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Alexi Laiho, front man for Finnish metal band Children of Bodom, dies suddenly at 41
Alexi Laiho, entrance man for Finnish metallic band Children of Bodom and supergroup Bodom After Midnight, has died, his file label has confirmed. He was 41, his administration instructed CNN.
“It’s with heavy hearts and nice disappointment that we’ve got to announce the passing of Alexi Laiho,” a press release launched by Napalm Data, on behalf of Bodom After Midnight, mentioned.
“We’re completely devastated and heartbroken for the sudden lack of our pricey good friend and band member,” the assertion, signed by bandmates Daniel, Mitja and Waltteri, added.
An announcement on Laiho’s official Fb web page mentioned the musician died in his Helsinki house final week, including that he suffered from long-term well being points throughout his final years.
Laiho was the guitarist and vocalist of metallic band Children of Bodom, which was shaped in 1993 underneath the title IneartheD, till the group performed their closing present in 2019.
The band have offered greater than 250,000 information of their native Finland, and are one of many nation‘s bestselling artists, in response to their web site, with Laiho voted “Greatest Steel Guitarist” by readers of Guitar World journal.
The guitarist obtained a number of different worldwide prizes for his music, and had been awarded a Steel Hammer Golden Gods prize, in response to the administration of Bodom After Midnight.
In 2015, he led a gaggle of 100 guitar gamers at Helsinki Competition in 2015 in enjoying his personal composition, “100 Guitars From Hel.”
Laiho later shaped supergroup Bodom After Midnight. The group recorded three songs and shot a music video, which will probably be launched posthumously, in response to a press release on his official Fb web page.
Along with Children of Bodom, the guitarist was additionally related to acts Warmen, Sinergy, Kylähullut and The Native Band, the assertion, signed by Bodom After Midnight administration, mentioned.
“Alexi was essentially the most loving and sumptuous husband and father,” his spouse Kelli Wright-Laiho mentioned in a press release. “Our hearts are eternally damaged.”
