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Maya Neelakantan, an 11-year-old guitar prodigy from India, has wowed audiences once again on America’s Got Talent, this time ripping through Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” during her appearance in AGT‘s quarterfinals on Tuesday night (August 27th).
We previously reported on Maya crushing Papa Roach’s “Last Resort” for her AGT audition back in June, but she upped the ante in the quarterfinals, taking on an altogether more complicated and technical track.
Metallica’s lengthy epic “Master of Puppets” is widely considered their greatest musical achievement. Even for an accomplished guitarist such as Maya, it’s a real test — especially in a condensed, instrumental form as she performed it on AGT.
Backed by a house band of metal musicians and wearing a huge smile, Maya stood centerstage and took over lead guitar duties, steering the track through its iconic central riff and chorus before taking the spotlight for some wild shredding.
She even played Kirk Hammett’s subdued solo section, hitting a pedal to make her Flying V axe temporarily sound like an acoustic guitar.
Needless to say, the judges were impressed.
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