He’s free as a bird, and he’s happy. Mike Portnoy has been playing in one band after the other for four years now, and it seems to be doing him a world of good. “I always knew that there was way, way more bubbling underneath the surface that needed to get out and be explored and still does!”, he confesses in the following interview, adding: “I don’t want to live in the shadow of only one band”. Things couldn’t be clearer: Mike Portnoy is over his 2010 break-up with Dream Theater and is now concentrating on the new bands with whom he’s started a stable relationship. As proof of that, Flying Colors is releasing a second album that shows a broadening of their musical horizon, and the Winery Dogs trio has also embarked on a new album cycle. But going stable doesn’t mean having no ambitions or ideas on the side – and extreme metal seems to be one such ambition.
We talked about the drummer Mike Portnoy, who’s having fun whatever he’s playing, about the “default” leader Mike Portnoy, who can also be happy as a simple musician in a band, and about the communicator Mike Portnoy, who’s now weary of the controversy that being open and honest can create. But before all that, let’s talk about the new Flying Colors album, which is worth every second spent listening to it.
Russian Circles – Gnosis
Quand Metallica fait l’histoire à Clisson
Le FURIOSFEST dévoile son running order
SHINING va enregistrer son onzième album en automne
DYNAZTY dévoile le clip de la chanson «The White»
MEGADETH dévoile le clip vidéo de la nouvelle chanson « Soldier On! »
The Halo Effect : copains d’avant… et d’aujourd’hui
Exocrine et l’exercice du tech-death
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE annule son passage à Paris et sa tournée européenne
HEILUNG dévoile la nouvelle chanson « Tenet »