Phil Demmel

Biography

Phil Demmel (born April 2, 1967) is an American musician who played lead guitar in the heavy metal band Machine Head between 2002 and 2018, making him their longest running member in that position. He has also performed with other artists such as Vio-lence, Torque, Metal Allegiance, BPMD, Kerry King and Category 7, and briefly with Slayer, Nonpoint, Overkill, Lamb of God and Testament as a fill-in guitarist.

Bio from Wikipedia

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

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  Made In Japan

  1972

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  The Blackening

  2007

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  Unto The Locust

  2011

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  Through The Ashes Of Empires

  2003

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  From Hell I Rise

  2024

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  Locust

  2011

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  Oppressing The Masses

  1990

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  Eternal Nightmare

  1988

Credited work

301 releases · 44 albums · active 1986–2025

• Other credits · 564
• Performance · 470
• Production · 4

Studios: Sharkbite Studios · Trident Studios, Pacheco · Chapel Studios · Machine Head's Jam Room

Frequent collaborators

• Machine Head (3)
• Vio-Lence
• Roadrunner United
• Torque (6)
• Violence
• Technocracy (2)
• Durbin
• Psychosomatic

Around the web

• Wikipedia