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Children of Bodom

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11 июл 2025 :	CHILDREN OF BODOM's JANNE WIRMAN On ALEXI LAIHO's Death: We Were 'Watching Our Friend Commit A Slow Suicide'
29 июн 2025 :	JANNE WIRMAN: Upcoming CHILDREN OF BODOM Book 'Tells The Whole Brutally Honest Story Of The Band'
3 май 2025 :	Watch CHILDREN OF BODOM Perform “Everytime I Die” Live At Summer Breeze Open Air 2017; Pro-Shot Video
15 апр 2025 :	Official CHILDREN OF BODOM Book To Arrive In August: 'It Tells The Band's Full History In Our Own Words'
20 сен 2024 :	ALEXI LAIHO's Life And Challenges He Faced In His Final Years Are Explored In New Six-Part YLE Podcast
31 авг 2024 :	CHILDREN OF BODOM Keyboardist JANNE WIRMAN Gives A Tour Of Bodom Bar & Sauna (Video)
14 фев 2024 :	CHILDREN OF BODOM Members Discuss ALEXI LAIHO Intervention - "He Was In Such Bad Shape That Our Tour Manager Had To Have Every City’s Morgue Number, Just In Case We Woke Up And Found Him Dead In His Bunk"
18 дек 2023 :	CHILDREN OF BODOM Members Open Up About ALEXI LAIHO's Final Days: He 'Became Someone' We 'Didn't Recognize Anymore'
27 окт 2023 :	CHILDREN OF BODOM's Final Concert To Be Released As Live Album This December
27 июл 2023 :	Ex-CHILDREN OF BODOM Keyboardist JANNE WIRMAN Says ALEXI LAIHO Told Him 'I'm Going To Drink Until I Die'
11 апр 2023 :	CHILDREN OF BODOM - Skeletons In The Closet Covers Album To Be Re-Issued On Limited Edition Transparent Green Vinyl; Now Available For Pre-Order
11 мар 2023 :	Watch: CHILDREN OF BODOM Members Walk You Through Official Photo Exhibition
22 фев 2023 :	LAMB OF GOD And KREATOR Members Visit ALEXI LAIHO's Grave In Helsinki: 'It's Nice To Go Pay Respects'
10 фев 2023 :	Official CHILDREN OF BODOM Book Announced
3 янв 2023 :	NEKROGOBLIKON Pay Tribute To ALEXI LAIHO On The Second Anniversary Of His Death With Cover Of CHILDREN OF BODOM's "Bodom Beach Terror"
17 дек 2022 :	CHILDREN OF BODOM's Final Concert To Be Released As Live Album
14 дек 2022 :	Former CHILDREN OF BODOM Members Look Back On First Ever Official Video "Deadnight Warrior"
15 ноя 2022 :	Former CHILDREN OF BODOM Members Officially Launch Bar And Band Museum: Video, Photos
10 сен 2022 :	Former CHILDREN OF BODOM Members To Launch Bar And Band Museum
7 июн 2022 :	THE HAUNTED Guitarist OLA UNGLUND Teams Up With DECREPIT BIRTH Drummer SAMUS PAULICELLI For Cover Of CHILDREN OF BODOM's "Are You Dead Yet?"
24 май 2022 :	Members Of ELUVEITIE, AD INFINITUM, WINTERSUN, EPICA And AMON AMARTH Pay Tribute To ALEXI LAIHO With Cover Of CHILDREN OF BODOM's "Follow The Reaper" (Video)
11 май 2022 :	CHILDREN OF BODOM's Surviving Members Open Up About Band's Split, ALEXI LAIHO's Death: 'The Fans Have A Right To Know What Happened'
24 мар 2022 :	Former CHILDREN OF BODOM Members 'Have No Passion To Try To Put Together' A Tribute Show For ALEXI LAIHO
22 янв 2022 :	Former CHILDREN OF BODOM Members Share JASKA RAATIKAINEN Drum Cam Footage From 2018 Helsinki Show
11 янв 2022 :	CHILDREN OF BODOM - Rare Live Footage From 1997 Helsinki Show Surfaces on YouTube
4 янв 2022 :	CHILDREN OF BODOM - Unreleased 2014 Live Video Of "Somebody Put Something In My Drink" In Helsinki Surfaces On YouTube

11 июл 2025

CHILDREN OF BODOM's JANNE WIRMAN On ALEXI LAIHO's Death: We Were 'Watching Our Friend Commit A Slow Suicide'

In a new interview with Chris Akin Presents, CHILDREN OF BODOM keyboardist Janne Wirman spoke about the December 2020 passing of the band's guitarist/vocalist Alexi Laiho. The 41-year-old died in his home in Helsinki, Finland after reportedly suffering from long-term health issues.

" In 2016, everything just went to hell with Alexi," Janne told Chris Akin Presents (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). "And the remaining timing in the band is you know that you're watching your friend commit a slow suicide. You know, with his addictions, that he shouldn't drink, he shouldn't do this and this, and he keeps doing it daily, and you're, like, 'Fuck! This is not gonna end well.' So that is not fun."

Asked if there are things now that he wishes he would have done differently that he thinks could have changed things or saved Alexi from his downward spiral, Janne said: "Yes and no, 'cause at the same time, what I then later on learned about addictions is that — 'cause he didn't want help; he refused our help. So, a grown man who's decided kind of to die by his addiction, you can't help a person like that. They've made up their mind. And I don't think he wanted to die, but that's what he was doing. So it's crazy. And you try to help. And also he said it to me, and he made it perfectly clear that he's not gonna get sober ever again, and he's just gonna whatever. So, yes and no," Janne repeated. "There's, of course, things that could have been handled differently, but in the end, if a grown man decides to die by their addictions, that's what they're gonna do. If they're gonna refuse all help and they've fucking made up their mind, that's what's gonna happen."

Asked what kept him in in the band after Alexi told him that he had no intention of getting sober, Janne said: "Well, yeah, this is now the very end in 2016 to 2019. When he said that to me, I started making other plans and removing myself from the band. And it got so confusing. There's a book coming out about BODOM that explains everything, by the way. But I announced that I'm gonna leave the band [around] 2018… So it got so fucking confusing with Alexi. And then there were better times. And it was just a fucking mess."

CHILDREN OF BODOM's official book will be published in August via the London, U.K.-based publisher Rocket 88.

The book tells the story of the Finnish melodic death metal pioneers as an oral history in which Wirman, bassist Henkka Seppälä, drummer Jaska Raatikainen and early guitarist Alexander Kuoppala plus other former members, their friends and colleagues recall the 30-plus-year history of their career.

For the first time, members of the band tell the story of CHILDREN OF BODOM in their own words. Henkka, Janne and Jaska recall the founding of the band with their lost brother, guitarist/vocalist and main songwriter Alexi Laiho and the struggles, adventures and triumphs they experienced in the more than 30 years that followed. Drawing on personal memories and new interviews with the band conducted by Finnish best-selling author and longtime friend of the band Timo Isoaho, the official CHILDREN OF BODOM book tells the whole story, warts and all, of the groundbreaking melodic death metal band.

The book is available in two deluxe editions; the Signature is signed by Henkka, Janne, Jaska and Alexander, and preordering gives you the chance to have a name printed in the book — only at childrenofbodombook.com.

When the book was first announced, Henkka, Janne, Jaska and Alexander said in a statement: "Since we stopped making music and suffered the tragic loss of our brother Alexi, we've been remembering so many great times that we had together, and you can now read about those times in this book. It tells the full history of CHILDREN OF BODOM in our own words."

In December 2023, Seppälä and Wirman hosted a listening party for CHILDREN OF BODOM's latest live album, "A Chapter Called... Children Of Bodom (Final Show In Helsinki Ice Hall 2019)", at the Bodom Bar & Sauna in Espoo, Finland. The LP, which was recorded at CHILDREN OF BODOM's final concert on December 15, 2019 at the Black Box in Helsinki Ice Hall in Helsinki, Finland, was made available via Spinefarm. During the question-and-answer portion of the event, Wirman and Seppälä discussed their mindset going into CHILDREN OF BODOM's final concert, which took place a year before Laiho passed away due to alcohol-induced degeneration of the liver and pancreas connective tissue. Furthermore, Laiho had a cocktail of painkillers, opioids and insomnia medication in his system. He had suffered from long-term health issues leading up to his death.

Janne said: "I felt a sense of relief onstage [at the final concert] 'cause I was very tired of Alexi's problems and constant problems with one guy. And then this guy who was our best friend and who wrote all the music, all of a sudden from 2016 on, just became someone I didn't recognize anymore. He was a different person, and he was so overcome with his disease and problems and it got to the point in 2019 we decided that this can't go on anymore. And then this was the last show. It was short notice, and we [originally] had so much better plans for how to say goodbye to all the international fans, how to do a proper farewell around-the-world tour [during 2020-2022] and whatever. But now, something we did not know, was [that] the pandemic [would happen], obviously, and that would have canceled all of those plans anyway."

Added Henkka: "So it was kind of, like, in a way we are lucky that we had this confrontation within the band that made us decide to drop [the group] earlier than we were supposed to and have this final show that was recorded. Because if you would have kept on the original plan with Alexi that let's do a farewell tour until 2022, I think it was, so then the pandemic would have ruined everything. And we probably would have never had this kind of last proper souvenir."

Asked if it ever entered their minds that they could take a long break away from each other and then maybe regroup at a later date, Henkka quipped: "That would have been like a mature way of dealing with it." Janne said: "Our manager at the time, Steve, did ask me that, at the eve of the last show, Steve asked me that, 'Are you ever gonna play with Alexi again?' And I said, 'I would only [play with him] if he would seek help and become fully sober.' And I knew that wasn't an option, that he had decided at that point, unfortunately, that he's just gonna die by his addictions, which is horrible. And it's very sad, but I knew him well enough that there was no way that he's gonna get better. And then that's why somehow it was also a relief for me at the last show. I realized that I need to let go."

Added Henkka: "The problems were pretty bad — I mean, within the band, all the relations. And I don't think anybody could see a future anymore. So [putting the band to rest] was the only option at the time. I'm sure that Steve, our manager, had some hopes of a reunion show within some years, of course, because he's a businessman [laughs], but it didn't even cross my mind at that time."

Continued Janne: "That's why I said that at the time I said that I will never play again with Alexi, 'cause I knew that he will not get sober, he will not get help for his problems. And then it would've been a totally different opinion. If somehow any of us would've felt that, 'Okay, Alexi is gonna get help. He's gonna get better,' all of us would've been, like, 'Okay, fine. Let's give him a couple of years and then let's get back together.' But that was not foreseeable at the time."

Added Henkka: "At the time it was, it was an impossible point."

Released with the blessing of Laiho's estate, the concert album completes the legendary band's career which began in Espoo, Finland in 1993 as INEARTHED. Over their career, CHILDREN OF BODOM released ten studio albums, two live albums, two EPs, two compilation albums and one DVD. The final lineup of the group upon their split in 2019 consisted of Laiho (lead guitar, lead vocals),Raatikainen (drums),Seppälä (bass),Wirman (keyboards) and Daniel Freyberg (rhythm guitar).

In a July 2023 interview with BLABBERMOUTH.NET, Wirman opened up about the string of events that led to the band's 2019 demise and the deterioration of Laiho's health.

"Alexi's downfall started in 2016," Janne said. "I don't know what caused him to do that. He told me but didn't tell anyone else in the band — he made sure no one else was in the room — and told me, 'Dude, from now on, I'm going to drink until I die.' I said, 'Fuck, man. You can't say that to me.' He said it another time in 2018. I knew that was what he was doing — he said he wouldn't take any help for his medical issues. He was going to keep drinking. That's what he did, which is fucking crazy."

Janne continued: "A lot of people who haven't had a family friend or work buddy or someone who is sick with alcoholism, a lot of people don't understand you cannot help the person who doesn't want help. He had decided he didn't want help and would keep drinking until he died. That's what he did."

Wirmen then detailed BODOM's final years, beset by infighting largely stemming from Laiho's substance abuse issues. "The last years were pretty bad," he said. "There was a lot of bullshit. It's so crazy because he was in such a good place a couple of years before. He was happy about being sober and on tour, and the shows were good. I don't know what happened to him. Something pushed him over the edge where he decided, 'Fuck it. I'm going to keep drinking.'"

Alexi's ashes were buried in December 2021 — nearly a year after his tragic passing. He was laid to rest at the Malmi Cemetery, a large cemetery located in the Malmi district in Helsinki, Finland.

Alexi and Jaska founded CHILDREN OF BODOM in 1993, and the band was one of the most internationally acclaimed metal acts in Finland up until their very last farewell concert. In 2020, Alexi put together BODOM AFTER MIDNIGHT, which recorded three songs and shot one music video, all of which were released posthumously.

Besides CHILDREN OF BODOM, Laiho had played in such acts as WARMEN, SINERGY, KYLÄHULLUT and THE LOCAL BAND. Awarded with a Metal Hammer Golden God and several other international prizes, the guitarist was also the main star, leading a group of one hundred guitar players at the Helsinki Festival in 2015 in "100 Guitars From Hel" — a massive concert piece he composed.

In 2022, Wirman, Raatikainen and Seppälä discussed publicly for the first time the circumstances that led to the band's split and ultimately Laiho's death. In an interview with Finland's Helsingin Sanomat, the three surviving members of CHILDREN OF BODOM said the real reason for the band's breakup was not that they wanted to stop touring in order to spend more time with their families, which is how Laiho explained it to Helsingin Sanomat in November 2019. Instead, what caused the group to split was Laiho's substance abuse, and that is also what eventually killed him a year after they went their separate ways.

Laiho's addiction began to take a serious toll on CHILDREN OF BODOM in 2008, when the band was the support act on a SLIPKNOT tour. In the ensuing years, Laiho promised his bandmates that he would not drink on the road anymore. Although he kept his word for a few years, Alexi "went into a tailspin again in 2016," according to Wirman. Laiho, who had a substantial income as COB's main songwriter (all other income, from gigs to merchandise, was split equally),repeatedly complained that his income was declining and threatened to pull himself out of the limited liability company, AA & Sewira Consulting Oy, he and the other members formed in 2003.

After CHILDREN OF BODOM's manager brought up Laiho's substance abuse at a business meeting in New York in early 2019, Alexi refused to go into rehabilitation but did agree to see a doctor. He was diagnosed with diabetes, and he began taking medication to treat the condition.

In the summer of 2019, Laiho filed an application with the Finnish Patent And Registration Office to register the CHILDREN OF BODOM name to Laiho. This infuriated his bandmates who saw this as an attempt to hijack the name and brand that was controlled by the group's LLC.

During CHILDREN OF BODOM's tour of Russia in October 2019, Laiho "was hitting the bottle like back in 2008," his bandmates told Helsingin Sanomat.

"I told Alexi that you don't usually drink starting at breakfast before a gig, and now you don't even warm up with the guitar before going on stage like you always do," Raatikainen recalled.

Laiho later apologized and stopped drinking for the last concerts of the tour.

"His hands were shaking for two days, but the gigs in Moscow and St Petersburg went pretty well," Raatikainen said.

Raatikainen, Seppälä and Wirman decided to go with Alexi's wish from a few years back and buy him out of the LLC. Laiho retained the rights to his music and was paid royalties on performances and record sales as before, but sold his part of the LLC that owns the name of the band and the merchandising rights.

According to the trio, Alexi was sober for CHILDREN OF BODOM's entire final tour of Finland in December 2019 and he "exchanged cordial messages" with them even after the start of the pandemic.

Alexi's sister Anna Laiho told Helsingin Sanomat that the three surviving members of CHILDREN OF BODOM "have the full support of our family."

Anna, Alexi's Australian wife Kelli Wright-Laiho and a few close friends attempted to get him professional help in the fall of 2020, but he refused.

"At heart, he was a warm and caring person, always ready to help others. But he had his demons, and he wanted to fight those alone", Alexi's sister said. "He wanted to make his own choices. For better or worse."
Teaser: Janne and Antti Wirmen from Warman and formerly of Children of Bodom! Some real world discussion about what, if anything, they could have done to save Alexi Laiho.

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Teaser: Janne and Antti Wirmen from Warman and formerly of Children of Bodom! Some real world discussion about what, if anything, they could have done to save Alexi Laiho.

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11 июл 2025

gravitgroove

Классическая ситуация. Говоришь человеку" завязывай, борись!", а в ответ слышишь - "да на хуя оно надо, после 30 ти - не жизнь, а борьба, и никакой радости"

11 июл 2025

father

gravitgroove, и идёт сначала на костылях в пятёрочку за бухлом, а потом строчит на дарксайде о том, как ебёт Джессику, приглашая трахнуть свою дочь

father, отлично!

Интересно, а могли ли эти друзья действительно как-то помочь Лайхо, или его уход был вопросом времени?

11 июл 2025

Corpsegrinder04

Орион, если человек сам завязывать не хочет, ему не то что друзья, ему мать с детьми родными не помогут.
А Лайхо "профессиональным" хануриком был с 25-ти летним стажем ещё и слабовольный с поехавшей кукухой.
О чём тут вообще говорить, если у него после дебютника в середине 90-х уже были срывы психологические, что он там транквализаторами обкалывался. Ещё тогда еле откачали, чуть не помер, а ему было всего 18 лет.
Такой же как Высоцкий по своей сути. Человек огромного таланта, которому всегда был нужен "вечный двигатель". Без которого жизнь не мила.

11 июл 2025

Rocky Wolfsson

Орион, если только родные. У него же была сестра старшая, которую он любил и уважал. Вот если бы она его вовремя подзатыльниками подбадривала...

11 июл 2025

Nord61

Rocky Wolfsson, нет, никакие подзатыльники от самых родных и уважаемых людей не помогут, если сам человек не хочет ничего менять. Лайхо, очевидно, не хотел.

Среди рокеров полно примеров как тех, кто совершенно без тормозов нёсся в могилу и довольно быстро туда попал (Джими Хендрикс, Фил Лайнотт, Джим Моррисон, Джон Бонэм, Бон Скотт, Кит Мун, Дэвид Байрон, Томми Болин, тысячи их), так и тех, кто добравшись до самого края, сумел оттуда соскочить - потому что захотел сам, и принял соответствующее решение (Элис Купер, Стивен Тайлер, Михаэль Шенкер, Фил Могг, Кен Хенсли).

P.S. Из первой категории исключаем Лемми и Пита Уэя, которые не особо парясь о здоровье, ухитрились прожить аж по 70 лет (видимо, за счёт индивидуальных особенностей организмов, феноменально долго сопротивлявшихся систематическому отравлению).
Ко второй не причисляем Осборна, т.к. все его лечения и рехабы - железная воля Шэрон, которой тряпка Оззи подчинился. Он и сам признавал, что без неё "отъехал" бы ещё в 80-х, передознувшись коксом.

11 июл 2025

Rocky Wolfsson

Nord61, в том то и смысл, что должен быть близкий человек рядом, способный хоть как-то сдержать и предотвратить зависимость (пример с Оззи тут кстати). Или должно произойти событие, ломающее отношение к миру и окружению, как было с Дэйвом Гаэном, Трентом Рензором.

11 июл 2025

Marvin

Nord61, вот здесь да. Шэрон, конечно, баба до денег невероятно жадная, но без нее Оззи сыграл бы в ящик еще лет 30 - 35 назад, если не раньше.

11 июл 2025

Marvin

Орион, увы, маловероятно... Если человек решил сам, по собственной воле, допиться до смерти, то ему не сможет помешать никто и ничто... В такой ситуации сделать что-то в принципе невозможно...

15 июл 2025

Nerferoth Drake

Орион, думаю, вряд ли. У меня так друг помер в прошлом году от алкашки. До 50 не дожил. Я тоже думал, может, что нужно было делать, убедить как-то бросить это все и остановить движение по наклонной плоскости. Но потом понял, что не стоит корить себя, раз уж даже родители и сестра не этой задачей не справились. Единственное, что тут можно сделать ради памяти людей с такими проблемами — извлечь из их трагедии урок для себя и своих близких, чтобы жизнь и смерть не была совсем уж напрасными.

11 июл 2025

Lord Iscariah

Бухать это вам не спортом заниматься! Тут реально здоровье нужно иметь!