2013 · Quantic Dream
Beyond: Two Souls
3 million players
Quantic Dream went looking for what they described as the ultimate European guitarist. They flew Wolters to their Paris motion capture facility, where he became the source of the in-game guitar moves and the virtual guitar performance of Elliot Page's character.
Credited in the game's music alongside Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe.
In 2021, PewDiePie reacted to that guitar solo in a playthrough watched more than five million times.
Biography
Wolters began his professional career in 1994, when the heavy prog and fusion band Arabesque released their instrumental debut Beyond the Veil on Shark Records.
A long collaboration with the Finnish label Lion Music began in 2002 with Arabesque's second album The Union. It opened the door to a string of tribute albums dedicated to guitarists such as Uli Jon Roth, Gary Moore, Ritchie Blackmore and Jimi Hendrix.
The Arabesque chapter behind him, he launched a solo career with Workshop, quickly followed by Speed, Traffic & Guitar Accidents, which Metal Express Radio greeted by calling him a guitar hero in the making and Sea of Tranquillity named instrumental album of the year, and by Out of Order, featuring Virgil Donati.
In 2008 he joined brothers Matt and Gregg Bissonette on Shadrane's Lion Music debut Temporal, before self-releasing False Poetry in 2011, with Shrapnel Records' house drummer Atma Anur behind the kit.
From 2013 onward his path crossed Vivien Lalu's again and again: guitars on Atomic Ark, a short all-star live tour in 2014 that produced Live at P60, then Paint the Sky, The Fish Who Wanted To Be King and A Mythmaker's Demise.
In 2021 he self-released his fifth solo album Snapshot. Around the same time, Metal Blade Records announced him as the guitarist of A-Z, the band founded by Ray Alder and Mark Zonder, where he also contributed to the writing.
Milestones
1994
Arabesque
The professional career opens with the instrumental debut Beyond the Veil on Shark Records.
2004
Speed, Traffic & Guitar Accidents
Named instrumental album of the year by Sea of Tranquillity. Steve Vai featured his cover of For the Love of God on his own channel, and talked about Wolters on Dutch radio.
2013
Beyond: Two Souls
Motion capture and guitar performance for Quantic Dream, credited alongside Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe.
2022
A-Z
Sole guitarist and one of the writers on the debut album of the band founded by Ray Alder and Mark Zonder, on Metal Blade Records. The record charted in the United States, Germany and Switzerland.
Bands & collaborations
A-Z
- 2022A-ZMetal Blade
Arabesque
- 2002The UnionLion Music
- 1994Beyond The VeilShark Records
Two demo cassettes came first: Pistache Express in 1990 and Paragraph in 1993.
Damian Wilson
One Knight Only tour, 2023
Guitars in the band assembled for Damian Wilson's two-hour retrospective, revisiting three decades across Ayreon, Landmarq, Threshold, Headspace and Lalu.
- 31 OctSpirit of 66, VerviersBE
- 1 NovHarmonie, BonnDE
- 2 NovColos-Saal, AschaffenburgDE
- 3 NovDe Bosuil, WeertNL
- 4 NovBoerderij, ZoetermeerNL
- 5 NovIduna, DrachtenNL
Elysion
- 1997The Wonder YearsSelf-released
Fussili Jerry
- 2006Diggin' YouMini album
Jessie Galante
Three tours with the American singer, plus writing and recording for The Show Must Go On, around 2010.
Lalu
- 2026A Mythmaker's DemiseFrontiers
- 2023The Fish Who Wanted To Be KingFrontiers
- 2022Paint the SkyFrontiers
- 2015Live At P60Smelly Metal
- 2013Atomic ArkSensory
- 2005Oniric MetalLion Music
Shadrane
- 2008TemporalLion Music
Also with
Symphonic Rock Night, three seasons between 2017 and 2022, touring Dutch theatres in two-and-a-half-hour shows with a nine-piece band.
Spirit of Rush, the Rush tribute band.
A-Z · chart positions
The debut album, August 2022.
Album charts
- 22Billboard Hard Music Albums
- 31Billboard Top New Artist Albums
- 46Switzerland Album Charts
- 76German Album Charts
- 86Billboard Independent Label Current Albums
Amazon best sellers
- 5Hard Rock & Metal · albums, US
- 29All music · albums, US
- 4Alternative & Indie · CD and vinyl, Germany
- 7Hard Rock & Metal · CD and vinyl, Germany
- 47All music · CD and vinyl, Germany
- 10Hard Rock & Metal · digital, Germany
Apple
- 14Heavy Metal · iTunes Top 100, US
Apple playlists
- Best New Songs
- Breaking Metal
Clinics & session work
Gear demonstrations
2000 – 2012
Twelve years of demos and clinics across the Netherlands and Belgium, for brands including
- Engl
- Zoom
- Ibanez
- ESP
- Boel
- Hughes & Kettner
- Laney
- Randall
Sessions & stage
Commercial studio work throughout Belgium and the Netherlands, fill-in guitar for other projects, and years of live playing with duos and cover bands.
“A-Z's new album is a fresh new take on the 80s classic hard rock sound. Great songs and production that will really resonate with fans of all eras.”
Phil Ehart Kansas
Tributes & guest work
- 2019The Russ Bergquist ProjectSaol
- 2016Guitar Addiction 2GuitarEuroMedia
- 2012Philhelmon – Enjoy It While It LastsSound Art & Design
- 2012Jason Becker's Not Dead Yet! Live In HaarlemPrimal Events
- 2011Guitar AddictionGuitarEuroMedia
- 2004Give Us Moore! Gary Moore TributeLion Music
- 2004The Spirit Lives On – Jimi Hendrix RevisitedLion Music
- 2003Blackmore's Castle – Deep Purple & Rainbow TributeLion Music
- 2003Beyond Inspiration – Uli Jon Roth TributeLion Music
Video games: Beyond: Two Souls, 2013, Sony Interactive Entertainment.