Mike Portnoy

Michael Stephen "Mike" Portnoy is an American drummer primarily known as the former drummer, backing vocalist, and a co-founder of the progressive metal band Dream Theater. Known for his drumming prowess and technical skill, Portnoy has won 23 awards from the Modern Drummer magazine. He has co-produced the last six Dream Theater albums with guitarist John Petrucci, starting from Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory. From A Change of Seasons onwards, Portnoy had been writing a substantial amount of Dream Theater's lyrics. He is the second youngest person (after Neil Peart) to be inducted into the Modern Drummer's Hall of Fame (at 37 years of age). On September 8, 2010, it was announced that Portnoy had left Dream Theater. Portnoy cited conflicting interests as the reason behind his departure. On February 3, 2011, Portnoy announced that he has started a new project with Symphony X singer Russell Allen and guitarist Mike Orlando. Also he is involved in various projects with Neal Morse.

Known For: Acting

Born: Long Beach, New York, USA, 1967-04-20

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1993	Dream Theater: Images And Words - Live In Tokyo	Himself - Drums	64
2	1994	Dream Theater: [1994] The Rudess Experiment	Himself - Drums	0
3	2001	Dream Theater: Metropolis 2000 - Scenes From New York	Himself - Drums	84
4	2001	Mike Portnoy - Liquid Drum Theater	Himself - Drums	0
5	2002	Mike Portnoy - Drums Across Forever	Himself	0
6	2002	Mike Portnoy - Ten Degrees of Turbulent Drumming	Himself	0
7	2004	Mike Portnoy - Drums of Thought	Himself	0
8	2004	Dream Theater: Live at Budokan	Himself - Drums	76
9	2004	Dream Theater: Riding the Train of Thought	Self	0
10	2005	Mike Portnoy - Drumavarium		0
11	2005	Mike Portnoy - Live at Budokan	Himself	0
12	2006	Dream Theater: Score - 20th Anniversary World Tour	Himself - Drums	76
13	2007	Dream Theater: Bucharest, Romania	Himself	0
14	2007	Mike Portnoy - In Constant Motion	Himself - Drums	52
15	2007	Mike Portnoy - sysDRUMatic Chaos	Himself	0
16	2008	Dream Theater: Chaos in Motion	Himself - Drums	69
17	2009	Mike Portnoy - Black Clouds and Silver Drumming	Himself	0
18	2010	Mike Portnoy - Whirlwind Drumming	Himself	0
19	2011	Yellow Matter Custard: One More Night in New York City	Self - Drums	0
20	2011	Transatlantic: More Never Is Enough	Self	0
21	2012	Mike Portnoy: Testimony 2: Live in Los Angeles	Himself	0
22	2012	The Making of Flying Colors	Self	0
23	2012	Mike Portnoy - Drumerta	Himself	0
24	2012	Mike Portnoy - Drumming Colors	Himself	0
25	2012	Neal Morse: The Making of Momentum	Self	0
26	2013	Neal Morse: Live Momentum	Self	48
27	2013	Portnoy Sheehan MacAlpine Sherinian: Live in Tokyo	Self - Drums	80
28	2018	Haken - Live at ProgPower USA 2016	Gong (Guest Appearance)	0
29	2019	Mike Portnoy: The Great Adventure		0
30	2019	Sons of Apollo - Live with the Plovdiv Psychotic Symphony - Documentary	Self	0
31	2020	Neal Morse: The Making of Sola Gratia	Self	0
32	2021	Mike Portnoy: The Absolute Universe		0
33	2021	Liquid Tension Experiment 3		0
34	2023	Transatlantic: The Final Flight: Live At L'Olympia	Self	80
35		Dream Theater – Live At Tokyo Sun Plaza		0
36	1998	Dream Theater: 5 Years in a Livetime	Himself	77
37	2000	Transatlantic: The Making of SMPTe	Self	0
38	2002	Dream Theater: [2002] Rotterdamned		0
39	2003	Transatlantic - Live in Europe	Self - Drums, Backing Vocals	90
40	2003	Modern Drummer Festival Weekend 2003	Self	0
41	2003	Yellow Matter Custard: One Night in New York City	Self - Drums	0
42	2004	Neal Morse: Testimony Live	Self	0
43	2004	Dream Theater: When Dream and Day Reunite	Drums	50
44	2004	Mike Portnoy: Progressive Drum Concepts		0
45	2005	Dream Theater: A Walk Beside the Band	Himself - Drums	0
46	2005	Dream Theater: Dark Side of the Moon	Drums and Vcoals	0
47	2005	Cygnus and the Sea Monsters: One Night in Chicago	Himself - Drums	0
48	2005	G3 - Live in Tokyo	Drums	71
49	2006	Hammer of the Gods: Two Nights in North America	Himself - Drums	0
50	2006	Dream Theater: Romavarium	Self - Drums	85
51	2006	Transatlantic - Building the Bridge / Live in America	Self	0
52	2006	Amazing Journey: One Night in New York City	Himself - Drums	0
53	2006	Dream Theater: The Score So Far...	Himself	0
54	2007	Dream Theater: Chaos in Progress: The Making of Systematic Chaos	Drums / Vocals	0
55	2007	Neal Morse: The Making of Testimony	Self	0
56	2008	Liquid Tension Experiment - LTE Live 2008		0
57	2008	Neal Morse: Live at 3RP	Self	0
58	2008	Mike Portnoy - Score		0
59	2009	Liquid Tension Experiment: Live In LA	Himself - Drums	71
60	2009	Liquid Tension Experiment: Live In NYC		100
61	2009	Dream Theater - Santiago, Chile 12/6/05	Himself	0
62	2009	Transatlantic: The Making of the Whirlwind	Self	0
63	2010	Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage	Self	75
64	2010	Mike Portnoy on the “Art Of Drumming” with Terry Bozzio		0
65	2010	Transatlantic: Whirld Tour 2010: Live from Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London	Self	57
66	2011	Transatlantic: The Official Bootleg DVD	Self	0
67	2011	Dream Theater: The Spirit Carries On	Himself	56
68	2011	Dream Theater: Panem et Circensis	Drums and backing vocals	0
69	2011	Neal Morse: The Making of Testimony Two	Self	0
70	2011	Neal Morse: Testimony 2...For You.		0
71	2011	Neal Morse: Testimony Two - Live in Los Angeles	Self	68
72	2011	Stone Sour: Rock In Rio 2011	Himself - Drums	75
73	2012	PSMS Portnoy, Sheehan, MacAlpine & Sherinian: InstruMENTAL Inspirations		0
74	2012	Neal Morse: One Under Construction	Self	0
75	2012	Morse Portnoy George: The Making of Cover 2 Cover	Self	0
76	2013	Mike Portnoy: The Drumming Dog		0
77	2013	Mike Portnoy: Live Momentum		0
78	2013	The Neal Morse Band/The Flower Kings: 19 Days in Europe	Self	0
79	2013	Flying Colors: Live in Europe	Self - Drums	62
80	2014	Mike Portnoy: Drumming Nature		0
81	2014	Mike Portnoy: Kaleidodrums		0
82	2014	The Winery Dogs - Unleashed in Japan	Himself - Drums	80
83	2014	Transatlantic: The Making of Kaleidoscope	Self	0
84	2014	The Neal Morse Band - Live In India	Self	0
85	2014	The Winery Dogs: [2014] Sonisphere Festival	Himself - Drums	0
86	2014	Neal Morse: Morsefest - Testimony & One feat. Mike Portnoy Live	Self	0
87	2014	Flying Colors: Second Nature Video Anthology	Self	0
88	2014	Transatlantic: KaLIVEoscope	Self - Drums	80
89	2015	Mike Portnoy: Hot Drums		0
90	2015	Mike Portnoy: Metal Drumming		0
91	2015	Neal Morse: The Making of ?	Self	0
92	2015	The Neal Morse Band: The Making of The Grand Experiment	Self	0
93	2015	The Neal Morse Band: Live in Athens	Self	0
94	2015	Morsefest 2014: One	Self	0
95	2015	Morsefest 2014: Testimony	Self	0
96	2015	Neal Morse: The Sola Scriptura Sessions	Self	0
97	2015	Building the Beast: The Making of Metal Allegiance	Self	0
98	2015	Flying Colors : Second Flight - Live at The Z7	Self	85
99	2016	The Neal Morse Band: Cruise to the Edge	Self	0
100	2016	Metal Meltdown - Featuring Twisted Sister Live at the Hard Rock Casino Las Vegas	Himself - Drums	80
101	2016	The Neal Morse Band: Alive Again	Self	75
102	2016	The Neal Morse Band: The Making of a Dream	Self	80
103	2017	Neal Morse: Question Mark and Sola Scriptura Live	Self - Drums, Vocals	0
104	2017	Morsefest 2015: Question Mark	Self	100
105	2017	Morsefest 2015: Sola Scriptura	Self	100
106	2017	The Winery Dogs : Dog Years - Live in Santiago and Beyond 2013-2016	Himself - Drums	85
107	2018	Mike Portnoy: The Similitude of a Dream Live		0
108	2018	The Neal Morse Band : The Similitude of A Dream - Live in Tilburg 2017	Self	0
109	2018	Haken - L-1VE		0
110	2018	Morsefest 2017 - Testimony of a Dream	Self	0
111	2019	Mike Portnoy: Third Degree		0
112	2019	The Neal Morse Band – Live In Limbourg	Self	0
113	2019	The Neal Morse Band: The Adventure Begins (The Making Of The Great Adventure)	Self	0
114	2019	The Neal Morse Band: The Great Adventure Commentary	Self	0
115	2019	Sons Of Apollo: Live With The Plovdiv Psychotic Symphony	Self	87
116	2020	Mike Portnoy : MPMMXX Drum Cam		0
117	2020	The Neal Morse Band : The Great Adventour - Live in BRNO 2019	Self	80
118	2020	Flying Colors : Third Stage - Live in London	Self	85
119	2020	Transatlantic: Live At Sweden Rock 2014	Self	0
120	2021	The Making of the Absolute Universe by Transatlantic	Self	0
121	2021	Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe	Self	0
122	2021	Mike Portnoy - LTE3	Himself - Drums	0
123	2021	Neal Morse: The Making of Lifeline	Self	0
124	2021	The Neal Morse Band: The Making of Innocence & Danger	Self	0
125	2021	Morsefest 2019	Self	0
126	2022	The Neal Morse Band: A U.S. Tour Of Innocence And Danger	Self	0
127	2022	The Neal Morse Band: Morsefest 2021	Self	0
128	2023	Morsefest 2020: Sola Gratia	Self	0
129	2023	Morsefest 2020: Cover2Cover	Self	0
130	2024	Transatlantic: Morsefest 2022 - The Absolute Whirlwind	Self	0
131	2024	Neal Morse - Cruise to the Edge: Awakening - The Movie	Self	0
132	2024	Morsefest 2023: Testimony feat. NMB	Self	0
133	2024	Phil Collins: Drummer First	Self	0
134	2025	Dream Theater - Parasomnia		80
135		Dream Theater: Live in Paris 2024	Bateria, percussão e vocais	0

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