# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alex-skolnick
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:47:44.216Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alex-skolnick"
name: "Alex Skolnick"
slug: "alex-skolnick"
description: "Alexander Nathan Skolnick is an American musician from Berkeley, California. He is best known as the lead guitarist and one of the songwriters of the thrash metal band Testament and has played with several other bands, including The Alex Skolnick Trio, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Savatage and the heavy metal supergroup Metal Allegiance."
tagline: "American guitarist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2017_Testament_-_Alex_Skolnick_-_by_2eight_-_DSC9140.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1968-09-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.857868
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/AlexSkolnick"
    handle:    "AlexSkolnick"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/alexskolnick/"
    handle:    "alexskolnick"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/AlexSkolnickFanPage"
    handle:    "AlexSkolnickFanPage"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://alexskolnick.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Алекс Сколник"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alex Skolnick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Άλεξ Σκόλνικ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Skolnick"
    title: "Alex Skolnick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Skolnick"
    title: "Alex Skolnick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "الکس اسکولنیک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alex Skolnick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Skolnick"
    title: "Alex Skolnick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Skolnick"
    title: "Alex Skolnick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Skolnick"
    title: "Alex Skolnick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Skolnick"
    title: "Alex Skolnick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "アレックス・スコルニック"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Skolnick"
    title: "Alex Skolnick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Skolnick"
    title: "Alex Skolnick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Skolnick"
    title: "Alex Skolnick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Skolnick"
    title: "Alex Skolnick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alex Skolnick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Skolnick"
    title: "Alex Skolnick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alex_Skolnick"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/47641f4f-f92a-4a68-bf4b-d94d9df9c5d7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q443818"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump