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Former
DREAM THEATER drummer
Mike Portnoy played drums on
"Terminal Velocity", the upcoming solo album from
DREAM THEATER guitarist
John Petrucci. Due in the fall, the disc also features
Dave LaRue (
DIXIE DREGS) on bass.
Portnoy revealed his involvement with
"Terminal Velocity" in a social media post earlier today (Wednesday, July 1). He also shared the track listing for the effort and a video teaser, which can be seen below.
"Terminal Velocity" track listing:
01.
Terminal Velocity
02.
The Oddfather
03.
Happy Song
04.
Gemini
05.
Out Of The Blue
06.
Glassy-Eyed Zombies
07.
The Way Things Fall
08.
Snake In My Boot
09.
Temple Of Circadia
The cover artwork was created by
Sean Mosher-Smith at
Echo Designlab.
This past January,
Portnoy said that he would "love" to make music with
Petrucci again.
The drummer commented on the possibility of working with his former bandmate in
DREAM THEATER just a couple of weeks after
Portnoy took to his social media to upload two photos of him and the
DREAM THEATER guitarist, along with their respective families, at what appeared to be the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center in New York City.
Asked in a
an interview with Myglobalmind if there are any plans to ever work with
Petrucci again,
Portnoy said: "We would both love it. We are a great team of 25 years as we were co-captains of
DREAM THEATER and
LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT. I would also go out with him on the
'G3' tours.
"I look back at the relationship we had, and it was very special from a drummer-guitarist relationship," he continued. "You can see that with
Lars [
Ulrich] and
James [
Hetfield] of
METALLICA,
Dimebag [
Darrell Abbott] and
Vinnie [
Paul Abbott] of
PANTERA, and
Eddie and
Alex Van Halen. I think
John and I had that type of partnership.
"We are both at our best and strongest when we work together, and I miss that relationship,
Portnoy added. "He and I have a great personal relationship now and get together with our families. It would be a shame not to make music in some capacity in the future. I hope we can."
Asked what he thinks his renewed musical collaboration with
Petrucci would sound like,
Portnoy said: "If you listen to the first 10
DREAM THEATER albums, that's what it would sound like. I think that
DREAM THEATER and
LIQUID TENSION was a nice combination of our styles as well as the other members of those bands. I think
John and I both have very distinctive styles. We have written hundreds of songs, so I think it would be pretty obvious what it would sound like."
Portnoy, who co-founded
DREAM THEATER more than 30 years ago, abruptly quit the band in September 2010 while on tour with
AVENGED SEVENFOLD. He has since been replaced by
Mike Mangini (
ANNIHILATOR,
EXTREME,
JAMES LABRIE,
STEVE VAI).
After
Portnoy posted a photo two years ago of him hanging out with
Petrucci, many
DREAM THEATER fans expressed hope that it represented a thawing of tensions between the two musicians who had been friends for more than three decades. But
John played down the photo's significance, telling
Music Radar: "
Mike and I have maintained a relationship and have been friends all these years. Our families are all good friends, and we've gotten together several times. That just was the first time we took a photo and posted a photo. [There's] nothing to read into, other than it's good to maintain good relationships. That's really all it is."
Portnoy told
"The Metal Podcast" that he and
John had "actually reconnected" in recent years "and gotten together many times and had dinner together with our families." He added: "The reality is he and I have been friends since the first week in college back in September of 1985, so it's a relationship that goes back [34] years. And our families are all friends, our wives and our kids are all friends, we all grew up together, and that's never gonna go away.
"After I left
DREAM THEATER, there were some years' worth of drama and bullshit," he admitted. "But the reality is you put all that aside and friends are friends and family is family and
John and I will always be friends and family."
Mike told
Loud that he left
DREAM THEATER because he wanted to expand his musical horizons. "[I didn't] want to go to my grave and just be the drummer from
DREAM THEATER," he said. "I knew there was way more to what I had to offer."
Since the 2010 departure of
Portnoy,
Petrucci, along with keyboardist
Jordan Rudess, has taken on much of the songwriting load for
DREAM THEATER, including 2016's controversial double concept album,
"The Astonishing", and last year's
"Distance Over Time".
