Toby Knapp

A virtuosic American guitar player in the mold of lightning-fingered, neo-classical six-stringers like Yngwie Malmsteen and Uli John Roth, Toby Knapp emerged in the early 1990s with an aggressive style that drew as much from thrash and death metal as it did the more melody-forward approach of power and progressive metal. Scooped up by Mike Varney's guitar-centric Shrapnel Records at the age of 18, Knapp would go on to prove himself to be a versatile player over the decades, issuing numerous solo albums (Guitar Distortion in 1992, Polarizing Lines in 2006, Blizzard Archer in 20...