Alex Weber, bassist, composer, and teacher, currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland. Being born into a musical family, he was always surrounded by music; whether it was at performances of his percussionist father, at the musicals his actress/singer mother would perform in, or simply just by hearing them both practice around the house. After picking up the electric bass at the age of 12, he immediately knew he had found his true calling. Early on, he was attracted to punk and ska music but soon quickly started to drift in the direction of heavier musics, like the various genres of metal. Throughout middle and high school, Alex would perform and record with various local metal bands. Most of them would end up performing at many of the well-known MD/VA rock venues opening for notable acts such as Cynic, Devin Townsend, Gojira, Tesseract, Animals as Leaders, Periphery, Candlemass, Katatonia, and Sonata Arctica.
In 2007, Alex enrolled in the Jazz program at Towson University and was introduced to the acoustic bass, to which he also became quickly attached. While at Towson, he studied jazz bass under Jeff Reed, and improvisation with Jim McFalls and Dave Ballou, while also studying with visiting artists such as Drew Gress, Ellery Eskelin, and Mark Dresser. He graduated in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Jazz Performance. During this time, Alex also started his career as a freelancing musician playing jazz in various local venues and has now branched out into performing many differing styles of music, including jazz, rock/funk, blues, fusion, bluegrass/country, folk, and classical.
Alex joined progressive metal band Exist in 2008 to cover bass and vocal duties and has since recorded four albums with them. In 2017, Exist signed with Prosthetic Records and has toured the US and Canada with notable bands such as Gorguts, Obscura, Beyond Creation, and Archspire.
Besides touring with Exist, Alex has also toured all over the world in a diverse assortment of metal bands such as Jeff Loomis’ solo project, Defeated Sanity, and Sabbath Assembly. In 2020, Alex joined the brutal death metal Malignancy from Yonkers, NY and in 2022 he joined the internationally renowned German technical death metal band Obscura as their bassist. Since then he has played all over the world at various festivals where both bands have headlined.
Throughout the last decade, Alex has released records with various projects and groups that he leads or has been a part of. In 2018, he put out his first jazz record as a bandleader entitled “Wandering Through” that features local Baltimore musicians and some of his original compositions. Other releases include two records from jazz/metal quintet Talking Points, an improvised music trio album under the name Michaels Weber Kuhl, and an EP from a new project called Svengahli that features the metal side of his composing. The project’s first EP “Nightmares Of Our Own Design,” which features internationally renown musicians such as Kevin Hufnagel, Rafael Trujillo and Anup Sastry, was self- released in 2020. He plans to continue developing the group and a full length album is currently in the works.