# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/phil-demmel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:10:13.414Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/phil-demmel"
name: "Phil Demmel"
slug: "phil-demmel"
description: "Phil Demmel is an American musician who played lead guitar in the heavy metal band Machine Head between 2002 and 2018, making him their longest running member in that position. He has also performed with other artists such as Vio-lence, Torque, Metal Allegiance, BPMD, Kerry King and Category 7, and briefly with Slayer, Nonpoint, Overkill, Lamb of God and Testament as a fill-in guitarist."
tagline: "American guitarist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Phil_Demmel_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1967-04-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.47
  momentum:             9.246376811594203
  historical:           11.57748
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "فيل ديميل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Phil Demmel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Demmel"
    title: "Phil Demmel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Demmel"
    title: "Phil Demmel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Demmel"
    title: "Phil Demmel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%84_%D8%AF%D9%85%D9%84"
    title: "فیل دمل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Demmel"
    title: "Phil Demmel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Demmel"
    title: "Phil Demmel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Demmel"
    title: "Phil Demmel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Demmel"
    title: "Phil Demmel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BB%2C_%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BB"
    title: "Деммел, Фил"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Phil_Demmel"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/cdffda95-39fd-43b9-bcdc-a1a11b5849ef"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q587919"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump