You may have noticed a trend going on where mainstream celebrities are wearing metal band shirts as a fashion statement. Kanye West was recently spotted on the town wearing a Testament tee and this ...

Confessing that some of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra music didn't always align with his own personal tastes, "there were enough cool musical moments to balance things out and more importantly, ...

Back in the late ‘80s, there was some scuttlebutt that Dave Mustaine had shortlisted Testament’s Alex Skolnick for the lead guitar position in Megadeth. Mustaine had an ear for hot-shot players, and ...

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He joined up in 1995 following a successful audition, but by that time he’d already found himself bewildered with the haphazard manner in which the Osbourne organization operated. Skolnick played ...

Even if you’re living under a rock, you’re surely familiar with the current debate about AI and how it will impact art and life. Recently, Alex Skolnick of Testament chimed in with his two cents on ...

Alex Skolnick, born in 1968, grew up in Berkeley, California. At age nine, a fascination with the rock group Kiss led to a desire to learn guitar. At age sixteen, Alex tried out for a local band ...

Call me a jazz bigot. When I received Transformation by Alex Skolnick, apparently the ex-guitarist for thrash metal-heads Testament, my first thought was, "Great, another rocker trying to be a jazzer.

Watching this WH press briefing – every speaker praising the President’s “extraordinary leadership.” Even if that were true (which it’s obviously not), this is not how it’s done here. What country is ...

Brooklynite Alex Skolnick is best known as the lead guitarist of thrash outfit Testament and the jazz group Alex Skolnick Trio. But his latest project, Planetary Coalition, represents a radically new ...

Seeing a Miles Davis concert broadcast on TV altered Alex Skolnick's musical trajectory. The then-teenaged Skolnick had been weaned on the likes of Van Halen and was already a rock guitar whiz, ...