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 ...

Joe Satriani changed guitar for good long before he got a deal and made it as a recording artist. Just think of all the players who studied with him back in the day. There was the jazz guitar fusion ...

The way Alex Skolnick views it, why play in just one band when you can play different kinds of music in two. The California-born, Brooklyn-based guitarist is on his second tour of duty with the heavy ...

When it comes to the big names in touring metal acts, there is none more massive than Metallica. Dudes sell out everywhere they go, play massive football stadiums that measure on the Richter scale, ...

You knew that many of those noodly thrash-metal virtuosos from the Eighties would stick around in other genres, didn’t you? They’re still out there in jazz combos or writing excessively baroque ...