Watch: EXODUS accompanied by 11-year-old viral rock sensation MAYA NEELAKANTAN at the Orlando concert

11 year old guitarist Maya Neelakantan from Chennai, India, which has gone viral for her “America’s Got Talent” Audition, joined EXODUS on stage at the House Of Blues in Orlando, Florida on Monday, November 4th to perform the EXODUS song “Brain dead”. Fan-filmed video of their performance can be seen below.

Last August Neelakantan went viral again with her rendition of METALLICA'S “Master of the Puppets” on “America’s Got Talent” Quarterfinals. The young guitarist had previously covered PAPA cockroach'S “Last resort” in front of a packed live audience “America’s Got Talent” Audition.

Maya recently spent time with SLAYER And EXODUS guitarist Gary Holt. Additionally, TOOL guitarist Adam Jones gave her one of his own Gibson Les Pauls after he came across her interpretation of TOOLis the 16-minute masterpiece “7emest”. In 2023, she went viral after performing a mashup of 22 TOOL Songs all in one take.

“I listened SLAYER, METALLICA, SLIPKNOT, EXODUS And Lamb of God “Since I was two years old,” she said. “I loved thrash metal because it sounded so energetic.” Every time it played I would jump up and down.

How she imagines her own music Maya said: “My dream is to create my own genre. Something that combines all of my musical interests. It will be a combination of extreme thrash metal and intricate Carnatic music in its traditional form. And it will be something just as crafted as TOOL Music.”

In September, Maya joined TESTAMENT on stage at the House Of Blues in Las Vegas, Nevada to perform this TESTAMENT song “Curse Of The Legions Of Death (COTLOD)”.