Latest about Alex Skolnick
“Playing scales up and down is dumb… this isn’t a f**king recital!” We meet the outspoken cartoon shredder who teamed up with Gary Holt, Alex Skolnick and George Lynch for one of this year’s biggest shred guitar albums
Led by a guitarist who claims to be the Bay Area lovechild of James Hetfield, The Shredderz just put out an all-star thrash metal album like no other. We get the lowdown on how a fictional band recruited some of today’s finest soloists for an orgy of sweep picking and searing shred
“Everybody was going crazy about Yngwie Malmsteen... Joe Satriani told me, ‘That’s fine, but don’t get too into him’”: Alex Skolnick explains why he was warned off sounding like the neoclassical maestro
The Testament guitarist says he learned more than just techniques from his A-list teacher
The biggest pickup drop of the year? Seymour Duncan unveils new Alex Skolnick, Warren DeMartini signature sets and the EVH-inspired Little '78
Also new from the pickup firm is the Exciter humbucker, which takes its sonic cues from the glory days of glam rock
Alex Skolnick says Phil Demmel is the Winston Wolf of metal guitarists, as the ex-Machine Head man joins Testament’s EU tour
Metal’s own super-sub has been drafted in to cover while Skolnick takes time out due to a family emergency
Joe Satriani recruits Peter Frampton, Steve Lukather, Mateus Asato, Cory Wong, Nili Brosh and more for G4 V6.0 Experience 2023
Steve Morse, Alex Skolnick, Eric Gales, Andy James, and John 5 are also among the chosen players for four days of workshops, mentor sessions, exclusive live performances and other six-string activities
Watch Alex Skolnick demo Steve Lukather’s live rig and reveal what’s on the Toto guitarist’s pedalboard
Testament and Toto were rehearsing in the same facility in Hamburg, so Skolnick tip-toed over and tried Lukather's signature Ernie Ball Music Man on for size
Watch Steve Stevens, Alex Skolnick, Richard Fortus and more perform Yes’s Starship Trooper in an epic all-star ensemble for Roadie Relief
The whopping 17-strong jam was organized by Mike Squires, and does justice to a prog classic while supporting out-of-work road crew and touring staff
Alex Skolnick debuts first-ever blues trio track, Florida Man Blues
The metal man reunites with his jazz trio and trades gargantuan gains for crystal cleans in his debut out-and-out blues effort
![[L-R] Alex Skolnick, Angel Vivaldi and Richard Shaw](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/v9ejaTaQka7U4NKJ76tdZW-840-80.jpg.webp)
![[L-R] Marty Friedman, Nuno Bettencourt, Alex Skolnick and Richard Shaw](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Q3wkubuRy977zb5mHSdh8Z-840-80.jpg.webp)
