Matt Miller “Graveyard Full of Hearts”

“I love playing live,” Miller says, smiling as he recalls shows his high school power trio Shred Rot played. “We captured a feel of pure raw energy.  We just got on stage and gave it our all. Our shows were wild! A lot of our fans – our posse – were like us, outcasts, who came to our shows to express themselves.”

Those feelings of loneliness and not belonging are emotions Matt could relate to big-time. That was pretty much the story of his first three years in high school. “I was very introverted, I didn’t talk to many people.”

One of the upsides of his down years, Matt would later realize, was that those tough times helped him craft his music into songs that a whole lot of folks can relate to.

Matt then gets to the core of his message. “Popular music today has lost a part of its rebelliousness,” he states. “It can be very corporate and industrialized losing much of its artistic aspect. In my writing process, I’m about real; the melody and the story simply find me.” Matt says.

“Matt came to me because he was no longer being challenged in Cleveland,” says Sharon Dennis, his manager since his high school graduation. “He wanted to diversify his talent. I strongly agree with Matt that artists must be real. When I first reviewed Matt’s music from his Punk Rock band, I heard a tremendous believability in his writing, in his delivery as a vocalist, and as a performing artist,”