Mike Portnoy

”I am overwhelmed with joy to be returning home and reuniting with my brothers!,” Portnoy says.

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Members of Machine Head, Testament, Artificial Brain, and more have paid tribute to the late Black Dahlia Murder frontman.

Smashing Pumpkins, Slash, Steve Albini, Gene Simmons, Tom Morello, Nile Rodgers, Machine Gun Kelly, Billy Idol, Garbage, Jimmy Eat World, Lars Ulrich, Stevie Nicks, Joan Jett, and many more also paid tribute to the late Foo Fighters drummer.

Tributes have come in from members of Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Pantera, Code Orange, HEALTH, Testament, Thundercat, Knocked Loose, Screaming Females, Korn, Jane’s Addiction, and many others…

Tune-Yards, Modeselektor, Cloud Nothings, Vernon Reid, Béla Fleck, Fire-Toolz, Lupe Fiasco, Sheila E, Eddie Palmieri, Pharoahe Monch, Mike Portnoy, and more have also paid tribute to the jazz fusion great.

Charlie Benante (Anthrax), Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters), Carmine Appice, and many more all-star drummers are also involved.

Geezer Butler, Glenn Hughes, Slash, Tom Morello, Nikki Sixx, Greg Dulli, and many other musicians have paid tribute to the rock legend…

Many artists have criticized Spotify CEO Daniel Ek for saying “you can’t record music once every three to four years and think that’s going to be enough.”

Emitt Rhodes, singer songwriter, onetime frontman of ’60s baroque pop group The Merry-Go-Round and known as “The One Man Beatles,” has died. He was 70. Read tributes from fellow artists.