Mike Terrana


Mike Terrana 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 and Czech band Kreyson.
In addition, Mike has his own three-piece hard rock band, "TERRANA", and a live musical project that combines classical and rock music with operatic vocals, "Beauty of the Beat", which started at the time he was playing with Finnish vocalist Tarja Turunen, with the name Beauty and the Beat.

Style

Terrana is known for his powerful and technical drumming with many metal and rocks bands and for his exciting drum solos.

Equipment

Terrana is currently endorsed by pdp drums, a sub brand of dw, Remo drumheads, Vic Firth drumsticks with whom he has his own signature model, and Paiste cymbals, currently favoring the 900s and 900 Colorsound series. In the past he also endorsed Paiste's Signature and 2002 series. Other past equipment and endorsements include Premier drums, Drum Craft drums and Meinl cymbals.

Discography

; Terrana solo CDs
; Artension
; Axel Rudi Pell
; Avalanch
  • El Ángel Caído 2017
  • Hacia La Luz - Directo desde Madrid
  • El secreto
  • The Secret
; Beau Nasty
  • Dirty But Well Dressed
; Ferdy Doernberg
  • Storytellers Rain
  • Till I Run Out Of Road
; Downhell
  • A Relative Coexistence
; Driven
  • Self-Inflicted
; Emir Hot
  • Sevdah Metal
; Empire
  • Chasing Shadows
; Jean Fontanille
  • Unknown Parameter Value
; Roland Grapow
  • Kaleidoscope
; Haggard
; Hanover Fist
  • Hungry Eyes
; Tony Hernando
; Kuni
  • Looking For Action
; Kiko Loureiro
  • No Gravity
  • Fullblast
; Marco Iacobini
; Tony MacAlpine
  • Freedom To Fly
  • Evolution
  • Violent Machine
  • Live Insanity
; Yngwie Malmsteen
; Masterplan
  • MK II
  • Time To Be King
; Metalium
  • Millennium Metal – Chapter One
; Razorback
  • Deadringer
; Rage
  • Welcome to the Other Side
  • Best of – All G.U.N. Years
  • Unity
  • Soundchaser
  • From The Cradle To The Stage
  • Speak of the Dead
  • Full Moon In St. Petersburg
;Vision Divine
; Savage Circus
  • Of Doom and Death
; Damir Simic
  • The Quest
  • Live In Zagreb
  • Demomstratus
; Stuart Smith
  • Heaven & Earth
; Squealer
  • Made For Eternity
  • Under The Cross
; Taboo Voodoo
; Tarja Turunen
; The Dogma
; Tracy G
; John West
; Zillion
; Theodore Ziras
; Kee Marcello
; The Ferrymen
; Other releases
; Axel Rudi Pell
; Rage
; Tony Hernando
; Tony MacAlpine
; Yngwie Malmsteen
; Tarja Turunen
; Terrana solo DVDs