Jazz & Metal. What do these two completely different genres of music have in common? Yup, you got it right. Alex Skolnick. From being a lead guitarist of one of the most influential thrash metal outfit on earth (Testament) to forming & playing as a jazz player with his very own Alex Skolnick Trio, to being an avid blogger who is never afraid to call spade a spade to being one of the best selling metal authors in a very short time. Alex has done it all. It doesn’t end here. Alex is also a founding member and lead guitarist of all star heavy metal group Metal Allegiance. Metal Allegiance released a self titled debut album in 2015 which was a success.

Gearing up for the East coast tour, Metal Wani’s William Richards had a chat with Metal Allegiance founding member Alex Skolnick. Listen on as he talks about upcoming Metal Allegiance tour, success of debut album & magical lineup. Alex also talks about the new songs written, possible lineup for the next Metal Allegiance album, his wish to have Rob Halford and Bruce Dickinson on the possible followup album.

Alex throws light on upcoming Testament album, songwriting partnership with Eric Peterson, why he isn’t much involved with the songwriting as before, upcoming European tour and the musical direction of the album.

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