About Us

URM Academy was founded by producers Eyal LeviJoey Sturgis and Joel Wanasek. Combined, they’ve produced, engineered, mixed and mastered 100+ albums by bands like The Devil Wears Prada, Attila, The Contortionist, The Black Dahlia Murder, Of Mice & Men, Asking Alexandria, Ice Nine Kills, Machine Head, and dozens more.

Separately, they’d built companies to help the next generation of metal producers learn the craft like Joey Sturgis TonesDrumforge, and Eyal’s work with CreativeLive. And after crossing paths a few times over the years and realizing how much they had in common they decided to join forces, and in 2015, URM Academy was born.

Nail The Mix

Get a new session every month from a world-class band, and access to the livestream where the producer mixes the song from scratch and explains exactly how they did it

URM Enhanced

250+ hours of in-depth tutorials for modern metal producers

Riffhard

The world’s best online lessons for modern metal guitarists