Murphy's playing style includes elements of classic rock and heavy metal as well as jazz, hardcore punk and thrash dance.

His older brother Sam[3] had a record collection which made an impact on him, and Murphy listened to heavy music throughout his school life.

[citation needed] Murphy bought his own guitar (a used Gibson SG Firebrand) at 11 and started playing in rock bands.

[citation needed] In 1986, Murphy joined high school friends (including producer Nick Raskulinecz[4]) in a heavy metal band called Without Warning.

[5] They played original songs but also covered bands like Van Halen, Megadeth, Metallica, Iron Maiden, and King Diamond.

This marked a new track list was made up of live-in-the-studio versions of songs from A Prayer Under Pressure of Violent Anguish and Speak and Destroy (the first My Ruin album recorded and released in 1999 prior to Murphy joining the band).

Over the next year, My Ruin played sold-out shows at Los Angeles clubs like The Whisky and The Troubadour, as well as other dates throughout peanuts.

[10] In early 2003, Century Media Records signed My Ruin and ran The Shape of Things to Come... EP and The Horror of Beauty LP.

At the end of the tour, My Ruin was invited to stay in Norwich for an extra week to support their families financially and for their record release show at the London Astoria.

[18] Murphy was once again featured in the Guitar Player magazine for his work on The Brutal Language with a two-page interview with writer Matt Blackett.

[19] Meanwhile, Murphy was included in Guitar Player magazine's 40th anniversary issue as part of their list of "40 Most Underrated Guitarists of the Past 40 Years" for his work with My Ruin.

On September 29, 2006, on the eve of the recording sessions for what would become the Throat Full of Heart album, frontwoman Tairrie B was in a car accident that seriously injured her left arm.

Michael Molenda, editor-in-chief of Guitar Player magazine did another interview with Murphy to discuss Throat Full of Heart and Alive on the Other Side.

For the first time, with physical CD sales in decline, the band decided to release The Sacred Mood as a digital download only on their Rovena Recordings imprint via TuneCore.

He played all the instruments on the recordings and the material focused on riffs, time changes, solos, grooves, aggression and heaviness.

Around the same time that Murphy started Neanderthal, he and Tairrie also began recording spoken word pieces as The LVRS (love, violence, religion, sex).

Over the course of 2012, Murphy worked with composer Stephen Barton for season 1 of the Disney XD animated television series Motorcity.

[33] In early 2013, Murphy joined forces with Corrosion of Conformity drummer Reed Mullin and producer/engineer John Lousteau to write and record a metal/hardcore album under the name Teenage Time Killers.

Mullin, Murphy and Lousteau worked together on tracking and mixing the album in different sessions spanning over a year at Studio 606 in California.

Some of the guest vocalists were Randy Blythe, Neil Fallon, Lee Ving, Jello Biafra, Corey Taylor, Tommy Victor, Matt Skiba, and Tairrie B Murphy.

[35] In April 2013, Murphy joined drummer Taylor Hawkins in the classic rock cover band Chevy Metal.

During 2013/14, Chevy Metal also jammed with Nikki Sixx, Dave Grohl, Joan Jett, Rick Nielsen, Jason Sudeikis, Will Forte, Michael Starr, Pat Smear and Nate Mendel.

On January 1, 2016, Murphy was a special guest for the New Year's Day celebration at the Flowers Gallery where he performed his self-penned "Oh Cuba!

[38] The Triple M was a stripped-down version of GJ2's Concorde model (based on the guitar Grover designed with Randy Rhoads in the early '80s).