Alexi Laiho

Manfred-Klose

Do you know him? if you like metal you should know him.

He is probably one the modern guitar hero's that is pretty famous today, but the old guys wont know him(maby,prove me wrong!!!).
He plays guitar/Vocals for a band named "Children of Bodom"

some info about him:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexi_Laiho

Please,please,please add some more names to the the list, we can get the younger musicians involved with this forum.
Some help wessel and Spyke:

1.Alexi laiho
2.Synester Gates
3.Zacky Vengence
4.Matt Heafy
5.Corey Beaulieu
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Wessel

Mohammed Suicmez of necrophagist , His solo on fermented oval discharge is the best solo ever.Period.

Herman Lee and Sam Totman of Dragonforce.They are sick!!!!

On the case of dragonforce,they have a South African vocalist ZP Theart

This is a video of their most famous solo from the song trough fire and flames

NorioDS

LOVE Children of Bodom. Alexi plays some pretty awesome stuff. You heard CoB's cover of The Trooper? AWESOME!

glug

Children Of Bodom are awesome.. Awesome players. Also have a listen to Arch enemy. Michael Amott

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glug

Manfred Klose wrote: Do you know him? if you like metal you should know him.

He is probably one the modern guitar hero's that is pretty famous today, but the old guys wont know him(maby,prove me wrong!!!).
He plays guitar/Vocals for a band named "Children of Bodom"

some info about him:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexi_Laiho

Please,please,please add some more names to the the list, we can get the younger musicians involved with this forum.
Some help wessel and Spyke:

1.Alexi laiho
2.Synester Gates
3.Zacky Vengence
4.Matt Heafy
5.Corey Beaulieu
6.Michael amott- Arch Enemy
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glug

GeraldH wrote: Children Of Bodom are awesome.. Awesome players. Also have a listen to Arch enemy. Michael Amott

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This is a video of the two guitarists from children of bodom

Mr-M

+1 on Herman Li and Sam Totman from DragonForce! Super-fast Nintendo TV game/ 80's arcade game music Power Metal! Not my favourite music, but still very impressive from a technical point of view and enjoyable in short stretches.

Herman Li is said to be, note for note, one of the fastest guitarists in the world. Don't know if that's true or not, but he really does play uber-fast!

I think Children of Bodom is overally a better band (the drummer is very, very good for one) than Dragonforce though, so I prefer them. I'm not really a total metal head, but I do still listen to metal so I suppose I can comment.

Wessel

Wow I tottally forgot about Micheal Amott,My favorite arch enemy song is Ravenous!

Children of Bodom used to be my favorite band but their latets album was a dissapointment.Non of the magic of the old stuff.

Probaply the best young guitarist in metal now is Mat heafy,Ascendancy is one of my favorite albums of all time.The band went a little bit gay with all the clean vocals on the Crusade their new album

Manfred-Klose

Well this happens to most bands, there first 2 albums is kick ass, and then go commercial and make money after that, and not long they break up and form a new band to start over again.
I loved Children of Bodom between the period of 1997 - 2000.

Spyke

In no particular order, just adding as we go along.

1. Alexi laiho
2. Synester Gates
3. Zacky Vengence
4. Matt Heafy
5. Corey Beaulieu
6. Michael amott- Arch Enemy
7. Michael Paget - Bullet for my Vallentine
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Not as 'new' but respect to Brett Gurewitz and Brian Baker from Bad Religion.

glug

what about James Hatfield(metallica) His got a lot of influence towards other guitarists.

MiKeZilLA

Not Mr Hetfield so much but definitely Kirk Hammet ?

glug

MiKeZilLA wrote: Not Mr Hetfield so much but definitely Kirk Hammet ?

Kirk Hammet was lucky enough to take private guitar lessons with Joe Satriana

Spyke

Well if we're going to go as far back as Metallica, one can't ignore James Iha of Smashing Pumpkins fame. But then again many good guitarists were doing the rounds at the time (late 80's, early 90's) - think Slash here...

Riaan

But then again many good guitarists were doing the rounds at the time (late 80's, early 90's) - think Slash here...

I'm halfway through reading his autobiography now...awesome read, well worth it and really scary!

Spyke

Back to topic (as such), another noteworthy mention has to go out to Russell Lissack from Bloc Party. His pieces on Hunting for Witches really tickle me.

Click the picture for an interview with Mr Lissack.

The last question and answer really frustrates me!!! ?

Gray

*Zach Blair
*Kevin Wasserman
*Quinn Allman
*Greg Bester
*Jared Hartmann and Sameer Bhattacharya
*Tom Morello
*Matthew Bellamy
*Elio Alien
*Paul Wolinski

Synester Gates Zacky Vengence

+1 on Herman Li and Sam Totman from DragonForce

+5³³³+1³

Spyke

Kevin Wasserman? Noodles?

I don't know about that one. Good, but not great. His playing is effective but I don't know... I don't regard him as a fretboard genius.

Gray

Well I don't think he's a shredd Mister, but he is king of punk IMO or at least a baron. ?

Spyke

I'm going to go with a Baron on that one... ?

And here's where i'm going to fall on my sword - Punk guitarists on a whole are less... what's the word I'm looking for... technical?

Punk is best and most effective when it's a simple 3 or 4 chord, power chord riff. Combine it with, as my punk-hating work colleague would say, angry 14 year old drummer on speed and you have a recipe for the masses.

Do give you a disappointing idea of how easy punk is, go here and play with this: Punk-o-matic