Apollo: The ancient Greek and Roman God of music and poetry. Sons Of Apollo: The new supergroup featuring members of Dream Theater, Mr. Big, Guns N’ Roses, and Journey.

For the past few months, rumours have been circulating about a new secret project including former Dream Theater members Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian. Now, the time has come to make the grand and highly anticipated introduction to their new band, Sons Of Apollo.

Reuniting to form Sons Of Apollo, Portnoy and Sherinian have joined forces with Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (ex-Guns N’ Roses), Billy Sheehan (The Winery Dogs, Mr. Big, David Lee Roth) and Jeff Scott Soto (ex-Journey, ex-Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force). Their debut album, Psychotic Symphony, will be released on October 20th via InsideOutMusic/Sony Music.

Bassist Billy Sheehan recently spoke to Full Throttle Rock about his new musical endeavour; an excerpt follows:

"It was kept under wraps very effectively, right up until it was ready. We’ve made a pretty loud record, it’s top stuff. It took a lot of work to get this exactly right; it’s complicated but enjoyable music. It took a lot out of all of us to perform it really well, but we are very pleased with the record and very happy. I knew Jeff Scott Soto from when Talas opened for Yngwie J. Malmsteen in the summer of ’85 and he has been a dear friend of mine ever since and I’ve always wanted to work with him. I’ve known Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal for many years, turns out he’s a big Talas fan, he knows all the old Talas songs, and Mike Portnoy, Derek Sherinian and I have, of course, worked together on several projects. So coming together was an opportunity for all of us to play the type of music we love and for Mike and Derek to play together for the first time in a real band since Dream Theater; and they’re enjoying it very much. For me, any opportunity I get to play and perform live with guys of this stature is a good thing, so we’re very excited about doing live shows next year and the album Psychotic Symphony is due in October."

To read the complete interview, visit this location.