This is a Matt Uelmen FAN SITE!
Matt Uelmen is a dark ambient musician based in Los Angeles, California. He is best known for his work on various computer games for Blizzard Entertainment from 1996 to 2007. He is currently employed at the Runic Games, where he is believed to be working on the music for “Torchlight”. Among his best known work is “Into Town” (often mistakenly called “Tristram”, which is a later piece for “Diablo II”), a piece created as atmospheric music for the town of Tristram from the 1997 game “Diablo”.
Matt was born in July 31, 1973 in the South Bay area of greater Los Angeles. Almost all of his formal training in music came through piano lessons from Lenée Bilski from the ages of 6 to 13, which were discontinued when his family moved to San Jose, California during his high school years. Matt is largely self-taught as a multi-instrumentalist and orchestrator, with a familiarity with instruments in the keyboard, guitar, flute and percussion families. Most of his performance experience is on the keyboard, though the piece most associated with him, “Tristram” or “Towne” from the Diablo series of computer games, features his playing on 12-string guitar and flute.
This series of games was the core creation of his employer, Condor Inc (later renamed Blizzard North), where he worked for 11 years. This series is estimated to have collectively sold over twenty million copies and, more remarkably, was still on the shelves at major retailers over a decade after the release of the original “Diablo” and seven years after the release of the final installation in the series, “Diablo II: Lord of Destruction”.
Matt Uelmen
Works
* Torchlight (2009), Runic Games
* Torchlight II (2012), Runic Games
* World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (2007), Blizzard Entertainment
* Diablo II: Lord of Destruction (2001), Blizzard Entertainment
* Diablo II (2000), Blizzard Entertainment
* StarCraft (1998), Blizzard Entertainment
* Diablo (1997), Blizzard Entertainment
* Justice League Task Force (1995), Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.
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Dude – I have been fascinated by your music – and in particular Diablo Town for years. I just learned that you were the creator of the piece. It’s excellent not only technically speaking, but also because it conjures the image of dark fantasy perfectly. You rock!
Best,
Nick
Matt, please come back to Diablo III
The game is bad without you, we need you as a componist, your music is great and your a part of the series :/
Marius is right! You must come back to DIII, diablo isn’t diablo without you!