IT’S A DREAM COME TRUE!
“I love to play guitar and I wanted the spirit of that to be heard.”
Dream Theater guitarist John Petrucci reveals that the sense of joy emanating from his new solo album, Terminal Velocity, has come partly from his reunion with the band’s former drummer Mike Portnoy. The musician’s latest nine-track recording is out on August 28 via The Orchard Music.
The follow-up to, marks the first time the pair have worked together since Portnoy’s unexpected departure from Dream Theater in 2010. Up until that point, he’d been a key figure in every step of the prog metal band’s development since co-founding them as Majesty in the 1980s.
