From Akademia Award-winning producer, engineer, and songwriter to now backed with a full recording and live lineup, technical death metal shredder, Matt Miller, announces his signing to Exitus Strategm Records for the release of his seventh album, Fiber Tormentum, set for release on September 12.
Featuring many new elements with the collaborative efforts from Jordan Kelso (Drums, Synth), Justice Robinett (Bass), and Biko Wright (Vocals) joining Matt Miller (Guitars, Synth), Fiber Tormentu” is the heaviest, most melodic, and most technical music out of his catalog of six albums and two EPs since 2021.
“It’s got a lot to offer for the instrumental fans as well as new fans who want to hear the music with vocals and the unique things each of these musicians is bringing to the table. I think fans will be pleasantly surprised. Especially being the first release as a full band and having vocals. I heard from many fans that they really like the instrumental music but they would also really like to hear the tracks with vocals and see the live shows with a full band. Which I completely agree with,” says Miller.
Lyrically, Fiber Tormentum took shape as a loose concept album along the lines of Aliens wanting to take over our planet, and this time, they are changing human DNA to enslave humanity. The band has a strong Sci-Fi influence that is based on real-life events in their music.
Today, Matt Miller unveils the album’s trailer along with the album artwork for Fiber Tormentum created by metal brother, friend, and Voraath drummer and mastermind Joshua Nassaru Ward, who passed away earlier this year.
Album trailer:
Akademia-Award-winning producer, engineer, and songwriter Matt Miller side-steps these industry achievements to embark on something deeply introspective and personal: a transcendent, reactionary, and vile personage embodying soaring progressive melodies and captivating crushing rhythms that engulf the listener in black clouds of desperation and shimmering hope.
Drawing upon the gut-wrenching timed-precision of European death metal stalwarts Necrophagist and Spawn Of Possession, Matt Miller progressively blends this approach with deep synthetic and symphonic atmospheres like that of Devin Townsend, often arriving at surprisingly emotive and heart-clenching metallic passages like that of Rivers Of Nihil.
Calling upon other single-member death metal projects such as Putrid Pile or Insidious Decrepancy, the live performance can best be described as a reclaiming and repainting of the earth by a relentlessly sweeping and deranged berzerker appealing to the vast minions of the extreme music. The combination of elements within Matt Miller distills the traditions of the international metal realm, the progressive atmospheres of modernity, and reactions to a vile world into a single unrelenting persona of despair and vengeance.
Matt Miller’s first self-produced instrumental EP came in 2017, drawing on influences from classic metal bands such as Megadeth and Iron Maiden to shredders like Yngwie Malmsteen and Paul Gilbert while combining a technical death metal approach to create maximum-intensity music with a frenetic and frantic feel and ferocious atmosphere. Since then, and a few releases into this brief career, Matt Miller boasts 12,000 consistent monthly listeners on Spotify before hitting the international touring circuit. This was garnered from his 2017 EP, the 2021 self-released Decrepit Shed LP, the Reekomposer/Decomposer covers double LP, as well as the 8E’s’ 1980’s 1980s-themed covers LP.
In 2022 Matt released the formidable original instrumental LP Monument of Velocity on Blood Blast Distribution. Matt also toured supporting Rings of Saturn on the Cyber Shred Tour 2022. 29 shows encompassing the continental United States. Matt has released the cover LP Only What The Light Allows through Blood Blast Distribution.
In 2023, Matt assembled a full band consisting of drummer Jordan Kelso and bassist Justice Robinett, both of whom are world-class musicians. Soon after, Matt headed to Europe in support of death metal pioneers Possessed on their Oblivion Over Europe Tour. In 2024, Matt began writing a new instrumental LP. After completing the demos, it became abundantly clear that the new record required vocals. Thus, vocalist Biko Wright entered the fray, and the end result became the new LP Fiber Tormentum. Fiber Tormentum is a step forward and makes the bold statement that nothing will stop Matt from his campaign of musical devastation.
Matt Miller hails from the rain-soaked northern Oregon Coast, which is influenced by the natural foreboding environment. Moving into the present, Matt Miller has joined up with Extreme Management Group to spread a singularly relentless auditory mind-bend.
(Photo – Lilly May Everett)
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Featuring many new elements with the collaborative efforts from Jordan Kelso (Drums, Synth), Justice Robinett (Bass), and Biko Wright (Vocals) joining Matt Miller (Guitars, Synth), Fiber Tormentu” is the heaviest, most melodic, and most technical music out of his catalog of six albums and two EPs since 2021.
“It’s got a lot to offer for the instrumental fans as well as new fans who want to hear the music with vocals and the unique things each of these musicians is bringing to the table. I think fans will be pleasantly surprised. Especially being the first release as a full band and having vocals. I heard from many fans that they really like the instrumental music but they would also really like to hear the tracks with vocals and see the live shows with a full band. Which I completely agree with,” says Miller.
Lyrically, Fiber Tormentum took shape as a loose concept album along the lines of Aliens wanting to take over our planet, and this time, they are changing human DNA to enslave humanity. The band has a strong Sci-Fi influence that is based on real-life events in their music.
Today, Matt Miller unveils the album’s trailer along with the album artwork for Fiber Tormentum created by metal brother, friend, and Voraath drummer and mastermind Joshua Nassaru Ward, who passed away earlier this year.
Album trailer:
Akademia-Award-winning producer, engineer, and songwriter Matt Miller side-steps these industry achievements to embark on something deeply introspective and personal: a transcendent, reactionary, and vile personage embodying soaring progressive melodies and captivating crushing rhythms that engulf the listener in black clouds of desperation and shimmering hope.
Drawing upon the gut-wrenching timed-precision of European death metal stalwarts Necrophagist and Spawn Of Possession, Matt Miller progressively blends this approach with deep synthetic and symphonic atmospheres like that of Devin Townsend, often arriving at surprisingly emotive and heart-clenching metallic passages like that of Rivers Of Nihil.
Calling upon other single-member death metal projects such as Putrid Pile or Insidious Decrepancy, the live performance can best be described as a reclaiming and repainting of the earth by a relentlessly sweeping and deranged berzerker appealing to the vast minions of the extreme music. The combination of elements within Matt Miller distills the traditions of the international metal realm, the progressive atmospheres of modernity, and reactions to a vile world into a single unrelenting persona of despair and vengeance.
Matt Miller’s first self-produced instrumental EP came in 2017, drawing on influences from classic metal bands such as Megadeth and Iron Maiden to shredders like Yngwie Malmsteen and Paul Gilbert while combining a technical death metal approach to create maximum-intensity music with a frenetic and frantic feel and ferocious atmosphere. Since then, and a few releases into this brief career, Matt Miller boasts 12,000 consistent monthly listeners on Spotify before hitting the international touring circuit. This was garnered from his 2017 EP, the 2021 self-released Decrepit Shed LP, the Reekomposer/Decomposer covers double LP, as well as the 8E’s’ 1980’s 1980s-themed covers LP.
In 2022 Matt released the formidable original instrumental LP Monument of Velocity on Blood Blast Distribution. Matt also toured supporting Rings of Saturn on the Cyber Shred Tour 2022. 29 shows encompassing the continental United States. Matt has released the cover LP Only What The Light Allows through Blood Blast Distribution.
In 2023, Matt assembled a full band consisting of drummer Jordan Kelso and bassist Justice Robinett, both of whom are world-class musicians. Soon after, Matt headed to Europe in support of death metal pioneers Possessed on their Oblivion Over Europe Tour. In 2024, Matt began writing a new instrumental LP. After completing the demos, it became abundantly clear that the new record required vocals. Thus, vocalist Biko Wright entered the fray, and the end result became the new LP Fiber Tormentum. Fiber Tormentum is a step forward and makes the bold statement that nothing will stop Matt from his campaign of musical devastation.
Matt Miller hails from the rain-soaked northern Oregon Coast, which is influenced by the natural foreboding environment. Moving into the present, Matt Miller has joined up with Extreme Management Group to spread a singularly relentless auditory mind-bend.
(Photo – Lilly May Everett)
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