I personally don't care if I become 1/8th as famous as Metallica. Very few people know who Christian Muenzner is relative to those who know James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett, but Muenzner has more talent in his right hand than Hetfield and Hammett have in their entire bodies.
Enough about metal bands. I'm enjoying seeing a shredder get high on the only drug anyone needs. Adrenaline.
i dont think thats true, the two musicians are completly different death metal has it's place, i've seen necrophagist twice in the UK and shredding is great, but it gets old quick because it's hard for them to vary and to be honest they were completely out of time both times i saw them sadly.
I could easily say that Laiho was technically better (more talented) than Hendrix, but it would be foolish wouldnt it...
I feel like an idiot for returning to a comment thread so long after it started, but yours is the most educated, un-biased thing I've heard about guitarists in a while. I guess I was just upset that day--a lot of people where I live only think 'Metallica, AC/DC, etc' when they hear 'metal music' mentioned somewhere.