website associated_acts death_date years_active alias birth_place label landscape background birth_date instrument genre image article_title name occupation
http://sharrington.net/doug/index.htm defiance late 2006 1984 -- 2006 shredder usa roadrunner yes non_vocal_instrumentalist 01 october 1966 guitar thrash groove metal metal , speed metal , heavy metal , doug-smiling . jpg doug harrington
 doug harrington musician , songwriter
doug harrington

doug harrington -lrb- born douglas mcmackin harrington 1966 - 2006 -rrb- was an american heavy metal guitarist .
he was best known for being one of the lead guitarists for the thrash metal band defiance throughout their entire recording career .
doug joined defiance in 1984 , left in 1985 and rejoined again the same year in a turn of events where he and his replacement jim adams ended up sharing the lead guitar position .
doug was an integral member of defiance as soon as he joined the band , composing the bulk of the band 's music on all three of their albums , `` product of society '' , `` void terra firma '' and `` beyond recognition '' .
around 1993 , defiance folded and harrington , along with his former bandmates jim adams and bassist mike kaufmann formed a new band , inner threshold , with ex-heathen vocalist dave white .
this band played a more groove oriented traditional metal style .
after the departure of adams and white , harrington and kaufmann formed under , which also eventually folded after an ep .
harrington married his wife adrianne around this time .
their daughter grace was born in august 2002 .
no longer a professional musician , harrington went back to school and went into marketing and sales .
he played in a cover band called fat freddie 's cat which also featured dave white , mike kaufmann and jim adams .
defiance reunited in 2004 with harrington , adams , kaufmann , vocalist steev esquivel , and new drummer james raymond -lrb- later replaced by mark hernandez -rrb- , but at the time harrington was secretly battling cancer .
harrington spent the last few years of his life recording and writing for the new defiance album , but died in late 2006 .
the remaining four members of defiance have carried on as harrington requested and the new album will be dedicated to him .
a park bench in the montclair district of oakland , california was also dedicated to harrington .
harrington is survived by his wife , daughter , brother adam harrington , sister reva kidd , his father sherwood harrington and his stepmother , diane harrington .
