Artist description Misery Remains is a unique one-man, melodic/brutal death metal band. The guitars, bass, and vocals are performed and recorded on PC. The drums are created with virtual drum machine software. The music contains elements and influences of death, melodic death, black, and thrash metal.

Music Style Brutal/Melodic Death Metal

Musical Influences Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, Suffocation, Deicide, Satyricon, Pre-90's(real) Metallica, old Slayer, Obituary, ST, Believer, old Pantera

Artist History Misery Remains is Matt Arndt. Matt has played guitar in hardcore/punk, thrash, death metal, and melodic death metal bands, in that order, over the past 12 years. Simplex 12(1989) was a short-lived, hardcore/punk band playing originals and covers from The Misfits, Suicidal Tendencies, Murphy's Law, and Rush. Bewilder(1991-1993) was a thrash band playing originals and covers from pre-90's-Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Suicidal Tendencies, Sepultura, Pantera, and Iron Maiden. Remains(1994-1998) was a powerful, three-piece, thrash/death/groove brutal metal band playing primarily originals with a cover or two from Cannibal Corpse. Divine Misery(formed 1995, but joined in 1999 and disbanded 1999) was a melodic death metal band playing originals only. Misery Remains(2000-present) is Matt Arndt's current project.

Group Members Guitars, Bass, Vocals, Drum and MIDI sound programming - Matt Arndt

Press Reviews "A 9-song-demo released by a one man band!! Unbelievable, I must say!! Matt Arndt is the name of the assault behind the brutality and technical work on this demo. From the minute I placed it in my CD-player all the way until the end, this demo kept me completely occupied. The vocals are standard Death-growls, but it goes well with the music! The guitar work is technical and brutally heavy at times with some melodies thrown in at the right spots!! Now this release has songs ranging from four to nine and a half minutes long! So there is definitely enough material here to gobble up. When I listen to MISERY REMAINS, Chuck Schuldiner comes to mind, because of the technical guitars and the way the songs are structured. I have to say that this demo is better than 60% of the bands that I review!!! So Matt Arndt I give credit where credit is due, this is one hell of a fucking effort and I hope to see you get MISERY REMAINS on the go for future releases!!" -Alex from THE METAL OBSERVER webzine

Location Carlisle, PA - USA

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