Mike Terrana
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| Background information | |
| Born |
January 21, 1960 Buffalo, New York |
| Genres | Instrumental Rock, Power Metal, Neoclassical Metal, Heavy Metal, Progressive Metal, Jazz Fusion |
| Occupation(s) | Drummer, musician, songwriter |
| Instruments | Drums |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Associated acts |
Axel Rudi Pell Rage Artension Tony Macalpine Tarja Turunen Yngwie Malmsteen Masterplan Kiko Loureiro Metalium Roland Grapow Savage Circus Avalanch Vision Divine Hardline |
| Website | www |
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. He worked with the German bands Rage, Gamma Ray, Savage Circus, Axel Rudi Pell, Roland Grapow and Masterplan. In 2016, Terrana joined Italian heavy metal band Vision Divine. In 2017, Terrana also joined Spanish band Avalanch.
In addition, Mike has his own 3 piece hard rock band called "TERRANA" and a live musical project which combines classical and rock music with operatic vocals called Beauty Of The Beat, which started at the time he was playing with Finnish vocalist Tarja Turunen, with the name Beauty and the Beat.
Terrana is also engaged in projects in the instrumental fusion genre and performs drum clinics around the world for PDP Drums Paiste Cymbals, Remo Drum Heads, Vic Firth Sticks, Beyer Dynamic Microphones.
Terrana is known for his powerful and technical drumming with many metal and rocks bands and for his exciting drum solos.
Terrana endorses Pacific Drums and Percussion (PDP) a division of DW Drums. Remo Drum Heads, Vic Firth "Terrana" Signature Drum Stick, Paiste Cymbals.
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