This clip of Alexi Laiho’s last gig exhibits why he was a guitar hero ’til the top

At the moment would have been Alexi Laiho‘s forty third birthday. The fashionable-day guitar god, who made his title with Finnish melodic demise metallers Kids Of Bodom, was cruelly taken from us on December 29, 2020 – merciless as a result of he died so younger, however merciless additionally as a result of such a essentially insane expertise had simply been snatched away from the world.

In an period the place new, fretboard-singeing heavy steel guitar heroes had been in brief provide, Alexi was a phenomenon – a participant who impressed a complete technology of budding musicians to choose up an axe and begin shredding. “Generally you won’t know somebody personally, however you’re feeling like them by listening to their guitar taking part in,” Svalbard guitarist/vocalist Serena Cherry – one such musician – instructed Metallic Hammer in our tribute to Alexi final 12 months. “That was the case with Alexi for me. I felt all his persona oozing out of each solo that he performed onstage.”