James Murphy Interview about the Spiritual Healing era of Death 

every album Murphy played on boosted those bands beyond compare...Obituary, Death, Cancer, Testament.

James and Chuck were magical together. Spiritual Healing is one of the best death metal albums of all time...then James went on to do Cause of Death with Obituary...2 phenomenal albums that James had a HUGE part in. His solos are unreal

James Murphy is a GOAT.

Spiritual Healing is a groundbreaking album. The first album that was brutal with exotic, melodic solos. It was a big deal. I bought the cassette in 1990, my first year of high school. This album raised the bar. There is no doubt. It is certainly within the top 10 death metal albums of all time. It gives me chills when i listen to that album, even so many years later. Spiritual Healing strikes a nerve musically in the best possible way.

Any album involving Murphy is GOLD \m/

The best Death album. Everything about this album from the vocals to the music is absolutely brutal.

Spiritual Healing is one of the more recent death albums I got in to. And it has by far my favorite guitar work. The solos are incredible. Murphy’s awesome on this album.

James Murphy if you're reading this, do you remember talking to me on RU-vid back when it was a social network? I insulted you unfairly and you called me out and we had an amazing conversation

Love Spiritual Healing. It's my favourite Death album. The songwriting is phenomenal. The production was one of the first records of its kind to sound "clearer and cleaner" - less reverb, which was a giant leap ahead in terms of production at the time - one of the first records of the time to sound actually produced. I have to say that Bill's drumming is one of the catchiest drumming ever. Bill really makes so much sense - his drumming is so considered, and melodic. The fact that the bass drum is really up high in the mix is such a joy to listen to, and a masterstroke I my opinion. We had already been primed for drier production and cleaner sounds with "...and justice for all". My two cents on this : if this line up continued and the next album has someone like Bob Rock on production, I think Death would have been one of the biggest metal bands on the planet. This is one of the best metal albums ever - with THE best line up ever. I must admit - that European tour with Kreator was the beginning of the end. Every European wanted to see Death and thought Kreator were not a world class band as Death were. To turn up and see the roadie singing on stage was unforgivable. The band at that point had cheapened the brand and ticket holders were burned.

I remember buying the cassette tape. It was my first Death album

That Testament Low album is a damn masterpiece.

Spiritual healing was the first death album I ever heard, I think it was back in 91 or 92. I got to meet Chuck in 95 in Cleveland Ohio at the old Peabody's down under which is not there now. I will never forget it. Such a humble man.

Thank you for uploading this. When I first heard JM's guitar riffs on the song Spiritual Healing I got a natural high I'll never forget. SH is the best fucking Death album.

Spiritual Healing was the first Death album I really really got into when it was released. Scream Bloody Gore and Leprosy not until later. This is a killer album.

Solos are great on this album, shout out to you James Murphy, keep fuckin that chicken 🐔

Good to hear your new Steve Digiorgio interview where he backs up James' claim that Chuck specifically got James Murphy because he was a more talented guitarist than himself. It's easy to look at the statements and say maybe he's building himself up, but Steve absolutely backs it up.

Absolutely excellent interview packed with information I never, ever knew about this era of DEATH.

I got to meet James once. In 2002 I flew from Oklahoma to Ohio for Ohio Death Fest and the night before in Cleveland they had a James Murphy benefit shit show so I had to make it there. Well the next day in Lorain for the Fest, James was just walking around chatting with people. He was still very sick at the time and you could tell he wasn’t feeling well at all but when he had a break and didn’t have a crowd around him I walked up and completely fan girled out on him. Hahaha! Normally you won’t get a great response but James was absolutely THE coolest guy of all time. We talked about music, life, family and just everything going on. He acted like the average Joe… We talked for HOURS that day. I’m so unbelievably glad he got better.

thanks for doing this and posting it, James Murphy sounds like the coolest dude

I bet Terry does not remember working with me at the Riverview flower farm when in the late eighties that dude was so friendly he didn't even curse such a clean long haired fellow, Me being a sabbath fan and a musician myself how can you not be friends with a dude named Terry butler love the memories of the time, never forget love forever ...Dr. Dan the lyric man

I grew up fairly sheltered and wasn't allowed to listen to death/extreme metal in my parents house... mid-late 90s. Came across Convergence in a CD store and bought it. Didn't know who James was, just loved the guitar work. Thought he was just some rando that put out a killer guitar album. As I got older and started getting familiar with the classics, I kept seeing his name on things, I was like well damn, that's who James Murphy is.

James is a legend

great James Murphy

Hell yes! I'm thankful I stumbled upon your channel yesterday when I saw you had a recent interview with former lead guitarist Rick Rozz, and that was a great, insightful interview from Rick talking about personal stories about him and Chuck that you wouldnt of heard or read anywhere else... it helped kinda lift the veil of how Chuck was and his personality along with Rick and other people because like I said there isn't like a bunch of footage of the band outside of concerts and there isn't very many like books or biographies on Chuck & Death that could shed some more light on who these guys were, and where were their heads back in those early days when creating these masterpieces of albums! Thanks for these interviews/videos!!

Man i always dreamed about a 2nd Death album with you 2 again!! You 2 are the greatest guiarists ever period!!! I will put u 2 against anyone!! I can only imagine what kind of song composition you guys could do today!! R.i.P. Chuck! Keep shreddin Murphy!

these interviews are so fucking awesome!

James and Chuck were awesome R.i.p.

When metal heads tucked their shirts in lol. Amazing album since I was a teenager & it hit the shelves. Great chat with James here.

All the extreme metal he is part of shows his versatile nature but his record Convergence show he is one of the metal greats!!

Still have my original cassette bought on its release date.

Awesome!!! I was 12 or 13 when I bought Spiritual Healing!!! 😎 👍

The Murphy \m/ all of my favorite death metal albums have Murf. Disincarnate is still my favorite. Still want that back patch.

The best Death album from the OLD DEATH ERA(pre-demolition Berlin wall times)

LOW is one of my FAVORITE albums.🤟

Got to see them play together they were really tight

I thought the whammy bar stuff on Leprosy was a little over the top too, it almost makes me laugh in some spots. But hey, it made the album what it is, for better or worse.

Totally not what I expected him to sound like lol. One of my earliest influences though. Really changed the way I approached leads.

interesting

Don't miss my incredible video of James Murphy playing in 1990! (sorry it's Obituary) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CjwKzBLqnNg.html (20-second SUPER highlight!) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8XaCcLb1B_k.html (full show)

James Murphy everyone!!! Great interview!!! Whats the intro song in all your videos?

lol i remember when Metallica came out with the black album. I threw that cassette out the window and put this album back in.

Yeah !!! CARCASS !!!!

I wonder what that Mark guy is doing? Still canceling practices?

James sounds like Bill Hicks.

'promosm' 🤘

Head strong more ego driven think this is why you were never in one band

James is a great guitarist however not a fan of him personally