John Lecompt biography

Date of Birth
10 March 1973, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

Birth Name
John Charles LeCompt

Most people probably know John LeCompt as "the other guitarist for Evanescence." Which he is, but there is so much more! You see, he is also "the sexiest man alive"... at least thats what the liner notes to Origin say. So who are we to argue?

John has been part of the Little Rock metal scene since the late 90's.

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 Sacrafice, 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 Sarafice 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.

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 Ev's major label debut Fallen, John even had part in writting the song "Taking Over Me". And the duet "Bring Me To Life" on Fallen was with Paul McCoy from the 12 Stones, but ever since that time, 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.

Also John has a new song (from a different side project - because he just doesn't already have enough of those) that he did while they had a break. He is still working on the mastering to meet his high standards.