Tag Archives: Neal Morse

New & Noteworthy: Here Comes the Releases – 1/12/2024

Posted by on January 12, 2024

  New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. As the 2024 new music cycle revs up, we will see new albums from metal staples The Rods and Magnum, as well as the first original songs from supergroup Exit Eden, among many […]

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New & Noteworthy: Releases of Being – (5/5/2023 – 9/15/2023)

Posted by on September 16, 2023

    New & Noteworthy has returned! Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. For this week’s list, we’re not only bringing you the week’s must-know releases, we’re taking you back to the albums that hit shelves since May that are worth a spin. These […]

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Metal By Numbers 9/30: Ace Frehley flies up the charts

Posted by on September 30, 2020

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.   I already made an “Aces High” pun the last time Ace Frehley put out an album, so the title took me a minute to come up with. Sixteen debuts is pretty hefty but […]

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Metal By Numbers 9/23: Yes we are Marilyn Manson, yes we are

Posted by on September 23, 2020

  Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.   I haven’t listened to Manson’s new album, but the statement We Are Chaos is sure as hell true this year as its ever been. I hate to keep beating the dead horse that is […]

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Mike Portnoy badmouths UK hospital on social media

Posted by on March 8, 2015

Poor Mike Portnoy. The former Dream Theater / former Adrenaline Mob / former Avenged Sevenfold drummer just can’t seem to get a break. He is currently on tour in the U.K. with The Neal Morse Band, and was scheduled to play Islington Assembly Hall Oon Saturday (March 7) when he came down with an illness. He […]

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New & Noteworthy, September 11th – The Art of Reason

Posted by on September 11, 2012

Given what day it is, I would be remiss if I did not start this column with words of remembrance. So to all that lost loved ones on this day eleven years ago, we still bear your sorrows with you. And although it has been said infinite times before, it can never be said enough […]

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Mike Portnoy’s Flying Colors Announce Details Regarding Debut Album

Posted by on January 11, 2012

With so much happening with Adrenaline Mob, we almost completely forgot about Mike Portnoy’s other projects. In fact, it’s been a while since we’ve last heard anything about the ex-Dream Theater drummer’s project with Steve Morse (Deep Purple, Dixie Dregs), Neal Morse  (Transatlantic, Spock’s Beard), Dave LaRue (Dixie Dregs) and Casey McPherson (Alpha Rev, Endochine). However, not only have details regarding the supergroup […]

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New & Noteworthy, May 24th – Resurface the End

Posted by on May 24, 2011

I don’t really have anything witty for an intro this week. After last week’s geeking out and the anticipation of the world coming to an end, my witticisms took some time off. All I have to say is this: Rapture cancelled. Please hang up and try your call again in 17 more years. The false […]

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Mike Portnoy To Tour With Neal Morse

Posted by on March 7, 2011

It’s been revealed that ex-Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy will be touring with multi-instrumentalist Neal Morse (Transatlantic, Spock’s Beard) this coming May. Morse will be touring with musicians who appeared on his 2003 progessive rock concept album Testimony, which highlights his conversion to Christianity. Portnoy, as well as Kansas’ Kerry Livgren, made appearances on Morse’s […]

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Mike Portnoy Announces New Project, While Dream Theater Starts Recording

Posted by on January 3, 2011

Mike Portnoy may not have been welcomed back into Dream Theater and Avenged Sevenfold, but we knew he’d eventually find another project to sink his teeth into. It’s been revealed that Portnoy is working with Steve Morse (Deep Purple, Dixie Dregs), multi-instrumentalist Neal Morse (Transatlantic, Spock’s Beard), bassist Dave LaRue (Dixie Dregs) and vocalist Casey McPherson (Alpha Rev, Endochine) on a new as-yet-unnamed band. The […]

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