Alex Skolnick

American guitarist

Born: 29 September 1968
Berkeley
Country: United States
Active: 1983–
Discography: 1 album

Biography

Alex Skolnick is a jazz musician who plays guitar. Alex Skolnick was born on 29 September 1968 in Berkeley. The music is usually filed under jazz, avant-garde jazz and heavy metal music.

Alexander Nathan Skolnick (born September 29, 1968) is an American musician from Berkeley, California. He is best known as the lead guitarist and one of the songwriters of the thrash metal band Testament and has played with several other bands, including The Alex Skolnick Trio, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Savatage and the heavy metal supergroup Metal Allegiance. Skolnick began his musical career at the age of 15 when he joined the local Bay Area thrash metal band Legacy, which eventually became Testament, and performed on five albums with them, from The Legacy (1987) to The Ritual (1992). By the time he left Testament in 1992, Skolnick had found considerable fame among the thrash metal and guitar communities; Guitar World magazine named him one of the greatest guitarists of all time, and as one of the "fastest guitarists of all time".

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