Leon del Muerte

{{Short description|American guitarist and vocalist (born 1977)}}

Leon del Muerte (born 1977) is a musician living in Portland, Oregon, USA. He is a guitarist, a vocalist, and also a founding member of the band Murder Construct.{{Cite web | url=https://antichristmagazine.com/interview-leon-del-muerte-impaled-terrorizer-la-murder-construct-by-carlamorton/ | title=Interview Leon del Muerte (Impaled, Terrorizer LA, Murder Construct) }} He is a guitarist in Terrorizer LA,{{Cite web | url=https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Leon_del_Muerte/4808 | title=Leon del Muerte - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives }} and Lightbreaker{{Cite web | url=https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Leon_del_Muerte/4808 | title=Leon del Muerte - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives }} vocalist in Impaled,{{Cite web | url=https://heavyhole.fireside.fm/leondelmuerte | title=In the Hole w/ Leon del Muerte (Impaled, Exhumed, Phobia, Lightbreaker) }} and he was previously involved with the bands Nails,{{Cite web|url=http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Nails/3540413151#band_tab_members|title=Nails - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives}} Exhumed, Nausea LA,{{Cite web|url=http://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Leon_del_Muerte/4808|title = Leon del Muerte - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives}} Intronaut,{{Cite web|url=http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Intronaut/36723#band_tab_members|title = Intronaut - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives}} Phobia,{{Cite web|url=http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Phobia/3104#band_tab_members|title = Phobia - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives}} and Artificium Sanguis.{{Cite web|url=http://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Leon_del_Muerte/4808|title = Leon del Muerte - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives}}

He is also the creator of 3 fonts; GoreFont-II, Solstice Of Suffering, and Incantation under the name Grave Tech.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fontspace.com/gravetech|title = GraveTech Fonts}}

Discography

=Demos=

  • Infanticide - Fetal Remains (demo cassette), 1993
  • Impaled - From Here to Colostomy (demo cassette), 1999
  • Artificium Sanguis - Ye Olde Demo Taype (demo CD), 2003
  • Intronaut - Null (Demo CD), 2005

=Albums=

  • Impaled - The Dead Shall Dead Remain (album CD), 2000 Necropolis Records
  • Exhumed - Garbage Daze Re-Regurgitated (album CD), 2005 Listenable Records
  • Intronaut - Void (album CD), 2006 Goodfellow Records
  • Phobia - 22 Random Acts of Violence (album CD), 2008 Willowtip
  • D.I.S. (Destroyed In Seconds) - Critical Failure (album CD), 2010 Deep Six Records
  • Exhumed - All Guts, No Glory (album CD), 2011 Relapse Records
  • Murder Construct - Results (album CD), 2012 Relapse Records
  • Impaled - The Dead Still Dead Remain (album CD), 2013 Willowtip
  • Nausea (LA) - Condemned to the System (album CD), 2014 Willowtip
  • Phobia - Lifeless God (album CD), 2017 Willowtip
  • Lightbreaker - The Annihilation of the Annealds (album CD), 2023 Self-released

=EPs=

  • Pale Existence / Exhumed - Blood & Alcohol (7" split), 1996
  • Impaled / Cephalic Carnage (7" split), 1999
  • Impaled / Engorged (7" split), 2000
  • Impaled - Choice Cuts (Extended Play CD), 2001 Necropolis Records
  • Black Ops / Leng Tch'e - "Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body" (7" split)
  • Intronaut - Null: Extended Play Compact Disc (Extended Play CD), 2005 Goodfellow Records
  • Exhumed / Ingrowing - Something Sickened This Way Comes (7" split), Obscene Productions
  • Intronaut - The Challenger (Extended Play CD), 2007 Goodfellow Records
  • Phobia / Extinction of Mankind - Fearing the Dissolve of Humanity (Extended Play CD), 2008 Agipunk
  • Phobia / Gadget (7" split), 2010 Power It Up
  • Murder Construct - s/t (Extended Play CD), 2010 Relapse Records
  • Nails - I Don't Want to Know You/Endless Resistance (7" record), 2019 Nuclear Blast Records

=Compilations=

  • Exhumed - Chords of Chaos (CD), 1997
  • Impaled - Requiems Of Revulsion: A Tribute To Carcass (CD), 2001
  • Exhumed - Platters of Splatter: A Cyclopedic Symposium Of Execrable Errata And Abhorrent Apocraphya 1992-2002 (CD), 2004 Relapse Records
  • Murder Construct - Tribute to Disrupt (CD), 2014

=Recorded guest appearances=

  • American Heritage - Sedentary (guest bass guitar) 2011
  • Aspirate Coma - Serene Transcendence through Corporal Disfigurement (guest vocals) 2020
  • Bent Sea - Instagrind (guitar solo/vocals) 2020
  • Cartilage - The Deader the Better (guest guitar solo) 2022
  • Contrition - Broken Mortal Coil (guest guitar solo) 2021
  • Daggra - Setsuna (guest vocals) 2018
  • Dekapitator - We Will Destroy... You Will Obey!!! (guest vocals) 1999
  • Evil Entourage - Into the Void (guest guitar solo) 2018
  • Exhumed - In the Name of Gore (guest vocals) 1996
  • Exhumed - Slaughtercult (guest vocals) 2000
  • Houkago Grind Time - Bakyunsified (Moe to the Gore) (guest guitar solo) 2020
  • I Klatus - Kether (guest vocals, guitar) 2013
  • Merrow - Nasum EP (guest vocals) 2021
  • Merrow - Mojave Repressions (guest vocals) 2022
  • Morbosidad - Morbosidad (guest vocals) 2000
  • Negative Vortex - Tomb Absolute (guest guitar solos) 2023
  • Zous - No Ground to Give (guest guitar solo) 2022

Miscellaneous

=Videos=

  • Murder Construct - Red All Over
  • Murder Construct - The Next Life
  • Dreaming Dead - Overlord

=Live guest appearances=

  • Dreaming Dead - bass guitar
  • Exhumed - bass guitar
  • Nails (band) - guitar

References