RIP, LG
The great and the good of metal pay their respects to a lifer and an innovator of the genre
PRESS/MACIEJ PIELOCH
“When I started in Amon Amarth, LG was a huge influence on me as a singer. I still hold him to be one of the best, most original, influential singers the death metal genre has ever had. But more than this, LG became a friend. He was a humble and genuine person, always with a smile and laugh close at hand. There was nothing fake about him. I’ll miss him greatly.”
Johan
Hegg,
Amon
Amarth
“LG was a larger-than-life character that lived his life to the full – anyone that knew him will testify to this. Whenever we met up, the experience was always memorable. He’d fill a room with laugher and joy: always humble, amiable, kind and sincere. He was a special human being that will always have a place in our hearts and minds. His spirit lives on in the memories that he has left us and the legacy of his music. His passing leaves us with great sadness, but we’ll remember the good times. We raise a glass to the memory of the great Lars-Gorän Petrov.”
Karl Willetts, Memoriam
“LG was ‘our guy’. A Stockholm original. I should rephrase and say he ‘is’ our guy, really. That will never change, even if he’s physically not here anymore. He epitomised the term ‘down to earth’. No frills. He was just a downright lovely person. Brimming with positivity. A friend. Someone we knew, and he knew us. Every time I ran into him we always talked and laughed about something. He’d bum a cigarette (back when I was a smoker) and we’d have a beer, chatting away.