Mike Terrana
Mike Terrana is an American hard rock and heavy metal drummer.
His first professional work was in 1984 with the band Hanover Fist from Toronto Canada, 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 virtuos guitarists, including Yngwie Malmsteen, Tony MacAlpine, Steve Lukather, 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.
Mike is currently a recording and touring member of the Tarja Turunen band (ex-singer of Nightwish) and has recently recorded her last two solo releases entitled “What Lies Beneath” and “Colours in the Dark”.
In the summer of 2013 Mike founded his own band called ” Terrana” a classic 3 piece power trio reminiscent of the music that was generated in the 1970's, no pro tools, no auto-tune and no drum samples ….just pure live rock n roll with a positive message.
The band released 10 songs in the spring of 2014 followed by subsequent tours of Europe and South America.