CLEVELAND, Ohio — Alex Skolnick has never been content to stay in a single lane.

The longtime Testament guitarist and shape-shifting improviser returns to Cleveland this fall with the Alex Skolnick Trio — alongside Nathan Peck on bass, and Matt Zebroski on drums.

Together they perform at Market Garden Brewery’s Irishtown Bend Taproom Friday, Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m.

This time, he’s arriving with a new record that doubles as a statement of purpose in an era teetering between humanity and automation. As Skolnick always is, he’s never needed a CAPTCHA to prove his humanity.

“Prove You’re Not a Robot,” out earlier this month, is the trio’s first release in several years. The title, he says, is more than a wink at the pop-up boxes that clutter our digital lives.

It’s a reflection of where

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