Biography

Mike Portnoy is an American drummer, songwriter and producer, born on April 20, 1967 in Long Island, New York, USA. In 1985 he founded the progressive metal band Dream Theater together with guitarist John Petrucci and bassist John Myung while they attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston. After 25 years with Dream Theater, Portnoy left the band in 2010 and has since then played in a variety of projects and bands including Adrenaline Mob, Avenged Sevenfold, The Winery Dogs, Sons of Apollo and The Neal Morse Band. In October 2023, Mike Portnoy returned to Dream Theater.
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His favorite movies are A Clockwork Orange (1971), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Magnolia (1999) and Requiem for a Dream (2000).

After 13 years away from the band, he returned to Dream Theater in October 2023.

He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he met fellow bandmates John Petrucci and John Myung.

He is a recovering alcoholic, and has written a musical suite with Dream Theater known as "The Twelve-step Suite", which consists of five songs ("The Glass Prison", "This Dying Soul", "The Root of All Evil", "Repentance" and "The Shattered Fortress") spread across five albums.

In 2004 (at age 37) he became the second youngest person to be inducted into Modern Drummer's Hall of Fame.