User:Matttucker66

Early Life \ Music
Matt Tucker was born November 7, 1995. Matt grew up around music and art from his family. He grew up in a atmosphere of grunge and heavy metal, as well as classical and blue grass from his grandfather. HIs father Daniel was a musician as well. He played in bands "Bonehead'" and "2x4'' and guessed appeared in Octoberfest in Germany 2001.

Matt's music career started in 2007, when he and a few of friends decided to start a band. They called themselves, Damage, Inc. They broke up in 2008 when guitarist Joel Clemmons and drummer Justin Loveday were having disputes and left the band. Matt hired guitarist Sam Morgan,aka: "Jew Fro." He also hired vocalist Ben Brooks to sing lead vocals and play keyboard for them. This was the beginning of Minoan Shadow.

Minoan Shadow
Matt is the founder \ drummer\ back-up vocalist for Minoan Shadow. Matt founded the band with Joel Clemmons, Justin Loveday, and Jordan Loveday (originally called, "Damage, Inc.") Matt and Sam Morgan (2008-present) write most of the band's songs. Most being about ancient warfare or mental insanity. 

Music inspirations
Matt has been around many bands his life such as, White Zombie and Alice in Chains. But, his influences are mainly drummers from the 80's thrash scene such as, "NIcko McBrain (Iron Maiden)" and "Gar Samuelson (Megadeth 1984-1986.)"