Fear Factory
Mike Heller became a member of what organization or association in 2012?
Mike Heller Mike Heller ( born January 17 , 1982 ) originally from Brooklyn , New York , is a drummer in bands including the industrial metal group Fear Factory , the technical death metal band Malignancy , and the British heavy metal band Raven . Heller also formed the band System Divide and is a session drummer with credits in many genres . Biography . Heller 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 . Heller 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 . Heller plays session drums and has collaborated with artists in disparate styles . He joined the Yonkers , New York-based technical death metal band Malignancy in 2003 , replacing Roger J . Beaujard . In 2008 , he started the band System Divide with the Aborted vocalist Sven de Caluwé and the ex-Distorted vocalist Miri Milman . Heller joined Fear Factory in 2012 after the departure of Gene Hoglan . Discography . - Fear Factory - Genexus ( 2015 ) - Aggression Continuum ( 2021 ) - Malignancy - Inhuman Grotesqueries ( 2007 ) - Eugenics ( 2012 ) - Epilogue ( 2014 ) - Malignant Future EP ( 2016 ) - Intrauterine Cannibalism Re-Recording ( 2019 ) - Raven - Screaming Murder Death From Above : Live In Aalborg ( 2019 ) - Metal City ( 2020 ) - Abigail Williams - Walk Beyond the Dark ( 2019 ) - Amahiru - Amahiru ( 2020 ) - 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 ) - Azure Emote - The Gravity of Impermanence ( 2013 ) - The Third Perspective ( 2020 ) - The Cosmos - Imbecile ( 2013 ) - In the Fire - The Living Horror Show ( 2020 ) - Beneath - Ephemeris ( 2017 ) - Excommunicated - Death Devout ( 2018 ) - Kalopsia - Death Starts the Horror ( 2011 ) - Amongst the Ruins ( 2012 ) - Zillah - Not All of Me Shall Die / Man Son of Swine ( 2011 ) Heller has also recorded with bands and artists including Edei , Ryann , 208 Talks of Angels , Measure , Control/Resist , Razorcult , Chikatillo , Pseudo Supremacy , Hollow , Death Dealer and Cryosaur .