Eleven-year-old viral guitar sensation Maya Neelakantan joined Testomony onstage in the course of the band’s present in Las Vegas on Friday (September thirteenth).
Contemporary off her extensively seen America’s Received Expertise quarterfinals look, Maya was invited onstage by the Bay Space thrash vets for a rendition of “Curse of the Legions of Loss of life (C.O.T.L.O.D.)” from the seminal album The Legacy.
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Guitarist Alex Skolnick and frontman Chuck Billy dealt with the introductions, revealing that this is able to be Maya’s first time taking part in stay at an precise heavy metallic present — not precisely the identical crowd because the AGT studio viewers.
“So let’s present her some love!” shouted Billy towards the group, which roared in assist.
Extremely, Maya seamlessly fell in with Skolnick and rhythm guitarist Eric Peterson as if she was a 3rd guitar participant within the band. Across the two-minute mark, Slolnick pointed towards Maya, signaling for her to take the primary solo within the tune from the centerstage highlight. She wore her trademark beaming smile all of the whereas.
Neelakantan took to Instagram following the efficiency to thank Testomony and share a household photograph with the band:
“Simply performed with Testomony on stage now!!! It was unimaginable taking part in with all of them, taking part in to a metalhead crowd for the primary time and assembly Eric Peterson, Alex Skolnick, Chuck Billy, Chris Dovas, Steve DiGiorgio and the wonderful Testomony crew too. It was all such an unimaginable expertise and I cherished hanging with the band in addition to jamming with them on stage!!!! So unforgettable! Thanks a lot Testomony for giving the wonderful alternative and for all the time being so variety and supportive to me proper from the start!!!!”
Maya just lately made headlines after ripping by way of a efficiency of Metallica’s “Grasp of Puppets” in the course of the quarterfinals of America’s Received Expertise. Regardless of an overwhelmingly optimistic response from the judges and YouTube commenters, Maya was voted out in favor of arguably lesser expertise, although it appears just like the AGT publicity is already paying off.
In the meantime, Testomony simply launched their co-headlining North American tour with Kreator that runs by way of the tip of October. A Monday (September sixteenth) gig in Seattle is subsequent on the itinerary (get tickets right here).
Under you may watch viewers footage of Maya Neelakantan taking part in with Testomony onstage in Las Vegas.