Background
Graham was born on 10 February 1977 in Dewsbury, England.
Graham was born on 10 February 1977 in Dewsbury, England.
He was formerly the bassist of metal band Rise to Addiction. Graham started playing Bass as his main instrument in 1996 playing in local bands around the West Yorkshire area. He moved to Nottingham in 1999 and helped form the stoner rock band who released the highly praised Scars East.P in 2001.
During this time he also worked at Earache Records processing orders for the labels then first webstore.
In May 2004, Graham moved to Kenora in Northwest Ontario, Canada where he spent time volunteering in the First Nations community. Rise To Addiction A New Shade of Black for the Soul (Mausoleum) 2007 Some Other Truth(Mausoleum) 2009 Evile Infected Nations re-dux Edition, Disc 2 (Earache Records) 2010 Five Serpent"s Teeth (Earache Records) 2011 Skull (Earache Records) 2013 The Old Turk, Dewsbury In October 2014 Joel Graham took on the role of Landlord at The Old Turk public in Dewsbury in between performing and recording with Evile The Old Turk historically is the only dedicated rock/metal bar in Dewsbury and frequently has live music events on.
Joel Graham uses both a finger-picking style and a plectrum when performing, although his preferred style is finger picking. Graham mainly uses the alternate two-finger (index and middle finger) picking style, but he performs an extremely fast three-finger roll style (made famous by bassist Billy Sheehan) during faster songs such as "Descent into Madness" and "Long Live New Flesh".
He uses a plectrum for all songs originally performed by Mike Alexander, commenting in several interviews that he wanted to play those songs just as Alexander did.
Graham has cited bassists including Steve Harris, John Entwistle, Cliff Burton, Billy Sheehan, Les Claypool, Scott Reeder, Pat Badger, Frank Bello and John Deacon as influences. Lincolnshire 6 Wireless system Fender PT-100 stage tuner.