Jason Charles Miller

Jason Charles Miller is an American musician, singer and songwriter known for his solo career as well as being the lead vocalist and guitarist of the industrial rock band Godhead. He is a voice actor, appearing in various animation and video games. He is also part of the duo The Deadly Grind, and the duo RezoDrone, which has rose to fame for being featured in the acclaimed videogame Cyberpunk 2077. He has released solo albums in the country music, southern rock and Americana genres.

Early life
In 1977, at the age of 5, Miller moved with his family to Clifton, Virginia where he would spend the remainder of his youth. Miller began singing opera music and playing the guitar while young, and began performing when he was six. He has three stepbrothers and one stepsister.

Career
Miller is the frontman and founder of the industrial rock band Godhead which was the only band signed to Marilyn Manson's Posthuman Records. Under Posthuman Records, Godhead released their fourth studio album 2000 Years of Human Error, which has sold over 100,000 copies in the United States. While a member of Godhead, Miller toured the world alongside acts like Marilyn Manson, Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath, Disturbed, GWAR, Slipknot, Rammstein, Linkin Park, and Jonathan Davis of Korn. In 2002, Godhead's song "Penetrate" was re-released as a part of the Queen of the Damned soundtrack under Warner Music Group. The song earned Miller a Gold record. The band has sold over 250,000 albums worldwide.

In 2004, Miller collaborated with Ben Moody and Jason Jones of Drowning Pool for the song "The End Has Come", which appeared on the soundtrack of the film The Punisher. Miller has also appeared on multiple Cleopatra Records tribute albums along with Julian Beeston, formerly of Nitzer Ebb. Miller's music was featured in the pilot episode of Hung. He was asked by Bret Michaels to remix the Rock of Love theme song for the Poison frontman's Custom Built solo album.

After more than a decade as frontman of Godhead, Miller also began releasing music as a solo artist. On October 27, 2009, Miller released his first solo EP, Last to Go Home, under Count Mecha Music. The EP has been his first official venturing into the country music genre. On October 10, 2011, Miller released his first solo album, entitled Uncountry. Heavier than the previous EP, and featuring a full band, this album cemented his current status as southern rock artist. On July 3, 2012, a second full-length studio album followed, this time titled Natural Born Killer, under Count Mecha Music. In May 2012, Miller released the single "Up to Me". At that time, Miller's songwriting could also be heard on the WWE Smackdown theme song, "Hangman", which was recorded by (and co-written with) the rock band Rev Theory. In 2018, a third studio full-length came out, called In the Wasteland, published via Sony / Red Music and featuring guest appearances by Charlie Starr of Blackberry Smoke and Rickey Medlocke of Lynyrd Skynyrd. The album was then followed in 2021 with the double release From the Wreckage, collecting a series of previously unreleased tracks.

Throughout his career, Miller has been featured in magazines such as Rolling Stone, Billboard, Guitar World, and Inside Kung Fu. He has appeared on MTV, MTV2, Fuse TV, and VH1.

Miller relocated to Los Angeles in 2001, where he owns a recording studio and works as a recording artist, writer and producer, voice-over artist and actor. Splitting time between Los Angeles and Nashville, his love for country and blues music has intensified, as has the influence of those that have defined his musical roots: Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard, Fleetwood Mac, Bad Company. His first single, "You Get What You Pay For", was featured in the HBO hit series True Blood, and included appearances from Felicia Day and Greg Grunberg in its music video. The Uncountry music video features guests such as Robert Picardo and Grant Imahara.

As a voice actor, Miller has appeared in over 100 animated productions and video games. Some of his credits include work on World of Warcraft, Wonder Woman, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Hellsing, Read or Die and the Nickelodeon Nicktoon Avatar: The Last Airbender. His film credits include Danny Roane: First Time Director, the 2008 remake of Day of the Dead and the Sci Fi Channel's Battle Planet. He worked on a cover album from the fighting game series Guilty Gear, titled Guilty Gear XX in N.Y. Vocal Edition, where he supplied vocals over the instrumentals to create a full vocal album. In 2011, he lent his vocals to another cover album, this time for BlazBlue, the successive fighting game series to Guilty Gear, titles BlazBlue in L.A. Vocal Edition. He provided the voice of Robert Kendo in Capcom's video game Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles for the Wii. In 2011, he appeared in an episode of the web series The Guild. His voice can be heard in the digital collectible card game by Blizzard Entertainment, Hearthstone. Since 2017, he is part of the duo The Deadly Grind. In 2019, Miller was the co-lead singer for the song "Shadowbringers", the theme song for Final Fantasy XIV's third expansion of the same name; and then in 2020, he provided vocals for the game's song "To The Edge". In 2021, Miller contributed vocals to Final Fantasy XIV 's Endwalker expansion launch trailer music. In December of 2022, Miller was invited to Tokyo by Square Enix composer Masayoshi Soken, to perform in a series of Final Fantasy themed concerts with the Eorzean Symphony Orchestra. Other events have been scheduled for Las Vegas and London throughout 2023.

In 2021, Miller, along with Dylan Wilks, composed 8 original songs released in the video game album Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms: Bardic Inspiration Vol. 1. Miller, an avid supporter of tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs) such as Dungeons & Dragons, also appeared on several live-play streaming shows such as Critical Role and Sirens of the Realms, as well as the Amazon Prime series Starter Kit.

Godhead

 * America Now (1995 compilation)
 * Godhead (1996)
 * Nothingness (1997)
 * Powertool Stigmata (1998)
 * 2000 Years of Human Error (2001)
 * Evolver (2003)
 * Non-Stop Ride (2004 remix compilation)
 * The Shadow Line (2006)
 * Unplugged (2007 EP)
 * At the Edge of the World (2008)
 * The Shadow Re-Aligned (2014)

Solo

 * Last to Go Home (2009)
 * Uncountry (2011)
 * Natural Born Killer (2012)
 * In the Wasteland (2018)
 * UnDeadwood: Chapter I soundtrack (2019)
 * From the Wreckage - Part I (2021)
 * From the Wreckage - Part II (2021)
 * Cards on the Table (2023)

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Soundtrack

 * Rules of Nature (2013)
 * Red Sun (2013)

The Deadly Grind

 * Songs from Foreververse (2017)

Cyberpunk 2077 Radio

 * Resist and Disorder (2020)
 * Kill the Messenger (2020)
 * Reaktion (2021)

Singles

 * beLIEver (2023)

Appears on

 * Shadowbringers, To the Edge and Close in the Distance from Eorzean Symphony: FINAL FANTASY XIV Orchestral Album Vol.3 (2023)
 * Close in the Distance from ENDWALKER: FINAL FANTASY XIV Original Soundtrack (2022)
 * To the Edge from DEATH UNTO DAWN: FINAL FANTASY XIV Original Soundtrack (2021)
 * Shadowbringers and Insatiable from SHADOWBRINGERS: FINAL FANTASY XIV Original Soundtrack (2019) and SCIONS & SINNERS: FINAL FANTASY XIV ~ Arrangement Album (2021)