Mike Leon is an American bass player from Tampa, Florida, part of melo-death outfit The Absence since 2007. Mike also played in the Denver thrash metal band Havok on the Unnatural Selection album and tour cycle from 2013 to 2015. He then joined Soulfly in late 2015 and recorded the Ritual album in 2018. Mike has also been performing live with Max and Iggor Cavalera, playing songs from the Sepultura albums 'Beneath The Remains and Arise since 2018. He is recently featured on the song Paranoid Bulldozer Italiano by French break-core group Igorrr on the Spirituality And Distortion album, released March 27, 2020.