(CNN) – Alexi Laiho, leader of the Finnish metal band Children of Bodom and the supergroup Bodom After Midnight, failed, confirming his discographic note. For 41 years, he has been a CNN presenter.
“It is a great pity and sadness that we are announcing the failure of Alexi Laiho”, was announced in a statement issued by Napalm Records, in the name of Bodom After Midnight.
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“We are absolutely devastated and discouraged by the loss of our beloved friend and member of the band”, added the statement, signed by the band partners Daniel, Mitja and Waltteri.
A communiqué on the official Facebook page of Laiho says that the music was mourned at his home in Helsinki last week. Add to that the supremacy of health problems and long-term illness during their last years.
Alexi Laiho and Children of Bodom
Laiho was the guitarist and vocalist of the metal band Children of Bodom, which was formed in 1993 with the number of IneartheD, it seems that the group played its last concert in 2019.
The band has sold more than 250,000 discs in Finland and is one of the artists with the most sales in the country, according to its web site. Laiho was chosen as “Mejor Guitarrista de Metal” by the readers of the magazine Guitar World.
The guitarist received various other international awards for his music in a gala song with a metal Hammer Golden Gods award, following the Bodom After Midnight representation agency.
In 2015, he conducted a group of 100 guitarists at the Helsinki Festival to perform a composition by his author, “100 Guitars From Hel”.
Laiho luego formo the supergroup Bodom na middernag. The group grabbed three songs and a music video, material that will be launched in the form of a post, following a communication on its official Facebook page.
In addition to Children of Bodom, the guitarist was also associated with the acts Warmen, Sinergy, Kylähullut and The Local Band, dijo el comunicado, firmad la la genence de Bodom After Midnight.
“Alexi was the most caricatured and magnificent father and son,” said Kelli Wright-Laiho in a statement. “Our roses are staring red forever”.