Mike Miczek has been playing drums with Chicago, Illinois-based death metal band Broken Hope since 2012.



Mike started playing drums at an early age, after seeing The Beatles' movie 'A Hard Days Night' he knew he wanted to be behind a set of drums! Mike Miczek's first drum kit was an old mid-sixties maple Ludwig in Pink Champagne Sparkle picked up at a garage sale. By the time Mike was 13 he was playing in jazz band, symphonic band and marching Band during the school week and in a youth orchestra playing classical music and jamming in cover bands on the weekends. Recalls the drummer: "I managed to work my way up from Bass #4 my Freshman year all the way to lead snare and Drum Captain my senior year. I credit a lot of the chops I have now from busting my ass on the marching field for four years."



It was also around this time that a good friend of his got Mike into two bands named Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden. It was all down hill from there. Mike: "By the time I was in high school I had an enormous 8 piece double bass Pearl Export drum set, and started my own Thrash band named Vicious."



Factoid: Mike Miczek is also a huge craft beer aficionado.