F. Murder Slaybraham

F. Murder Slaybraham (born on July 12th, 1981 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American singer/songwriter. He is the current lead vocalist for The Ghost-Rig Truckers.

Early Life
F. Murder Slaybraham grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. For most of his childhood he mainly listened to hip hop and heavy metal, but discovered the D.C. punk scene in high school and began to attend shows. He always wanted to start a band but was told that he wasn't musically talented. Refusing to let that stop him, Slaybraham taught himself to growl over many years. When asked in an interview with Unpublished magazine if he had any words for the many musicians who've refused to work with him over the years, Slaybraham said, "Yeah - fuck all of you. I hope you get AIDS."

Musical Career
Slaybraham founded The Ghost-Rig Truckers along with friend Billy Club Thornton in October 2011. The concept of the band was inspired by Slaybraham's Halloween costume, an undead truck driver. Thornton proposed to write a trucker ballad in a psychobilly style, and together they wrote the lyrics for their first song, "The Gruesome Tale of Bubba Bile." The song features an evil trucker who dies after being drawn and quartered by a motorcycle gang and is enlisted by Satan to carry souls to Hell in his big rig.

Slaybraham and Thornton continue to write and record songs with the goal of releasing an album. The two split songwriting duties, with both contributing lyrics and Thornton writing the bulk of the music (Thornton's brother, Stabbington Bear, writes the bass lines).

Along with his bandmates in The Ghost-Rig Truckers, Slaybraham has started additional sideprojects including the surf/rastabilly outfit The Dreadful Dreads and the powerbilly band The Vaunted Heroes of Appalachia.