michael T. Ross Rudy Sarzo Christopher Maloney Joey Tafolla Neal Schon Deen Castronovo Todd Jensen Studio albums Double Eclipse (1992) II (2002) Leaving the End Open (2009) Danger Zone (2012) Live albums Live at the Gods Festival 2002 (2003)

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