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Children of Bodom

Финляндия

Death Metal

http://www.cobhc.com
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/childrenofbodom
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/childrenofbodom

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
25 авг 2021 :	Ex-CHILDREN OF BODOM Guitarist Says His Former Bandmates Were 'Already Dead' To Him Before ALEXI LAIHO's Passing
8 июн 2021 :	CHILDREN OF BODOM - Limited Edition Coloured Vinyl LP Re-Issues To Be Released In October; Now Available For Pre-Order
15 май 2021 :	MOON SHOT Featuring Former CHILDREN OF BODOM Bassist: 'Confession' Single Out Now
27 апр 2021 :	Late CHILDREN OF BODOM Frontman ALEXI LAIHO's Personally Owned Gear Is Now Up For Sale By His Estate
23 апр 2021 :	Former CHILDREN OF BODOM Guitarist ALEXANDER KUOPPALA Shares Memories Of Working With ALEXI LAIHO, Talks New Band THYRARGO In Exclusive Kaaos TV Interview
23 мар 2021 :	CHILDREN OF BODOM Socks Available Now; 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'

Former CHILDREN OF BODOM members Jaska Raatikainen (drums),Henri "Henkka T. Blacksmith" Seppälä (bass) and Janne Wirman (keyboards) have opened up about the real reasons behind the band's breakup, explaining that "the fans have a right to know what happened."

Raatikainen, Seppälä and Wirman announced their departures from CHILDREN OF BODOM in October 2019. A couple of months later, they issued a statement denying that they quit because they had families to support or wanted to retire. "Music is our profession and our lives, and all our families know that," they said at the time.

CHILDREN OF BODOM frontman Alexi Laiho 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 a brand new in-depth interview with Finland's Helsingin Sanomat, Raatikainen, Seppälä and Wirman discussed publicly for the first time the circumstances that led to CHILDREN OF BODOM's split and ultimately Laiho's death.

According to the three surviving members of CHILDREN OF BODOM, 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 CHIDLREN 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."

Read Helsingin Sanomat's entire in-depth article at this location.

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 December of 2019. 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.

CHILDREN OF BODOM's latest album, "Hexed", came out in March 2019 via Nuclear Blast Records.

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12 май 2022

father

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12 май 2022

olly71

Интересное чтиво. Побольше бы такого на этом сайте.

12 май 2022

father

olly71, увы, нечасто в группах нормальные отношения, которые позволяют даже при таких наркозакидонах всё обсудить и не наломать дров с последующими обвинениями бывших во всех грехах на протяжении десятков лет

12 май 2022

Blindman

olly71, никто не читает много букв, это исключительно моя блашшшь и уважение к группе, а так очередной час потерянного времени

13 май 2022

Hellg

Blindman, спасибо за текст! Группу эту не очень люблю, но читать было интересно и новость проливает свет на многое в их биографии.

12 май 2022

sibterminator

Про Бодунов наверно получился бы неплохой байопик.

12 май 2022

Hellg

Прямо настоящая драма.
Уважуха, что у Лайхо, несмотря ни на что, получилось сохранить человеческое лицо.

12 май 2022

SS-ULTRA

>>>«Это говорила болезнь, а не Алекси»

Судя по всему, пытался оставаться человеком до конца. И судя по этому тексту, это у него получилось. Некоторые и в трезвом виде на такое не способны.
Очень жаль, что так всё закончилось.

19 май 2022

SYMPHOHELL

Многое раскрыто оказалось с этими интервью… Алекси на всегда в наших метал-сердцах! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻