James Franklin Murphy is an American guitarist, best known for having been a member of the bands Death , Obituary, and Testament . He has released several albums of his solo project, which bears his name. James also founded the death metal band Disincarnate in 1992. In 2001 he was diagnosed with a brain tumor, from which he quickly recovered. He is currently working on a tribute album to Chuck Schuldiner , founder of the band Death, who died of pneumonia, due to complications in the treatment of a brain tumor. James Murphy is also a producer for the band World Under Blood., which is a project of Deron Miller, the CKY guitarist, as well as having produced the recent works of Dååth ( The Hinderers ) and Lazarus AD’s debut album , The Onslaught , released through Roadrunner Records and Metal. Blade Records respectively.

Murphy is also a music producer, in addition to being a guitarist, and usually works at SafeHouse Production, where work for many bands is produced. Murphy also contributes to some guitar learning magazines with some lessons.

Discography:

Disincarnate

• Dreams of the Carrion Kind

Death

• Spiritual Healing

Obituary

• Cause of Death

Cancer

• Death shall rise

Testament

• Low
• Live at the Fillmore
• The Gathering

Konkhra

• Weed out the Weak
• The Freakshow
• Come Down Cold
• Nothing is sacred

In solitary

• Convergence (1996)
• Feeding the Machine (1999)

Like invited

• Abigail Williams – In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns – (Producer, Guitar Solo on “The World Beyond” and Whammy on “Smoke and Mirrors”)
• The Absence – Riders of the Plague (2 tracks)
• Agent Steel – (live)
• Agressor – Medieval Rites (guitar solo on one track)
• Agressor – The Spirit of Evil (3 tracks)
• Artension – Into the Eye of the Storm (guitar solo on one track)
• Artension – Phoenix Rising (guitar solo on one track)
• Artension – Forces of Nature (4 guitar solos)
• Broken Hope – Repulsive Conception (guitar solo on one track)
• Cannae – When Gold Becomes Sacrifice (guitar solo on one track)
• DÅÅTH – The Hinderers (guitar solo on one track)
• Demise – Torture Garden (guitar solo on one track)
• Explorers Club – Age of Impact
• Enforsaken – The Forever Endeavor (guitar solo on one track)
• Firewind – Forged by Fire (guitar solo on one track)
• Foreign Objects – Universal Culture Shock (guitar solo on one track)
• Gorguts – Considered Dead (guitar solo from inoculated life)
• Malevolent Creation – Retribution (guitar solo on one track)
• Malevolent Creation – The Will to Kill (guitar solo on two tracks)
• Martriden – The Unsettling Dark (guitar solo on one track)
• Memorain – White Line (5 solos)
• Only Human – The Dismantling (guitar solo on the song ‘Winter and the Dancing Leeches’)
• Steve Morse – Prime Cuts (one solo)
• Nevermore – This Godless Endeavor (Only on the song “The Holocaust of Thought”)
• Rob Van Der Loo’s Freak Neil inc. – Characters (3 alone)
• Solstice – Solstice (4 solos and additional voices)
• Summon – … And the Blood Runs Black (keyboards, acoustic and electric guitars)
• Various – Roadrunner United – Annihilation by the Hands of God (solo), Constitution Down (solo intro)
• Various – Working Man – A Tribute To Rush (rhythm guitar / lead and keyboards on 5 songs)
• Vicious Rumors – Sadistic Symphony (single)
• John West – Mind Journey (un solo)
• John West – Permanent Mark (un solo)
• Warrel Dane – Praises to the War Machine (solo de guitarra en la canción “The Day the Rats Went to War”)
• World Under Blood – solos de guitarra en la canción “Under the Autumn Low” junto con Deron Miller
• Rise – Pentagtramnation (solo de guitarra en la canción Opus Requiem, productor del álbum).

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Past Members:

Steve DiGiorgio	Bass
See also: Act of Denial, Charred Walls of the Damned, Futures End, Geoda, Gone in April, Itself, Johnny Newman, Mythodea, Spirits of Fire, Synesis Absorption, Terra Odium, Testament, ex-Control Denied, Bassists Alliance Project, Devil’s Highway, Quadvium, Death DTA (live), ex-Anatomy of I, ex-Artension, ex-Beltfed Weapon, ex-Dragonlord, ex-Faust, ex-Memorain, ex-Painmuseum, ex-Sadus, ex-Sebastian Bach, ex-SMRT, ex-Obituary (live), ex-Obscura (live), ex-Death, ex-Ephel Duath, ex-Dark Hall, ex-Soen, ex-Suicide Shift
Brad Russell	Bass
Deen Castronovo	Drums
See also: ex-Hawaii, Gioeli/Castronovo, Journey, Restless Spirits, Revolution Saints, ex-Dr. Mastermind, ex-Joey Tafolla, ex-Marty Friedman, ex-Of Gods & Monsters, ex-Ozzy Osbourne, ex-Geezer, ex-Cacophony, ex-Malice, ex-Wild Dogs, ex-Bad English, ex-Hardline, ex-Matthew Ward, ex-Planet Us, ex-Social Distortion, ex-Soul SirkUS, ex-Steve Vai, ex-The Dead Daisies, ex-The Enemy, ex-Foreigner (live), ex-Night Ranger (live), ex-Paul Rodgers (live)

Line-Up:

James Murphy	Guitars, Songwriting (tracks 1-5, 7-9), Lyrics (track 5)
Brad Russell	Bass
Deen Castronovo	Drums