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Children of Bodom

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29 июн 2026 :	CHILDREN OF BODOM To Peform At Finland's TUSKA And PROVINSSI Festivals In 2027
30 апр 2026 :
14 апр 2026 :
13 апр 2026 :	CHILDREN OF BODOM's JANNE WIRMAN Confirms Plans For More 'Celebration Of Music' Concerts In 2027: 'It's Gonna Continue'
27 фев 2026 :	Watch: CHILDREN OF BODOM Members Play First 'A Celebration Of Music' Concert In Helsinki
5 янв 2026 :
19 ноя 2025 :
29 окт 2025 :	CHILDREN OF BODOM Announce A Celebration Of Music In Tribute To ALEXI LAIHO For February 2026; Tickets On Sale Tomorrow
15 сен 2025 :	CHILDREN OF BODOM – A Tribute To The Reaper To Be Released This Month; CD Sampler Available In October
2 авг 2025 :
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

29 июн 2026

CHILDREN OF BODOM To Peform At Finland's TUSKA And PROVINSSI Festivals In 2027

Finnish metallers CHILDREN OF BODOM will co-headline the 2027 edition the Tuska festival, set to take place July 2-4, 2027 in Suvilahti, Helsinki, Finland. They will also perform at Provinssi, which will be held July 1-3, 2027 in Seinajoki, Finland.

Tuska 2027 limited early crow three-day tickets will go on sale on Monday, June 29 at 9:00 and will be available until Wednesday, July 1 at 23:59, or while supplies last.

The limited early crow ticket batch is available exclusively to Tuska newsletter subscribers. If you are not yet subscribed, join now at tuska.fi/limited-early-crow to receive a code via email on Monday morning, granting access to the lowest possible price for a Tuska 2027 three-day ticket: €229.00. The age limit for the festival is 18+.

This past February, members of CHILDREN OF BODOM played two shows celebrating the group's music at the Tavastia club in Helsinki. The concerts, dubbed "Children Of Bodom – A Celebration Of Music", featured original CHILDREN OF BODOM members, bassist Henkka Seppälä, keyboardist Janne Wirman, drummer Jaska Raatikainen and early guitarist Alexander Kuoppala, along with longtime friend Samy Elbanna, known from the band LOST SOCIETY, paying tribute to CHILDREN OF BODOM guitarist/vocalist and main songwriter Alexi Laiho, who passed away on December 29, 2020 in his home in Helsinki, Finland. He died of 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.

In an April 2026 interview with Ed Hack of This Day In Metal, Wirman was asked why now was the right time for the CHILDREN OF BODOM to regroup and honor Laiho in this way. He responded: "We've gotten some requests and we've said 'no' to everything. But then this one guy, who is now our booking agent, from Austria, Dominik, he contacted us and he was convincing enough. Like, 'Guys, I have so many requests for BODOM shows.' And we replied to him politely that we don't have a band. We just have three guys and a legacy. And he goes, like, 'Can I come to Helsinki and meet you?' We were, like, 'Okay, fine.' And this guy flies to Helsinki and we meet him for dinner. He turns out to be a super-nice guy, someone we could work with."

He continued: "Back in the day, BODOM, it was such a tight family. Everyone needed to kind of fit in — like a manager, booking agent, we always kind of needed to know these guys, that they really fit to the picture. So this guy kind of was very convincing. And this was a couple of years ago. And then we started thinking, like, 'Okay, well, if we ever gonna play any shows, how are we gonna approach it? And then we hired our old manager Steve [Davis] back, 'cause Steve is a mastermind and a genius in his own really fucked up way. And he said that, 'Guys, how we are gonna do this is that we're gonna celebrate the music, 'cause that's what we have — we have the music.' And then that's how we started unraveling. And, yeah, that's where we are right now."

Regarding Elbanna's performance at the two shows CHILDREN OF BODOM played at the Tavastia, Wirman said: "Dude, he was on fire. And he was so well practiced already when we had our first like band practice. Three months prior, four months prior to the shows, when we started practicing, he already knew everything, and I was just starting to remember, like, 'How the fuck was this again?' So he was so well prepared, so well practiced. He's a young and enthusiastic little kid, and I love him. And he's been practicing a lot. I think it takes a lot of practice for someone to be able to pull off everything that Alexi put on those albums. I think his performance was flawless. All the guitar solos, all the guitar leads were just perfect.

"Of course, we all know how fucking talented Alexi was, but that was something we were always in awe of, how he could play the most complex riff and then sing at the same time or shout or whatever," Janne continued. "And I know there were some parts that were really difficult for Samy, but he pulled it off. I don't even know, and I cannot even understand how much he had to have been practicing."

Asked what is was like for him personally to perform the CHILDREN OF BODOM music again after so long, Janne said: "I had no idea [what to expect]. No one could have predicted… We had been rehearsing for months, and, like I said, I think Samy was the most confident player at the rehearsals. He was doing fine all the time, and I was still finding my way around the BODOM songs. And then I knew that we're gonna do this video installation [to present to the audience at the beginning of the show], and then Alexi is gonna speak and there's gonna be all these photos and whatever. So going on stage the first night, I really had no idea if I'm gonna start crying. Is the whole audience gonna be crying when we go out? Literally from the moment we went on stage, we were all panicking back there, like, 'What the fuck is gonna happen?' And the crowd was kind of quiet during the video installation, which I understand, 'cause you wanna hear the dialogue. So the first 15 seconds I walked on stage, I had no idea what's gonna fucking happen, but then I see the immediate crowd reaction to the music, and then I knew, like, 'Fuck, this is gonna be a good time.' And it was a good time."

Elaborating on the musical chemistry between all the musicians who were on stage those two nights, Janne said: "I tried to kind of describe it as that something magical happened. 'Cause no one knew what was gonna happen the first night. It could have been falling apart, and we could all just been crying and, like, 'Why the fuck are we here?' So something truly magical happened in terms also [of] how tight the band was. 'Cause, if I'm honest, some of the rehearsals were not tight at all. So it was the crowd reaction. And sometimes you need that. And when the crowd makes you do your best, that's when it's beautiful."

Wirman also addressed the possibility of further live performances in celebration of CHILDREN OF BODOM's music and Laiho. He said: "It was a very special event, and we knew that two nights was not gonna be enough kind of to feed the [fan interest]. We knew that a lot of people are gonna be asking for tickets. And I also panicked the last minute — I told the management, like, 'Why don't we extend this?' But that's how we had originally planned it — just two nights, and that's it."

Asked point blank if there is chance that we haven't seen the last of CHILDREN OF BODOM's live shows, Janne said: "Yes, there is. I mean, we said that next year the celebration is gonna continue, so it's gonna continue."

The official CHILDREN OF BODOM book was published in August 2025 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 Seppälä, Wirman, Raatikainen and 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 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.

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. 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."

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."

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29 июн 2026

mohnatiy

Ну всё, запустили денежную машину, видимо всё проели за эти года.

29 июн 2026

smolet18-02-44

Блин, кто им музыку писать то будет, 90 процентов материала сочинял пойкойный Лайхо.

30 июн 2026

olly71

smolet18-02-44, новую музыку сочиняют те у кого старая плохая . Лёха этим насочинял столько что им до конца жизни хватит старое играть состоввляя каждый год разные сет листы из старых альбомов. . И что обидно наследники Лёхи ничего этой цирковой бригаде предьявить не могут он же продал все свои права на марку перед смертью.

29 июн 2026

smolet18-02-44

Я вот не припомню что бы так клонировали покойных кумиров. Хотя может "Death to All", но там хоть название другое. Закк иммеет свой музыкальный почерк, который его отличает в Пантере, одевается как обычно, не косит по Деймбега. Здесь же даже ногти в черный цвет покрасил. Хз, запрос на Бодом есть конечно, но насколько хватит этой группы?

29 июн 2026

father

smolet18-02-44, так Static-X же. А новая музыка - да больно она нужна, для стабильных гастролей уже всё есть, а Пантера создала прецедент, после которого 4/5 оригинального состава CoB это абсолютная легитимность

29 июн 2026

vobk

father, у Статиков кстати неплохо вышло, как и у Фир Фактори имхо

29 июн 2026

gravitgroove

На Youtube его что ли нашли? Нынче таких самородков полно, которые играют лучше, чем вчерашние легенды шреда. Даже как-то скучно.

29 июн 2026

mohnatiy

gravitgroove, вроде как кореш Лайхи, как я понял. А может и нет)

The band toured with Children of Bodom in late 2013

Но изображает Лайху четко, как по мне. Сами Ебланы хорош!

29 июн 2026

father

gravitgroove, из Lost Society чувачок, далеко не ноунейм

30 июн 2026

ElectricRetard

Children Of Bodom Inc?
Children Of Bodom A.D?
Кстати в этом случае ничего против не имею, если это будет концертный вариант.
У Пантеры то основная залупа в том, что ты осознаешь, что братья в гробу вертятся глядя на этот пиздец. Плюс очень гнусные, фальшивые комментарии участников. Здесь же какие-то рандомные выступления, можно даже сказать чтят память. Посмотрим в каком формате оно дальше будет.

30 июн 2026

Gleb Monster

блямда. прошлое выступление этого состава было хорошим, но была надежда, что это будет разовое явление…

30 июн 2026

Privateer

Вся группа держалась на таланте Алекси. Тексты, музыку к практически всему за исключением пары песен за все время написал он. И бОльшая часть выплат, которые идут музыкантам, со всяких стримингов идет представителям Лайхо, а остальным в сумме шло меньше чем ему одному. Права на название и мерч после 2019 только у них троих, соответственно им очень даже выгодно подзаработать концертами.

Забили на друга, забрали название, теперь без него будут ездить и "чтить его музыку". Взяли бы другое название - вопросов было бы меньше. А сейчас это выглядит как деньги кончились. И этими фестами ничего не закончится, Вирман же уже говорил что будут ездить раз спрос есть. А раз есть спрос, можно сколько угодно говорить что это не ради денег, а ради фанатов.

Ну а Сэми это конечно Алекси с АлиЭкспресса. Как исполнитель судя по этому концерту он норм, но выглядит это все конечно...

30 июн 2026

ElectricRetard

Privateer, >Забили на друга, забрали название
Насколько я шарю в теме, а в теме я шарю плохо, лидер спился в нулину, видать от группы появились некие претензии по этому поводу, из чего вышла ситуация в духе "да вы тут никто, один я группу тащу" - справедливо, но у группы возникли вопросы, рассудили "по факту" в итоге, и чел ушел забацать новый бенд, но случилось то, что случилось. Так что у меня тут особо претензий к группе нет. По крайней мере они не рассказывают что на сцене происходит магия и это считай та самая Панте... Тьфу, ЧОБ.

30 июн 2026

Privateer

ElectricRetard, ну, по факту да, все чуть по другому. Лайхо хотел забрать название (и он по сути и достоин названия), ему не дали и выкупили его долю. В итоге он ушел делать музыку в Bodom After Midnight.

Получилось так что Лайхо хотел продолжать делать музыку, но они не хотели уже делать музыку с ним, еще и название группы забрали. По сути своим отношением типа "пошел ты нахер, мы с тобой больше не хотим играть" + то, что у него забрали название группы, которое он и сделал популярным могло и добить Лайхо и привести к такому исходу. Поэтому я и говорю что они забили на друга, еще и возможно как раз добили его, а теперь такие офигенные и "чтят его память".

Это примерно как если бы права на название Van Halen в итоге оказались у Майка Энтони и Сэмми Хагара.

А теперь взяли удобного человека вместо Лайхо, который участвуя в tribute бэнде заработает больше чем на своей группе, и могут зарабатывать на его музыке дальше, и даже писать ничего не надо больше (да они и не смогут)

30 июн 2026

YNWA

Ну, спасибо что не голограмма)

30 июн 2026

ElectricRetard

YNWA, дарксайд все ждет когда на замену голограммам придут гомограммы.