Samy Elbanna (Lost Society, Children of Bodom)

Ok, so I’ve never actually heard of Samy before until he recently played two Children of Bodom tribute shows with the original lineup which utterly impressed me. I was very sceptical of those shows because it’s damn hard to find someone replacing Alexi and remaining faithful but goddamnn did he do an amazing job. There is a full recording of one show on YouTube in pretty decent quality, check it out if you’re a Bodom fan.

Anyway, I then checked out Samy’s socials and I’m pretty impressed by his playing:

In terms of picking it looks like RDT USX I guess? But other people here have probably better eyes for that :smiley:

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Haha, I was thinking of making a post about Samy, insane technique and been blowing up on my feeds recently!

That would be my guess, looks mainly wrist with a significant amount of finger motion too and then perhaps a little forearm? Feels like USX players are commonly great at combining varying degrees of all of the above :slight_smile: