1. Jeff Loomis was born on September 14,1971 and is an American musician, best known for his role as lead guitarist in the progressive metal band Nevermore during its existence from 1991 to 2011, as well as brief tenures in its precursor, Sanctuary.
At the age of 16, Jeff Loomis won Wisconsin's Guitar Wars contest.
Jeff Loomis saw Cacophony on tour and told Marty Friedman, who became very interested, about the audition.
Jeff Loomis began to work on his solo album Zero Order Phase.
Jeff Loomis turned the band down in order to keep working on his solo album.
Not too long after being auditioned for the lead part in Megadeth, Jeff Loomis was unable to join the band Sanctuary after guitarist Sean Blosl had left.
Jeff Loomis was able to take his place at this time; however, because of a dispute caused by guitarist Lenny Rutledge wanting to make grunge oriented music, Sanctuary broke up four months afterwards.
Jeff Loomis played an important role in developing the sound that Nevermore has today, using 7-string guitars and techniques such as sweep picking.
In 2005, Jeff Loomis reported that he would take some time as a break and then begin recording a solo album.
Jeff Loomis played another guest solo in the song "Racecar" on Periphery's self-titled debut album.
In summer 2012, Jeff Loomis embarked on a North American tour with The Contortionist, Chimp Spanner, and 7 Horns 7 Eyes.
In 2013, Jeff Loomis started touring with melodic death metal band Soilwork.
On November 17,2014, Jeff Loomis was announced as the new guitarist of melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, replacing Nick Cordle.
In January 2019, Jeff Loomis said he had been working on material for an upcoming third solo album.
In June 2021, Graham Bonnet released a statement on Facebook that Jeff Loomis had joined Graham Bonnet's Alcatrazz.
Jeff Loomis had a monthly column in Guitar World magazine titled "Merchant of Menace", where he explained how to play the riffs and solos of Nevermore.
Jeff Loomis has been featured in Young Guitar Magazine, showing guitarists how to play and explain his style and signature guitar in Nevermore.
Jeff Loomis plays a Schecter C-7 Hellraiser with EMG 707 active humbucker pickups, and the C-7 Blackjack with the Seymour Duncan Blackout pickups.
Jeff Loomis can been seen on YouTube playing an electro acoustic LAG Tramontane T100 ASCEBLK.
In January 2014, Schecter announced that the Jeff Loomis series had undergone a redesign.