Mike Heller
Drummer

Mike Heller

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17 January 1982(Brooklyn)
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Mike Heller (born January 17, 1982) originally from Brooklyn, New York, is a drummer in bands including industrial metal group Fear Factory and technical death metal band Malignancy. Mike also formed the band System Divide and is a session drummer with credits in many genres.

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Heller studied the drums at the Collective School of Music in New York City. He traces his musical and drumming influences across many genres, including gospel, Latin jazz, and funk. He has been known to incorporate these styles into his death metal compositions, although they can be difficult to recognize when played at death metal tempos. Mike teaches current and aspiring extreme metal drummers and writes columns for Sick Drummer Magazine. He is known as a talented linear player, a style which involves the use of two or more limbs, with no two limbs playing at the same time. Mike plays session drums and has collaborated with artists in many disparate styles. He joined the Yonkers, NY-based technical death metal band Malignancy in 2003, replacing Roger J. Beaujard. In 2008, he started the band System Divide with Aborted vocalist Sven de Caluwé and ex-Distorted vocalist Miri Milman. Mike joined Fear Factory in 2012 after the departure of Gene Hoglan.

Discography

Heller performing with Fear Factory in 2013

Fear Factory

  • Genexus (2015)

Malignancy

  • Inhuman Grotesqueries (2007)
  • Eugenics (2012)
  • Epilogue (2014)

Ol Drake

  • Old Rake (2015)

Gorepunch

  • Give Em Hell (2015)

Control/Resist

  • Gods By Design (EP) (2014)

System Divide

  • The Collapse (EP) (2009)
  • The Conscious Sedation (2010)
  • Ephemera (2012)

Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky

  • The Grand Partition, and the Abrogation of Idolatry (2009)

Secrets She Kept

  • Le Fin Absolue du Monde (2011)

Kalopsia

  • Death Starts the Horror (2011)
  • Amongst the Ruins (2012)

Zillah

  • Not All of Me Shall Die / Man Son of Swine (2011)

Azure Emote

  • The Gravity of Impermanence (2013)

The Cosmos

  • Imbecile (2013)

Mike has also recorded in the studio with bands/artists including Abigail Williams, Excommunicated, Edei, Ryann, 208 Talks of Angels, Measure, Control/Resist, Razorcult, Chikatillo, Pseudo Supremacy, Hollow, Death Dealer, and Cryosaur among others.