Guitar demon Metal Mike Chlasciak is without doubt one of the most hard working and respected Heavy Metal guitarists of today's generation. Metal Mike is most commonly known as the guitarist who helped JUDAS PRIEST vocalist ROB HALFORD reclaim and hold his status as the true Metal God. Metal Mike is the guitarist for Rob Halford's endeavor HALFORD. Metal Mike has written and appeared on all Halford Metal-is/ Sanctuary Records label recordings Resurrection (2000), Live Insurrection (2001), Crucible (2002) and Fourging The Furnace (2003). Well past a million units sales mark, above efforts thrust Metal Mike into the international spotlight.

Metal Mike toured the world several times over with Halford along Iron Maiden, Queensryche and many more. Frequently sold out festivals, headlining stadiums with Slayer, a sold out date at Madison Square Garden in 2000 and the famous Rock In Rio Festival in Brazil with over 350,000 people in attendance; where only few of the highlights spotlighting what many consider to be one of the premiere Metal bands in the world. And who could forget the night when Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson, Queensryche's Geoff Tate and The Metal God himself annihilated London's Astoria when all 3 singers performed The One You Love To Hate from Halford's Resurrection. Mike appears in MTV/ VH-1 videos Made In Hell, Cyberworld, Betrayal, In The Morning, Forgotten Generation and Speak The Name.

Metal Mike leads his own solo endeavor Metal Mike's PAINMUSEUM whose debut album Metal For Life enjoyed much attention and critical acclaim from the Metal community. Metal For Life has seen a worldwide 2005 release through Demolition Records via Universal Music Distribution/ UMVD. Metal For Life is mixed by Roy Z. (Judas Priest, Bruce Dickinson, Helloween, Halford) and the musician line-up features Metal Mike's Halford stage mate Bobby Jarzombek (Halford, Iced Earth, Sebastian Bach), Steve DiGiorgio (Testament, Sadus, Death) and vocal power demon Tim Clayborne. Metal Mike's PainmuseuM has toured internationally along Halford, Testament and Immortal to name a few. Rave reviews met the release across the globe with a prominent German publication HEAVY Oder Was? concluding PainmuseuM to be A band that finally delivered an album in the tradition of Pantera's Vulgar Display Of Power and Machine Head's Burn My Eyes. Any questions?

A scholarship graduate of Berklee College of Music, Metal Mike has released 3 solo instrumental albums Grind Textural Abstraction (1996), Territory: Guitar Kill!!, (2000) and The Spilling (2001).

During Rob Halford's return to Judas Priest, Mike has joined Bay Area Thrash legends TESTAMENT for a 2004 tour where the band hit major festivals all over Europe and Scandinavia, sharing bills with Alice Copper, Scorpions, Motorhead and Judas Priest. Mike concluded then an already stellar line-up of Chuck Billy, Eric Peterson, Steve DiGiorgio and Slayer/ Exodus drummer Paul Bostaph.

In 2005 Metal Mike has joined forces with SEBASTIAN BACH, the voice of multi-platinum SKID ROW. After successful European festival tours sharing bills with Motley Crue, Dio and Accept, Sebastian Bach armed with Metal Mike tapped producer Roy Z and entered California's famed Sound City Studio to record Sebastian's new studio release tentatively titled Angel Down. Angel Down is due out this year.

A lot earlier than some might have expected, Heavy Metal world received surprising news that Metal Mike once again has reunited with the Metal God for a new HALFORD studio album tentatively called Halford IV. In addition to the album, Metal Mike has appeared in the new 2006 HALFORD video Forgotten Generation from the Metal God Essentials Volume 1 release via Halford's own Metal God Entertainment. Metal God Entertainment has also brought us reissues of the now classic Halford albums as well as Silent Screams EP, Forgotten Generation single and the up-coming live DVD Halford - Live In Rio.

Mid 2006, Metal Mike's PAINMUSEUM delivered us another stellar release You Have The Right To Remain Violent, an enhanced EP released exclusively via Mike's own imprint C.M.M. Entertainment. Remaining of 2006 saw Metal Mike as busy as ever. Immediately after concluding PAINMUSEUM's headlining East Coast Violence 2006 tour, Mike has joined SEBASTIAN BACH on the Japanese festival tour along Kiss, Alice In Chains, Godsmack, Steve Vai and the arena ridden sold-out GUNS N' ROSES North American, Canadian and European trek where Axl Rose himself has invited the SEBASTIAN BACH band as the support. Reaching in total over 900,000 people and stopping at the sold-out venues of London's Wembley Arena and New York City's Madison Square Garden, the tour was among the highest grossing and attended of 2006.