Mike Terrana Explained

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Mike Terrana
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Birth Date:	21 January 1960
Birth Place:	Buffalo, New York, U.S.
Occupation:	Drummer
Years Active:	1978–present

Mike Terrana (born January 21, 1960) is an American hard rock and heavy metal drummer.

Career

His first professional work was in 1984, with the MCA band Hanover Fist from Toronto, Canada.^[1] Between 1987 and 1997, he was based in Los Angeles and worked with various guitarists, including Yngwie Malmsteen, Tony Macalpine, and Steve Lukather, and bands like Kuni and Beau Nasty.

In 1997, Terrana moved to Europe—first to the Netherlands for six months and then Germany.^[2] He worked with German bands and artists such as Rage, Gamma Ray, Savage Circus, Axel Rudi Pell, Roland Grapow, and Masterplan.^[3]

Since 2007, he has played for the German band Razorback.^[4]

In 2016, Terrana joined the Italian heavy metal band Vision Divine.^[5] In 2017, he joined the metal bands Avalanch (Spain) and Kreyson (Czechia).^[6] ^[7]

Since 2020, he has been posting drumming videos on TikTok. As of April 2024, he has over 500,000 followers.^[8]

Timeline

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Discography

Solo

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

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)
(2009)
The Crest (2010)
The Ballads IV (2011)
Circle of the Oath (2012)

Avalanch

El Ángel Caído 2017 (2017)
Hacia La Luz – Directo desde Madrid (2018)
El secreto (2019)
The Secret (2019)

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)

Vision Divine

When All the Heroes Are Dead (2019)

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)
(2012)
Colours in the Dark (2013)
Beauty and the Beat (2014)
Luna Park Ride (2015)
The Shadow Self (2016)

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)

The Ferrymen

The Ferrymen (2017)
A New Evil (2019)
One More River to Cross (2022)

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)^[9]
Double Bass Mechanics DVD (1996)
Beginning Rock Drums DVD (1995)

Notes and References

Web site: Hanover Fist on MusicMight . Musicmight.com . October 29, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110827201528/http://musicmight.com/artist/canada/ontario/toronto/hanover+fist . August 27, 2011 .
Web site: [Revealed] Who is Dream Theater's new drummer?]. Rami. Rouhana.
Web site: Savage circus line up completed – official website news . Savagecircus.de . October 29, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111003180636/http://www.savagecircus.de/news.php?misc=search&subaction=showfull&id=1188906390&archive=&cnshow=news&ucat=1&start_from=& . October 3, 2011 .
Web site: Razorback – Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives . April 4, 2024 . www.metal-archives.com.
Web site: Ladies and gentleman....our new drummer! . https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/31087625253/10156877615680254 . February 26, 2022 . limited. Vision Divine Facebook page . July 17, 2016.
Web site: Avalanch anuncia nueva formación y gira mundial . January 10, 2017 . Avalanch Net . February 7, 2017.
Web site: Kreyson Ládi Křížka má Terranu a Grapowa . Spark Rock Magazine . May 9, 2017.
Web site: TikTok – Make Your Day . April 4, 2024 . www.tiktok.com.
Web site: Drummer MIKE TERRANA To Release 'The Rhythm Beast – In Session' DVD news . Roadrunnerrecords.com . October 29, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110607023651/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=77815 . June 7, 2011 .