John LeCompt
John LeCompt (born March 10, 1973) is an American musician. He is lead guitarist for the alternative rock band Evanescence, and has been part of the Little Rock heavy metal scene since the late 90's.
Roots
His first commercial effort was in a band he put together called Mindrage. He pulled double duty as lead vocalist and lead guitarist. He enlisted Nick Williams to play bass and Chad Wilburn to play drums. Together in June of 1998 they recorded the album Sown In Weakness, Raised In Power. For their second album, (a collaboration with the band Nailed Promise) Justin Carder (now with Hap Hazard) took over on drums.Some time later John joined forces with the guitarist for Living Sacrifice, Rocky Gray, and together created a band called Kill System. They got Chad Moore from Soul Embraced to play bass, and Lance Garvin the former drummer from Living Sacrifice as the drummer. The Kill System project has still had no official distribution deal, but the time may come when John & Rocky still move forward with it. Kill System is much more melodic than John's other heavy metal efforts which makes this a big fan favorite.John joined Rocky one more time with the band he played lead guitar for called Soul Embraced. John is the featured vocalist on the song "Seems Like Forever" on the 2003 album Immune.
Evanescence
After Wind-Up Records signed Evanescence, they turned to some old friends from Little Rock to fill out the spots in the band for when they began to tour. John joined as the second guitarist and Rocky joined as the drummer. On Evanescence major label debut Fallen, John even had part in writing the song "Taking Over Me". The duet "Bring Me To Life" on Fallen was made with Paul McCoy from 12 Stones, but since recording John has performed the vocal parts on "Bring Me To Life," giving the song an edge you can trace right back to his roots in the Little Rock metal scene.
Mourningside
John recently became involved in a side project, the band Mourningside. For more info go to http://www.mourningsideonline.com or http://www.myspace.com/mourningside
Guitar Effects
In an interview John answered:"The only effects that I use are some delay and reverb... sometimes a little tremolo and wah. I only use it on my clean channel. My metal channel is all metal, all the time. No stinking effects there."