Guitar with Alex Skolnick

Alex Skolnick is well known for defying expectations, first by becoming – as an early member of Testament – one of the emerging thrash metal movement’s few lead guitar virtuosos (alongside Megadeth’s Marty Friedman) to achieve respect outside the genre. Within a few years, Alex would trade his native Berkeley for Brooklyn, earn a BfA in jazz from The New School and become a New York improvisor of multiple styles. Whether shredding loudly with Testament and other hard music projects or delicately improvising