Kyle Sokol

Kyle Sokol, born on 31 October 1974, is an American bassist and skateboarder who plays with Nasty Savage, Medieval Steel, Astronomica, Nocturnus A.D., Argus and Rude Squad, and has also played with Disareyen, Mercy McCoy, Trace of Day, Sectioned, King of Denmark, Noble Jones and Hell on Earth. For several years he wrote a bass guitar column called The Low End for the Tampa Bay metal publication Rivot Rag. He is one of the few bass players in metal who use the slap and pop technique extensively, along with two-handed tapping, and he was chosen by Kelly Shaefer of Atheist to play while Shaefer was in Neurotica and about to tour on Ozzfest. He contributed to Shaefer's album Outside the Spiral.