Rick Rozz is an American guitarist. Spent his formative years in Apopka, Florida

Apopka, Florida

Apopka is a city located in Orange County, Florida, United States. The population was 26,969 at the 2000 census. According to the U.S Census estimates of 2006, the city grew to 53,563. It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee Metropolitan Statistical Area. Apopka is an Indian word for “Potato...

, attending Lake Brantley High School. He is best known for his work with the death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 bands Death and Massacre. He still resides in Florida.

He played on and co-wrote the well-known death-metal releases Leprosy

Leprosy (album)

Leprosy is the second album by death metal band Death, released in 1988. Notably different in tone and quality from the 1987 debut, it is the first example of Scott Burns' work heard on many of the death metal and grindcore albums of that era...

in 1988, From Beyond

From Beyond (Massacre album)

From Beyond is the first album by Massacre released in 1991 on Earache Records. The album was re-released with a different cover and the Inhuman Condition EP as bonus tracks....

in 1990, the EP Inhuman Condition

Inhuman Condition

Not to be confused with the Sam Roberts' album The Inhuman ConditionInhuman Condition is an EP by Massacre. It was released in 1992 by Earache Records.-Track listing:# "Inhuman Condition" – 5:41# "Plains of Insanity" – 4:48...

in 1991 and the more rock-oriented LP Promise in 1996.

Rozz currently plays guitar for a new death-metal band M. Inc. which he and drummer Mike Mazzonetto formed in 2009.