Michael Angelo Batio

Chicago-based ambidextrous heavy metal guitar virtuoso Michael Angelo Batio is known for his lightning-fast guitar techniques, as well as his inventions, such as the double guitar, which he prominently uses in his recordings and performances. Batio is also well known as a guitar instructor and has released several instructional videos demonstrating his techniques. He is frequently listed as one of the greatest shredders of all time by magazines such as Guitar World and Total Guitar. Beginning his career in the 1980s as the guitarist of the metal band Holland, and later finding...