Adrenaline Mob at the Best Buy Theater

Mike Orlando & Russell Allen

Adrenaline Mob is a heavy metal supergroup formed in 2011 by vocalist Russell Allen (Symphony X), guitarist Mike Orlando and drummer Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater). With the addition of bassist Paul Di Leo (Fozzy), and rhythm guitarist Rich Ward (Stuck Mojo/Fozzy), Adrenaline Mob performed its first live performance in New York in 2011. Ward and Di Leo left in 2012 and Portnoy left in 2013, all due to scheduling conflicts with their other commitments. Adrenaline Mob is presently Allen, Orlando, bassist Erik Leonhardt and drummer A. J. Pero of Twisted Sister. The band's second album, Men of Honor, was released on February 18, 2014.

Adrenaline Mob was among the artists performing a fundraiser concert tonight at the Best Buy Theater for the Pinkburst Project for Uveitis Research, in association with the Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Foundation. Adrenaline Mob opened with some fierce rhythms and guitar licks before Allen came on stage wearing a black leather sports jacket, fedora and sunglasses. He worked the audience for a few moments and then began singing "The Mob Is Back," setting the tone for a raucous evening of hard hitting rock and roll. In time, he removed his hat and shades, as his singing grew grittier, gruffer and huskier, matching the muscular ruggedness of the ripping music. As the sole guitarist, Orlando was about settling the crunch riffs and then extending flashy guitar licks on "Dearly Departed", "Hit the Wall", "Let It Go" and "Come On Get Up" and other tunes. Towards the end of the set, Jeff Scott Soto, the lead singer of Talisman from 1990 to 2007 and the vocalist on Yngwie Malmsteen's first two albums, came onstage with the band to help sing a cover of the Black Sabbath's "The Mob Rules." Adrenaline Mob's performance was as dynamic as it was incendiary.

Visit Adrenaline Mob at www.adrenalinemob.com.