Testament guitarist Alex Skolnick is playing "Florida Man Blues", the first blues song of his jazz trio, and he even acts as the lead singer. To everyone's delight, he is not rappers like this time last year.

Of course, those Skoly D rap songs are funny, weird, and funny, but Skolnick is more suitable for blues, even if it does mean keeping some ironic, current-related comments in this new single.

Steal from the infamous "Florida" news headlines (see what we did there?), these headlines usually describe some seemingly far-fetched scenes that have never happened in a million years as the "Sunshine State" In the daily events in the movie, the Alex Skolnick trio evokes that cool atmosphere, the band wearing sunglasses in the music video and Skolnick watching himself on the TV The courage was swaggered on the cold streets of Brooklyn.

"Every other day I read about the Floridian, who ignores evolution and does what he can," Skolnick sang, and he provided snapshots of many situations in Florida, such as a man taking his pet alligator to wine. shop. If you want to know-yes, it did happen.

Skolnick was very aware of the humorous nature of the content he posted, and took the video with camedians Dave Hill, Brian Posehn, and podcast host Dean Delray with guest appearances.

When commenting on the song’s video, which was written in 2019, Skolnik said: “I’m very happy to finally release this video! In the two years we followed this song, a lot of things happened. We all It can be used well during this period of time is full of solid blues and a good sense of humor. I thank everyone who participated in it, from tracking to filming, especially Adam, who believed in this song and thought it was worthy of being as big as Florida video."

Regarding the jazz trio jumping to blues, he added, "Blues has always been an important part of my performance, across genres. In high school, BB King is on my turntable like Van Halen. And I have always "I like Junior Brown, Frank The lyrical humor of Zappa and early Tom Waits et al. 'Florida Man Blues' provided the first opportunity to fully demonstrate these influences in the recording. "

Watch the music video below, but only if you wear sunglasses.