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 (where he now owns and runs a cattery). 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 currently uses pdp drums, a sub brand of dw, Remo drumheads, Paiste cymbals, and Vic Firth drumsticks, with whom he has his own signature sticks. In the past he has also used Drum Craft drums and Meinl cymbals.

Discography

Terrana solo CDs

Shadows of the Past (1998)

Man of the World (2005)

Sinfonica (2011)

Artension

Into the Eye of the Storm (1996)

Phoenix Rising (1997)

Sacred Pathways (2001)

New Discovery (2002)

Future World (2004)

Axel Rudi Pell

The Ballads II (1999)

The Wizard's Chosen Few (2000)

The Masquerade Ball (2000)

Shadow Zone (2002)

Knights Live (2002)

Kings and Queens (2004)

The Ballads III (2004)

Mystica (2006)

Diamonds Unlocked (2007)

Tales of the Crown (2008)

The Best of Axel Rudi Pell: Anniversary Edition (2009)

The Crest (2010)

The Ballads IV (2011)

Circle of the Oath (2012)

Avalanch

El Ángel Caído 2017 (2017)

Hacia La Luz - Directo desde Madrid (2018)

El secreto (2019)

The Secret (2019)

Beau Nasty

Dirty But Well Dressed (1989)

Ferdy Doernberg

Storytellers Rain (2001)

Till I Run Out Of Road (2004)

Downhell

A Relative Coexistence (2008)

Driven

Self-Inflicted (2001)

Emir Hot

Sevdah Metal (2008)

Empire

Chasing Shadows (2007)

Jean Fontanille

Unknown Parameter Value (2008)

Roland Grapow

Kaleidoscope (1999)

Haggard

Tales Of Ithiria (2008) (as narrator)

Hanover Fist

Hungry Eyes (1985)

Tony Hernando

The Shades Of Truth (2002)

Ill (2005)

TH III-Live! CD/DVD (2006)

"Actual Events" (2009)

Kuni

Looking For Action (1988)

Kiko Loureiro

No Gravity (2005)

Fullblast (2009)

Marco Lacobini

The Sky There'll Always Be (2013)

Tony MacAlpine

Freedom To Fly (1992)

Evolution (1995)

Violent Machine (1996)

Live Insanity (1997)

Yngwie Malmsteen

The Seventh Sign (1993)

I Can't Wait (1994)

Best Of (2000)

Archive Box (2001)

Masterplan

MK II (2007)

Time To Be King (2010)

Metalium

Millennium Metal – Chapter One (1999)

Razorback

Deadringer (2007)

Rage

Welcome to the Other Side (2001)

Best of – All G.U.N. Years (2001)

Unity (2002)

Soundchaser (2003)

From The Cradle To The Stage (2004)

Speak of the Dead (2006)

Full Moon In St. Petersburg (2007)

Vision Divine

When All The Heroes Are Dead (2019)

Savage Circus

Of Doom and Death (2009)

Damir Simic

The Quest (1998)

Live In Zagreb (2002)

Demomstratus (2004)

Stuart Smith

Heaven & Earth (1998)

Squealer

Made For Eternity (2000)

Under The Cross (2002)

Taboo Voodoo

Somethin's Cookin' (2003)

Tarja Turunen

What Lies Beneath (2010)

Act I: Live in Rosario (2012)

Colours in the Dark (2013)

Beauty and the Beat (2014)

Luna Park Ride (2015)

The Shadow Self (2016)

The Dogma

Black Roses (2006)

Tracy G

Deviating From The Set List (2003)

John West

Mind Journey (1997)

Zillion

Zillion (2004)

Theodore Ziras

Superhuman (2008)

Kee Marcello

Judas Kiss (2013)

The Ferrymen

The Ferrymen (2017)

A New Evil (2019)

Other releases

Tribute To Accept (Metalium track "Burning") (1999)

Holy Dio - A Tribute To The Voice Of Metal : Ronnie James Dio (1999)

Videography

Axel Rudi Pell

"Knight Treasures (Live and More)" (2002)

"Live Over Europe DVD" (2008)

"One Night Live DVD" (2010)

"Live on Fire DVD" (2012)

Rage

"From The Cradle To The Stage Live DVD" (2004)

"Full Moon In St. Petersburg Live DVD" (2007)

Tony Hernando

"Tony Hernando THIII Live DVD" (2006)

Tony MacAlpine

"Starlicks Master Session VHS" (1992)

"Live in L.A. DVD" (1997)

Yngwie Malmsteen

"Live at Budokan DVD" (1994)

Tarja Turunen

"Act I : Live in Rosario" (2012)

"Beauty and the Beat" (2014)

Terrana solo DVDs

Rhythm Beast Performance DVD (2007)

Double Bass Mechanics DVD (1996)

Beginning Rock Drums DVD (1995)

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