Band Members

The Revolving Chair

Lead Guitar

“The lead guitar players change,” as Steve Murphy puts it — and they always have. More people have held this one chair than have played every other instrument in the band combined.

Cameron Fisher Current

2026 · Trenchsweeper

The lead guitarist playing with Rotting Corpse now.

Scott Shelby

1990, 2024–2026, and guest appearances · Gammacide, Warbeast

Played the leads on the 1990 demo — the record several members still call the band’s best — without ever attending a practice or playing a show. He finally shared a stage with them nearly twenty years later, at a benefit in Fort Worth.

Fig Newton Farr

2025–2026 · Harvester

Held the lead guitar chair through the run of shows around the release of Thrash in Pain or Die Insane.

The Rest Of The Story

Past Members

Everyone else who has played in Rotting Corpse across four decades, in the order they turned up.

John Perez

Lead guitar, 1985–1987 · Founding member

Answered Walt’s ad in an Arlington music store and helped start the band. Left in 1987 to found Solitude Aeturnus, the group he still fronts. He has guested with Rotting Corpse a handful of times since, but he is not in the band.

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Jim "Moe" Mulqueen

Vocals, 1986–1987 · Founding member

Walt’s fellow Pantera roadie and the band’s first voice, on the 1986 demo. He still turns up to sing at reunion shows.

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Dave Gryder

Drums, 1986–1987 and 1989–1990 · Founding member · Blood of the Sun

Met Moe Mulqueen at Savvy’s in Arlington, found they liked the same records, and set up a rehearsal. He played the first demo, came back to play the last one, and went on to Blood of the Sun.

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Louie Carrisalez

Drums, 1987 · Devastation, Death, Helldogs

Came over from San Antonio’s Helldogs and cut the second demo with Walt and Steve about a month after they started playing together. He later fronted Death as vocalist on the 1990 European tour — the same run Walt played guitar on.

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Luke Brewer

Lead guitar, 1988–1990, 2005–2009 · R.I.P.

Joined in 1988 and put fresh leads on the salvaged pieces of the third demo. Steve Murphy has said Luke called him nearly every day for twenty years, and he was in the room for the 2004 jam that brought the band back.

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Roger Gallardo

Guitar, 1987 · Hellpreacher

Came down from San Antonio to fill John Perez’s spot, and played the Dark Angel dates that summer.

Mando Tovar

Bass, 1987 · Las Cruces

One of the bassists who covered the gap after Steve Murphy’s first departure.

Jim Cleaver

Bass, 1986

Marty Griffen

Bass, 1986

This list comes straight from the band — it replaces the guesswork that used to sit on this page. If you played a show with Rotting Corpse and you’re not on it, tell us and we’ll fix it.