REVIEW AND PICTURES MY ARTO LEHTINEN AND MARKO SYRJALA
The masters of progressive metal Dream Theater are known for having fallen in love with Finland as evidenced by their visits to the northernmost country on every tour since 1995. In 1995 the band played here for the first time in a small club with Fates Warning supporting. Some time has passed by since those days and many things have changed. The band has released a bunch of albums, the latest one DRAMATIC TURN OF EVENTS came out in the fall of 2011, and Dream Theater is now playing in arenas. There are also some changes in the line-up as the core and founder Mike Portnoy is no longer in the band. As it is widely known Mr. Portnoy left the band in late 2010 to pursue other interests and he’s now replaced by new drummer Mike Mangnini.
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Tags: Dream Theater, JAMES LABRIE, John Myong, John Petrucci, Jordan Rudess, Mike Mangini
Posted in 2012 | Comments (0)
DREAM THEATER
DRUMMER MIKE MANGINI
INTERVIEW AND PICTURES BY MARKO SYRJALA
Mike Mangini is an American drummer, and the current drummer for the progressive metal band Dream Theater. Mangini joined band in 2011 after the departure of founding drummer Mike Portnoy. Later on that same year the band released its latest opus DRAMATIC TURN OF EVENTS. Mangini’s earlier playing credits include Annihilator, Extreme and Steve Vai among others. He’s also well known for his work as a session musician and lecturing for years at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Mangini has also written two books titled Rhythm Knowledge about his unique drumming techniques, a practice method for deconstructing and simplifying complex poly-rhythms and time signatures. Dream Theater opened their 2012 European leg of “Dramatic Tour of Events” from Helsinki in mid January. It was at this tour stop that we had a pleasure to sit down with Mr. Mangini and discuss the current state of Dream Theater and some older stuff as well. Read on!
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Tags: ANNIHILATOR, Dream Theater, Extreme, Gary Cherone, JAMES LABRIE, John Petrucci, Jordan Rudess, Mike Mangini, Mike Portnoy, nuno bettencourt
Posted in 2012 | Comments (0)
DREAM THEATER
23.09 2009
Live at Ice Hall, HELSINKI
FINLAND
American progressive metal masters Dream Theater arrived once again Finland to please its constantly crowing fan base. Although band has recently released new album BLACK CLOUDS AND SILVER LININGS this current tour was advertised under banner Progressive Nation 2009.
REVIEW AND PICTURES BY MARKO SYRJÄLÄ
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Tags: Derek Sherinian, Dream Theater, JAMES LABRIE, John Myong, John Petrucci, Jordan Rudess, Mike Portnoy
Posted in 2009 | Comments (0)
27.9 2005
Live at Ice Hall, HELSINKI
I don’t know if it’ s something to do with the recent revival of older metal/hard rock on the scene – initiated by the likes of Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Mötley Crue but it seems that metal is more popular than ever. Almost every concert in Finland is selling pretty well and tonight Dream Theater had the sold-out crowd head banging in wild abandon for the duration of their two-and-a-half-hour set. It’s quite impressive when we talk about a band which plays heavy, complexed and hard-driving hybrid of metal and progressive rock.
REVIEW AND PICTURES BY MARKO SYRJÄLÄ
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Tags: Dream Theater, JAMES LABRIE, John Myong, John Petrucci, Jordan Rudess, Mike Portnoy
Posted in 2005 | Comments (0)
