He didn’t eat for shit, anyway, and then he never pooped. “He didn’t move at all except if 7-11 was, like, a block away. “He wasn’t very athletic,” says Latvala in a rare interview. The problem, says the guitarist, was that Laiho didn’t take care of himself, especially when he was on a bender. Latvala, who played with Children of Bodom from 2004 to 2015, says Laiho wasn’t the crazed hedonist the press portrayed him as, and went through long stretches of sobriety. He was later diagnosed with stomach ulcers. The party turned dark in 2011 when, after some heavy drinking, Laiho suffered extreme stomach pain, vomited blood for nine hours and was rushed to an L.A. Laiho was unable to play for six weeks this time and had to miss the Dubai Desert Rock Festival. In 2007, he fell in a bowling alley and broke his arm. He was in a cast for a month, forcing the band to cancel their slot on the Dimebag Darrell tribute in Finland. In 2004, he fell off the top of a car, breaking his wrist and smashing up his face. Laiho was obsessive about the band and loved playing and partying with other talented musicians, which sometimes put him in precarious positions when he was just trying to have fun. He later said pouring all of his energy into the band saved his life. In 1998, he tried to kill himself by swallowing 30 tranquilizers with a few shots of whiskey, following the release of Children of Bodom’s first album, Something Wild.
In his late teens, Laiho was a cutter and suffered from depression. Furthermore, he had a cocktail of opioids and insomnia medication in his system.”įor those who knew him over the years it was a shock – but not a complete surprise. Ex-Sinergy vocalist Kimberly Goss, who Laiho married in 2002 and separated from in 2004, posted that the guitar icon died from “alcohol-induced degeneration of the liver and pancreas connective tissue. On December 29, Laiho died from damage sustained from years of alcohol abuse.
ALEXI LAIHO CHAOS CONTROL AND GUITAR FULL
At the end of 2020, however, when a COVID spike prevented BAM from playing any more shows, they decided to take a short break and then start working on a full album. They planned to release the EP, play some more shows, then record a full album.
The group played three shows and recorded three songs for Paint the Sky with Blood. So the two co-formed Bodom After Midnight with bassist Mitja Toivonen (ex-Santa Cruz) and drummer Waltteri Väyrynen. Three other members quit in 2019, leaving just Laiho and Freyberg. “He didn’t want to cancel shows no matter what,” says guitarist Daniel Freyberg, who met Laiho in 2005 and played in Children of Bodom from 2016 to 2019, replacing longtime guitarist Roope Latvala, who was abruptly fired in 2015. There were only four shows left anyway.”Ĭrushed physically and mentally, Laiho flew back to Helsinki, Finland, to heal and prepare for the band’s next scheduled tour. But I’m glad that from Municipal went up there and explained to the crowd what was going on. “I’m sure most of the people didn’t know what the hell was going on, so they just thought I would take off in the middle of the set and not come back. “It’s not a great fucking feeling when you’re playing in front of 3,000 people in New York, and all of a sudden you’re behind the drum riser not being able to breathe and vomiting blood while people are chanting ‘bullshit, bullshit,’” he said. “I felt like someone was stabbing me with a knife into my lungs and my heart. “I think my rib was sticking into one of my muscles,” he later told this writer.
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