{"id":18511,"date":"2018-02-19T12:19:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T12:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2018\/02\/19\/mike-portnoy-metal-is-bigger-and-better-than-ever\/"},"modified":"2018-02-19T12:19:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T12:19:28","slug":"mike-portnoy-metal-is-bigger-and-better-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2018\/02\/19\/mike-portnoy-metal-is-bigger-and-better-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Portnoy: \u2018Metal is bigger and better than ever\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Dream Theatre and current Sons of Apollo and Metal Allegiance drummer Mike Portnoy was recently interviewed by Anne Erickson. You can now listen to the chat below.<\/div>\n
Asked for his opinion on the state of the current heavy metal scene, Portnoy said: \u201cI think metal is bigger and better than ever. It went through a rough period in the late \u201890s and all of my favorite metal bands went through these horrible changes and the industry kind of just shut it out. But I would say the last 15 years or so, it\u2019s been back and bigger and better and stronger than ever.\u201d<\/div>\n
Portnoy added that the sophomore album from Metal Allegiance will tentatively arrive in June or July via Nuclear Blast. Initially conceived as a covers band, the project, which features Mike, David Ellefson (Megadeth) and Alex Skolnick (Testament) alongside a rotating cast of high-profile musicians, \u201cbasically taps in to my love and involvement in the metal world,\u201d Portnoy said.<\/div>\n
(NME)<\/div>\n
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In addition to Portnoy, Sons of Apollo features guitarist Ron \u201cBumblefoot\u201d Thal (ex-Guns N\u2019 Roses), bassist Billy Sheehan (The Winery Dogs, Mr. Big, David Lee Roth) and vocalist Jeff Scott Soto (ex-Journey, Yngwie Malmsteen\u2019s Rising Forece).<\/div>\n
Sons of Apollo\u2019s debut album, \u201cPsychotic Symphony\u201d, was released last October via InsideOut Music.<\/div>\n
(NME)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Dream Theatre and current Sons of Apollo and Metal Allegiance drummer Mike Portnoy was recently interviewed by Anne Erickson. You can now listen to the chat below. Asked for his opinion on the state of the current heavy metal scene, Portnoy said: \u201cI think metal is bigger and better than ever. It went through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}