Scott Motyka is a no-frills, melodic shred guitarist, cut from the 1980’s instrumental guitar cloth, with inspirational roots smothered in Classic Rock & Metal. 

Once described as “..one of the United States’ best-kept guitar secrets”, Motyka's performance treatment of arrangements and solo phrasing are aligned with a power-trio approach, with blistering speed and technical prowess matched only by his ability to know when to hold back and play for the song.

Hailing from the rural suburbs of New England, Scott cut his musical teeth on the eclectic music scene stretching between Boston and Providence. His earliest core inspirational roots include Jimi Hendrix with a strong Angus Young and Ace Frehley follow-up. Motyka’s teenage years were spent an obsession with all things 80’s instrumental shred guitar related – his strongest influences being Yngwie Malmsteen, Paul Gilbert and pretty much the entire Shrapnel Records Roster of the era. His High School years would be spent focusing on studies with Hungarian Master Classical Guitarist Jozsef Halajko. After receiving the Berklee College of Music Guitar Performance Scholarship at 19, Scott 's aspirations took on new momentum. After a few semesters at Berklee, he went on to pursue his dreams as a professional musician.

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In 2008, Motyka released a self-produced album of instrumental guitar tunes entitled “Cut .. ..From Within”. 

After supporting the album with live performances in the New England area, his focus shifted back to pursuing full band projects, with a vocalist front, where he could co-write, record and perform original music. With every project, Motyka tries to achieve what he calls ‘Improvisational Transcendence’.  

“My true inspiration, whether it's during a live performance, at home recording, or when you're searching for the right lyric or hook – it's what I call ‘Improvisational Transcendence’ – that moment when everything just comes together - the magic happens! The solo takes on next level momentum, the right idea just appears, or what seemed like an accident during a recording, becomes the keeper.”  - Sm. 

Between 2020-2025, Scott would invest his full attention to his new band called PLATINUM THRILL. The focus of the band was to develop their young upcoming lead singer into a front-woman superstar while forging the character of the band with passionate live performance as the priority to develop a hard rock power trio act performing song classics of over 4 decades, and the band’s own originals, in the band’s live performance driven, unique voice. After a road-weary 4 year push together, largely achieving their goals, with a pinnacle point being Scott accompanying singer, Amanda, her debut on a national stage making it on American Idol.

In 2026, Scott returns to his core passion as a guitar shred soloist. Stay tuned for new music and new projects to come!