Matt Brooks

ABOUT MATT BROOKS

Lead guitarist who rose to stardom as a member of the New Zealand hard rock act Like a Storm. His band has found great success with singles like "Love the Way You Hate Me" and toured with big-name acts like Alter Bridge and Three Days Grace.

He formed Like a Storm in 2005 in his hometown of Auckland, New Zealand. He and the band later relocated to Canada.

His band proved unusually popular in the United States, becoming the highest-charting New Zealand rock band in American radio history. "Love the Way You Hate Me" has accumulated more than 20 million streams on Spotify.

His brothers Chris and Kent are founding members of Like a Storm .

Like a Storm's 2012 EP Chaos Theory Part 1 features a cover of Coolio 's "Gangsta's Paradise."