also -
Matt Barlow
Bruce Dickinson
James Hetfield
russ allen
black/death metal -
Alexi Laiho
Mikael Akerfeldt
Shagrath
The Women -
Tarja Turunen (nightwish)
sharon den adel (within temptation)
christina scabbia (lacuna coil)
tanja (lullacry)
kim goss (sinergy
To improve technique and of course trying to keep all as clean as possible. I know my own limits and speed limits and so on I never play anything I'm not capable of. That wouldn't make any sense. After three years of playing I tried to play everything as fast as possible and that sounded, I would say, like shit, and I didn't realize that if I'd play bit slower things than I was capable of playing then everything would sound much better.
--Aleksi Laiho - Advice to Play By
--Aleksi Laiho - Advice to Play By