John Petrucci

John Peter Petrucci (born 12 July 1967) is an American guitarist best known as a founding member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater. He produced or co-produced, often with Mike Portnoy before Portnoy's absence from the band from 2010 to 2023, all of Dream Theater's albums beginning with "Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory" (1999). He has been the sole producer of the band's releases since "A Dramatic Turn of Events" (2011). Petrucci has also released two solo albums, "Suspended Animation" (2005) and "Terminal Velocity" (2020).