
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.
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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. A few relapse has become, but in the deepest depression or anxiety attacks are missed, fortunately, history.ĭon't stay alone – mental health problems and suicidal thoughts is available for comprehensive support.“I think my rib was sticking into one of my muscles,” he later told this writer. Maybe you should rather call friends than to cut herself alone in the dark butterfly knife. – the healing process started when I reasoned that I strive to channel that shit and anger to the music. There I was pumped full of tranquilizers and sleeping pills with the result that I slept like a scream in a few days. I Was in that condition, that I ended up for a while closed. Laiho went to the psychiatrist, who saw how close to psychosis man and called the ambulance. The situation calmed down for a while, but eventually the anxiety deepened. Guitarist Alexander Kuoppala arrived unexpectedly on the scene and took Laihon the same road to the hospital.

Laiho was some time to the psychiatric outpatient department.įrom There on, I was so depressed, however, worse than ever before, drinking and started on a rampage with various knives and with knives. ”Nothing interested in, all the sick”, Laiho describes Gothenburg downward spiral. Return to Finland after Laiho filed Jorviin and a psychiatrist. They were also forced to break down the bathroom door because I had locked it from the inside.

This girlfriend was supposed to make sure that Laiho stop breathing.

Feel, I can't do anything, Laiho told in the book. I wanted to stop everything and gargle with the whiskey after him. – There, something happened, and as a result I ran to Kim's house, locked yourself in the bathroom and kouri medicine cabinet into your mouth everything possible. One night, Laiho was a Whore-a band with Gothenburg city, when she collapsed. He said that he tried to avoid the crash by all means, but it didn't help: a small thing ”caused a break down”. The band's success in Europe and over Japan-market Laihon be in the 19-year-old. Laiho told openly how drifted into mental collapse in the late 1990s. Jenni GŠstgivar, Jenni GästgivarĬhildren of Bodom -the band's founder member, singer-guitarist Alexi Laiho, 39, once in their lives, Petri Silas write the biography of Alexi Laiho – Guitar, chaos & control (Johnny Kniga). Children of Bodom -the band Alexi Laiho finally found help for anxiety, when he realized his anger out in music.Alexi Laiho in 2015.
