Deron John Miller (born May 21, 1976) is an American musician, record producer and actor. He is best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of West Chester-based heavy metal band CKY, which he co-founded in 1998. Prior to CKY, Miller performed in the band Foreign Objects with CKY drummer Jess Margera, and he has since formed death metal group World Under Blood.

Early life

Miller has stated that his first musical influence, at the age of three years, was Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley. He started taking guitar lessons at the age of eight, after "losing interest" in playing the piano, and was later influenced by death metal band Death, including vocalist Chuck Schuldiner and guitarist James Murphy, followed by "more extreme music ... and more underground musicians" such as Cynic, Pestilence and Malevolent Creation. He has described his first guitar as a "$50 piece of crap", noting that it was possibly J. C. Penney-branded, followed by an "imitation B.C. Rich" and, later, an Ibanez RG570 in 1992.