Mike Portnoy discography

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This is a discography of works by Mike Portnoy. For information about recordings made by Dream Theater see Dream Theater discography.

Albums discography[]

Year Band Title Notes
1984 Rising Power Power for the People
1986 Inner Sanctum 12 A.M.
S. A. Adams Unearthed
Majesty Majesty demos
1989 Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite
1992 Images and Words
1993 Live at the Marquee Recorded at the Marquee Club in London, England, on April 23, 1993.
1994 Awake
1995 A Change of Seasons EP album. Contains live tracks recorded at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London on January 31, 1995.
1996 Various Artists Working Man – A Tribute to Rush Portnoy drums on six tracks
1997 Dream Theater Falling into Infinity
1998 Once in a LIVEtime Recorded at the Bataclan in Paris, France, on June 25, 1998.
Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment
1999 Liquid Tension Experiment 2
Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
Various Artists Encores Legends & Paradox; A Tribute to the Music of ELP Portnoy drums on two tracks
2000 Transatlantic SMPT:e
2001 Bridge Across Forever
Live in America Recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. in June 2000.
Dream Theater Live Scenes from New York Recorded at the Roseland Ballroom in New York, New York, on August 30, 2000.
2002 Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Andy West Rama 1
2003 OSI Office of Strategic Influence
Neal Morse Testimony
Transatlantic Live in Europe Recorded at the 013 in Tilburg, Netherlands, on November 12, 2001.
John Arch A Twist of Fate EP
Dream Theater Train of Thought
2004 Neal Morse One
Dream Theater Live at Budokan Recorded at the Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan, on April 26, 2004.
2005 Dream Theater Octavarium
Neal Morse ?
G3 G3: Live in Tokyo Portnoy drums on three tracks
Yellow Matter Custard One Night in New York City tribute to The Beatles (with Paul Gilbert, Neal Morse, and Matt Bissonette)
2006 OSI Free
Morse, Portnoy and George Cover to Cover
Dream Theater Score Recorded at the Radio City Music Hall in New York, New York, on April 1, 2006.
Hammer of the Gods Two Nights in North America tribute to Led Zeppelin (with Paul Gilbert, Daniel Gildenlöw, and Dave LaRue)
Cygnus and the Sea Monsters One Night in Chicago tribute to Rush (with Paul Gilbert, Sean Malone, and Jason McMaster)
2007 Neal Morse Sola Scriptura
Dream Theater Systematic Chaos
Liquid Tension Experiment Spontaneous Combustion as Liquid Trio Experiment
Amazing Journey One Night in New York City tribute to The Who (with Paul Gilbert, Billy Sheehan, and Gary Cherone)
2008 Neal Morse Lifeline
Dream Theater Chaos in Motion 2007-2008 Recorded in various places between 2007 and 2008.
2009 Transatlantic The Whirlwind
Liquid Tension Experiment When the Keyboard Breaks: Live in Chicago As Liquid Trio Experiment. Recorded live in Chicago, Illinois, on June 25, 2008.
Dream Theater Black Clouds & Silver Linings Last album with Dream Theater
Wither EP
2010 Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare
Welcome to the Family EP
Transatlantic Whirld Tour 2010: Live in London Recorded at Shepherd's Bush Empire in London, England, on May 21, 2010.
2011 Adrenaline Mob Adrenaline Mob EP[1]
Neal Morse Testimony 2
Transatlantic More Never Is Enough: Live In Manchester & Tilburg 2010 Recorded in Manchester, England, and Tilburg, Netherlands in May 2010.
Yellow Matter Custard One More Night in New York City tribute to The Beatles (with Paul Gilbert, Neal Morse, and Kasim Sulton)
2012 Adrenaline Mob Omertà
Flying Colors Flying Colors
Morse, Portnoy and George Cover2Cover
Neal Morse Momentum
The Prog World Orchestra A Proggy Christmas
2013 Adrenaline Mob Covertà Cover EP that covers Badlands, Dio, The Doors, Van Halen, Heart, Rainbow, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath
The Winery Dogs The Winery Dogs
Unleashed in Japan
Portnoy, Sheehan, MacAlpine and Sherinian Live In Tokyo Material from their individual and collaborative careers. Recorded at the Zepp, in Tokyo, Japan, on November 14, 2012.
Flying Colors Live in Europe Recorded at the 013, Tilburg, Netherlands on September 21, 2012.
2014 Transatlantic Kaleidoscope
Bigelf Into the Maelstrom
Paul Gilbert Stone Pushing Uphill Man 2 tracks
Flying Colors Second Nature
Haken Restoration Gong on "Crystallised"
Transatlantic KaLIVEoscope
2015 The Neal Morse Band The Grand Experiment
Metal Allegiance Metal Allegiance Collaborative Album with David Ellefson from Megadeth and Alex Skolnick from Testament [1]
The Winery Dogs Hot Streak
Flying Colors Second Flight: Live at the Z7 Recorded at the Z7 in Pratteln, Switzerland, on October 12, 2014.
2016 Twisted Sister Metal Meltdown Recorded at the Hard Rock Hotel, Las Vegas, USA on May 30, 2015.
The Neal Morse Band The Similitude of a Dream
2017 The Winery Dogs Dog Years (EP)
Sons of Apollo Psychotic Symphony
2018 Metal Allegiance Volume II: Power Drunk Majesty
2019 The Neal Morse Band The Great Adventure
Sons of Apollo Live With The Plovdiv Psychotic Symphony Recorded at the Ancient Roman Theatre, Plovdiv, Bulgaria in September 2018
Flying Colors Third Degree
2020 Sons of Apollo MMXX
Morse/Portnoy/George Cov3r to Cov3r
John Petrucci Terminal Velocity
Neal Morse Sola Gratia
Flying Colors
2021 Transatlantic The Absolute Universe Released in three versions: The Breath of Life (Abridged Version), Forevermore (Extended Version) and Blu-Ray 5.1 Mix (Ultimate Version).
Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment 3
Between the Buried and Me Colors II Drum solo on "Fix the Error"
NMB (formerly The Neal Morse Band) Innocence & Danger

Instructional DVD releases[]

Portnoy has released several instructional drumming videos/DVDs. These include:

  • "Progressive Drum Concepts" (Rittor Music 1996 1 VHS/DVD)
  • "Liquid Drum Theater" (Hudson Music 2000 2 DVDs)
  • "In Constant Motion" (Hudson Music 2007, 3 DVDs)

Portnoy's self filmed performances[]

Portnoy has self-released "drum-cam" DVDs of the last several Dream Theater and side project recording sessions through his own "MP4" production company. These are "in-studio" recordings typically consisting of Full Band, Isolated Drums tracks, and an Audio Commentary.

  • "Asian Clinic Tour" (MP4 Productions 2001, 1 DVD)
  • "Ten Degrees of Turbulent Drumming" (MP4 Productions 2002, 1 DVD)
  • "Drums Across Forever" (MP4 Productions 2002, 1 DVD)
  • "Drums of Thought" (MP4 Productions 2004, 1 DVD)
  • "Live at Budokan" (MP4 Production 2005, 1 DVD)
  • "Mike Portnoy – Drumavarium" (MP4 Productions 2005, 1 DVD)
  • "sysDRUMatic chaos" (MP4 Productions 2007, 1 DVD)
  • "SCORE" (MP4 Productions 2008, 1 DVD)
  • "Black Clouds & Silver Drumming" (MP4 Productions 2009, 1 DVD)
  • "Whirlwind Drumming" (MP4 Productions 2010, 1 DVD)
  • "Testimony 2:Live Drum Cam" (MP4 Productions 2012, 1 DVD)
  • "Drumertá" (MP4 Productions 2012, 1 DVD)
  • "Drumming Colors" (MP4 Productions 2012, 1 DVD)
  • "Live Momentum" (MP4 Productions 2013, 1 DVD)
  • "The Drumming Dog" (MP4 Productions 2013, 1 DVD)
  • "Kaleidodrums" (MP4 Productions 2014, 1 DVD)
  • "Drumming Nature" (MP4 Productions 2014, 1 DVD)
  • "Hot Drums" (MP4 Productions 2015, 1 DVD)
  • "Metal Drumming" (MP4 Productions 2015, 1 DVD)

Awards and recognition[]

Modern Drummer

Mike Portnoy won the following Modern Drummer magazine Reader's Poll awards:

  1. Best Up & Coming Talent (1994)
  2. Best Progressive Rock Drummer (1995–2006)
  3. Best Recorded Performance (1995 for Awake, 1996 for A Change of Seasons, 1998 for Falling Into Infinity, 2000 for Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory, 2002 for Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, 2007 for Score) and 2011 for Nightmare (Avenged Sevenfold).[2]
  4. Best Clinician (2000, 2002)
  5. Best Educational Video/DVD (2000, 2002)
  6. Hall of Fame Inductee (2004)
  7. Best Rock Drummer (2015)

He has released three instructional videos, "Progressive Drum Concepts", "Liquid Drum Theater", which has won awards from Modern Drummer Magazine, and his latest "In Constant Motion". He has released many "Official Bootlegs" on his website, including footage of the studio sessions for the Dream Theater albums Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, Train of Thought, Octavarium and the Transatlantic release Bridge Across Forever. He has released bootlegs of his tribute bands Hammer of the Gods (a Led Zeppelin tribute), Yellow Matter Custard (The Beatles), Cygnus and the Sea Monsters (Rush), and Amazing Journey (The Who).

In the October 2009 issue of Rhythm Magazine, Portnoy was listed as #5 in their list of the Top 50 Drummers of All Time.[3]

He was featured on Fuse TV's Talking Metal where he joined with Bobby Ellsworth and the show's hosts in covering Motörhead's "Overkill."

On June 14, 2010, Mike Portnoy won the Metal Hammer Golden God Award for Best Drummer.[4]

As voted on by 6,500 drummers worldwide, Portnoy won the Drummies Award for Best Progressive Rock drummer in 2010, while Joey Jordison of Slipknot/Rob Zombie/Murderdolls won the award for Best Metal drummer.[5]

At the Revolver Golden God Awards on April 20, 2011, he won the "Best Drummer Award" for his work with Avenged Sevenfold.[6]

On June 7, 2011, Portnoy posted on his Facebook that he had won Drum! magazine's "Drummer of the Year Award" and the "Metal Drummer Award".[7][8]

Portnoy won the "Virtuoso" award at the 2013 Progressive Music Awards.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ "About". Adrenaline Mob. Archived from the original on 2013-11-29. Retrieved 2014-07-16.
  2. ^ "Modern Drummer 2011 Readers Poll". Tama.com. Archived from the original on 2011-09-30. Retrieved 2011-10-24.
  3. ^ "Mike Portnoy Named in Top 50 Drummers of All Time". Roadrunner Records. October 14, 2009. Archived from the original on October 16, 2009. Retrieved August 14, 2016.
  4. ^ "Machine Head, Mike Portnoy Win Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards". Roadrunner Records. June 15, 2010. Archived from the original on July 26, 2010. Retrieved August 14, 2016.
  5. ^ "MIKE PORTNOY, JOEY JORDISON WIN 2010 DRUMMIES AWARDS". Roadrunner Records. 2010-07-22. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
  6. ^ Josh Hart (2011-04-21). "Revolver Golden Gods – Winners Announced! - Revolver Magazine". Revolvermag.com. Retrieved 2011-10-24.
  7. ^ "Mike Portnoy wins several great awards from Drum! magazine!!". Facebook.com. Retrieved 2011-10-24.
  8. ^ "Drummies 2011: Results Announced!". DRUM! Magazine. Archived from the original on 2011-10-25. Retrieved 2011-10-24.
  9. ^ "Prog Awards 2013 – The Winners!". Prog Rock Magazine. 3 September 2013. Archived from the original on 5 September 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
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