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Mike Portnoy

Michael Stephen Portnoy (born April 20, 1967) American drummer primarily known as the former drummer and backing vocalist for the progressive metal band Dream Theater. Known for his drumming prowess, Portnoy has won 23 awards from the Modern Drummer magazine. He has co-produced the last six Dream Theater albums with John Petrucci, starting from Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory. From A Change of Seasons onwards, Portnoy has been writing a substantial amount of Dream Theater's lyrics, filling the void left by Kevin Moore, who left the band after the release of Awake.

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Oceans

There are (6) artists with the artist name OCEANS: (1)Oceans were a post-rock, primarily instrumental band from Urbana and Chicago, Illinois formed in the fall of 2005 at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Oceans is Ryan Martin, Nick Wakim, Keith Marek, Mike Parkinson, and Luis Belorin. Oceans released a full length album, Nothing Collapses, in early 2009 on Copper Lung Records. Members have gone on to play in Cstvt and Victor! Fix The Sun
www.myspace.com/broceans --- (2)Oceans are an Hardcore/Progressive band based in Burlington, Ontario.

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Bossk

Bossk are a Kent based post-metal band. They released 2 albums (.1 and .2) and a DVD (.3), forming 'The Trilogy', post disbanding in 2008 a split EP was released with Rinoa, containing the new live track "Events Occur In Real Time". In early 2012 they announced they were reforming for a BBC Maida Vale session for Daniel P. Carter's Rock Show which would include new song 'Pick Up Artist', to be released as a free download from the bands website in September 2012.

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Crowned

1) Crowned. Atmospheric black metal from Australia.
released a demo in 2011, "Ainulindale", this is available from the band.
email crownedbmband@gmail.com to contact. 2) Crowned, a 3-piece metal band formed in 2004 in Saratoga Springs NY is composed of Sam (19,guitar) and Justin C(18, drums) and Justin W(19, guitar). They originally covered several songs under the name "Excoriated" and changed their name in early 2005. All of Crowned's discography is up for free download. Check their myspace at www.myspace.com/crownedmusic

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Daredevil

In mid 1998 the live music scene in Sydney, Australia sucked!! Rock bands were replaced by indie noodling and angst ridden grunge burnouts who would never admit to loving rock moves or monster lickage. The fools. It was around this time Troy Scerri, Charlie O'Neill and Dave Tomley began to assemble a band with a desire to play the kind of music they listened to at home, but found it impossible to find on the live circuit. They recruited the brutal Mark Mills and doom lord Jason Breitfuss and =DAREDEVIL= evolved.

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Atolah

Atolah is a Psychedelic Doom band formed in Perth, Australia in 2007. Pierre relocated to The Netherlands in 2011 and Leeroy and Zaheer were replaced with Marc and Geert. Influenced by Kyuss, Sleep and similar bands of the genre they deliver a great deal of pure heaviness. Lineup:
Pierre - Bass
Geert - Guitar
Marc - Drums Former:
Leeroy - Drums
Zaheer - Guitar
JB - Drums (on "Relics")
Rich - Guitar, Drums Releases:
Relics EP 2009
DRONING EARTH Vol. 31 Compilation

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