James Plotkin is an American guitarist and producer, famous for his role in bands such as Khanate and OLD but with an extensive catalogue outside these bands. He has performed guitar duties for bands Phantomsmasher and Scorn and continues to remix tracks for bands such as KK Null, Nadja, Sunn O))), ISIS, Pelican and Earth. He tends to work with grindcore, industrial metal, noise music, drone metal, dark ambient, digital hardcore and post-metal.