I Did It Again Children of Bodom

Finnish melodic death metal band

Children of Bodom
Children of Bodom performing live in 2016
Background information
Likewise known every bit	Inearthed (1993–1997)
Origin	Espoo, Finland
Genres	Melodic decease metallic ability metal
Years active	1993–2019
Labels	Nuclear Boom Spinefarm Century Media
Associated acts	Bodom Afterward Midnight
Website	cobhc.com
By members	Alexi Laiho Daniel Freyberg Jaska Raatikainen Henkka T. Blacksmith Janne Wirman Samuli Miettinen Alexander Kuoppala Jani Pirisjoki Roope Latvala Antti Wirman

Children of Bodom was a Finnish melodic decease metal band from Espoo. Formed in 1993 equally Inearthed, the final line-up of the grouping upon their split in 2022 consisted of Alexi Laiho (lead guitar, lead vocals), Jaska Raatikainen (drums), Henkka Seppälä (bass), Janne Wirman (keyboard), and Daniel Freyberg (rhythm guitar). The band released ten studio albums, two live albums, ii EPs, two compilation albums and ane DVD.

The ring'due south third studio album, Follow the Reaper, was their first album to receive a gold certification in Finland, and subsequent studio albums acquired the aforementioned status. Their adjacent 4 albums debuted at number ane on the Finnish album charts,^[ane] and have too seen chart positions on the United states of america Billboard 200. They are 1 of Republic of finland's best selling artists of all fourth dimension with more than than 250,000 records sold there alone.

In 2019, Children of Bodom held their last concert in Helsinki named A Affiliate Called Children of Bodom, before disbanding the ring. Laiho and Freyberg carried on as Bodom After Midnight in 2020.^[2] Laiho, who was one of the founding members of Children of Bodom every bit well as the only main songwriter, died on 29 December 2020.^{[three] [iv] [v]}

History [edit]

Formation and early years (1993–1996) [edit]

Children of Bodom was formed in 1993 by guitarist Alexi "Wildchild" Laiho and drummer Jaska Raatikainen under the proper name of Inearthed. They had known each other since early on childhood and had shared an interest in heavy metal, specially death metal groups, such as Dissection, Entombed, Cannibal Corpse, Autopsy, and Obituary and classic metal groups such as Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Dio, and Ozzy Osbourne. Bassist Samuli Miettinen completed the initial line-up of the band. Inearthed recorded its first demo, Implosion of Sky, during August of the same year.

Lead guitarist and singer Alexi Laiho in 2007

Samuli was the principal composer of the band's lyrics for the two years that he took function in Inearthed, simply his family moved to the United States in 1995, making information technology impossible for him to remain in the ring. His concluding contributions to Inearthed were the lyrics of the songs from their second demo, Ubiquitous Absenteeism of Remission which was the first time they worked with producer Anssi Kippo at Astia-studios (Lappeenranta, Finland). In this demo, keyboards were incorporated into the band's songs for the first time. In order to achieve this, both Laiho and Raatikainen played the keyboards separately and later on mixed the recorded track with the other instruments. Laiho, who had previously but composed the melodies of the songs, assumed the role of the band's lyricist.

At the time, Raatikainen played French horn in a local large ring, and during a rehearsal, he met Alexander Kuoppala, a trumpet player and also a proficient guitarist. Shortly after the recording of their 2nd demo, Kuoppala was invited to join Inearthed as a rhythm guitarist.

The bassist called to replace Samuli was Henkka "Blacksmith" Seppälä, whom Laiho and Raatikainen had previously known from school. Apart from playing the bass, Seppälä besides often doubles as the band'southward bankroll vocaliser. Also, the band recruited a musician to specialize on keyboards, whose proper name was Jani Pirisjoki. Both joined Inearthed in early 1996.

With this new line-up, Inearthed proceeded to record their tertiary demo, entitled Shining. This demo did not impress tape labels any more the previous ones had, and none took involvement in the band.^[6] Despite their efforts, their music got little exposure and managed only to play at local events. As a last resort, the band decided to record an independent, self-funded album.

Laiho wanted to make use of the keyboards more than finer, but Pirisjoki was not attending rehearsals. Thus, he was fired and replaced by a friend of Raatikainen'due south, a jazz pianist named Janne "Warman" Wirman.^[6]

Wirman was the component which was previously missing from Inearthed. His presence immune the band to assume the style which would later narrate Children of Bodom. With Wirman, the band successfully recorded their first album in 1997. Their debut, Something Wild, was supposed to be released past a small Belgian label, Shiver Records, simply second vocalizer Sami Tenetz (from Thy Ophidian) acquired a re-create of their album through the hands of Kuoppala. They both worked for the same company at the time. Shortly after Inearthed signed this contract, Spinefarm Records' dominate became interested in signing them for a country-wide release.^{[ citation needed ]} The latter deal was much more attractive to the band since the Belgian label was offering them close to no help, to the point where they would have to distribute and sell the album themselves.

The band was required to create a new name to sign up to Spinefarm Records. The contract with Shiver records had already been signed under the name of Inearthed. The reply to that problem came as the members looked for adept names in their local phone volume. When they stumbled upon Lake Bodom, they realized that information technology was a name with touch on and one which had an interesting story behind it. A long listing of possible names involving the word Bodom was then made, and they settled with Children of Bodom. The band'southward proper noun is derived from the Lake Bodom murders.^[vii]

Something Wild and Hatebreeder (1997–1999) [edit]

The original logo (top) was used only on the encompass of the first pressing of the debut album Something Wild in November 1997. Later that, the 2d logo has been in use for every subsequent release.

Something Wild was produced, recorded and mixed by Anssi Kippo and Children of Bodom at Astia-studios (Lappeenranta, Finland). In an attempt to promote their ring, they opened a testify for Dimmu Borgir in 1997. Their success was such that a representative from the Nuclear Blast characterization approached them with a contract for a European release, a deal which started on the subsequent twelvemonth.^{[ citation needed ]} Something Wild was released in belatedly 1997 in Finland and in 1998 worldwide. In early 1998, for promotional purposes, the band recorded a music video of the song "Deadnight Warrior". The video was directed by Mika Lindberg and had a slim budget of €1000. It made use of simple scenery, which consisted essentially of an outdoors location after a snowstorm. The band played for a couple of hours at night, with an average temperature of minus fifteen degrees Celsius.

Although Laiho is very disquisitional of all of the music he has written, he notes that he dislikes Something Wild the near of all of his albums. When recording this album, Laiho had tried to mimic the style of one of his idols, Yngwie Malmsteen, which is why Something Wild is considered one of the most technical albums Children of Bodom accept produced. Despite this, he still considers it to be their "almost important" record, equally it "put them on the map."

Children of Bodom'south first European tour began in February 1998. They played with bands such every bit Hypocrisy (at such festivals every bit Nether the Black Dominicus), The Kovenant and Agathodaimon, merely suffered from the absence of Wirman, who was concentrating on finishing his studies.^{[ citation needed ]} He was replaced by pianist Erna Siikavirta for the elapsing of the bout.

Months afterward, the band recorded two new songs again at Astia-studios with producer Anssi Kippo, entitled "Towards Dead End" and "Children of Bodom". The latter was included in a compilation by Spinefarm Records, which after existence released remained on the pinnacle of Finnish charts for eight sequent weeks.^{[ commendation needed ]} In late August, the ring played the song "Forevermore" alive for the first time during a prove in Russia. This song was later renamed "Downfall".

Their 2d European tour occurred in September of that aforementioned year, but once more Wirman was not able to perform with them. Laiho's then-girlfriend Kimberly Goss (from Sinergy and formerly of Dimmu Borgir, Ancient and Therion) assumed the keyboards this time. Past the finish of the bout, Kimberly invited Laiho to join Sinergy, which at the time was still in its early stages.

The second album, Hatebreeder, was recorded betwixt the end of 1998 and the beginning of 1999 by Anssi Kippo at Astia-studios (Lappeenranta, Republic of finland). It was originally entitled Towards Expressionless End, simply while in studio the members of the band opted for the current title. To create anticipation in Republic of finland, the '"Downfall" single was released two weeks prior to the album'south release. Information technology was accompanied by a new music video, once again directed by Mika Lindberg. Hatebreeder ultimately topped the charts in many European countries. In July 1999, the success of the "Downfall" unmarried and Hatebreeder allowed Children of Bodom to schedule three concerts in Japan with Sinergy and In Flames. During ii of these concerts, the live album Tokyo Warhearts was recorded. In it the ring managed to seamlessly reproduce and at times improve on their songs. At their asking, no overdubs were used on the recording of the concert.

Rise to popularity: Follow the Reaper and Hate Crew Deathroll (2000–2003) [edit]

For their adjacent release, Children of Bodom decided to make use of Peter Tägtgren's Abyss studio in Sweden instead of the Finnish Astia-studio from Anssi Kippo where they had recorded all of their previous releases including the demos from Inearthed. The ring wrote viii songs for the anthology. While in the studio, they decided to include an extra track that was hastily composed and featured lyrics improvised past Laiho; that rails would eventually receive the name of "Kissing the Shadows". The band gave the album the proper name of Follow the Reaper and recording sessions took place betwixt Baronial and September 2000; the album saw a worldwide release in late 2000. A music video for "Everytime I Dice" was recorded by the Finnish manager Tuukka Temonen shortly after.

In February 2002, Children of Bodom began writing songs for their upcoming album, entitled Hate Coiffure Deathroll. They returned to Astia-studio (Lappeenranta, Finland) to work with producer Anssi Kippo again. The session ensued during the months of Baronial and September, and the album was released Jan 2003 in Republic of finland. It remained on the top of the Finnish charts for a total of iii weeks and subsequently became the band'due south first gold anthology. Eventually, all of the ring'due south albums reached this status and Follow the Reaper reached platinum.

On 3 Jan 2003, the Finnish Metallic Music Awards were held at Tavastia Social club in Helsinki. Voting was open to all the metal fans and was presented through the various media outlets that were working with the effect'southward organizers. Children of Bodom was awarded Finnish Band of the Year.^[eight]

Children of Bodom'due south first world bout began in 2003 and lasted until late 2004. The bout had many sold-out concerts and marked the consolidation of the band in North America, but was also accompanied past an unexpected proclamation: Kuoppala decided to quit Children of Bodom for personal reasons right in the middle of the tour without giving previous alarm. In an interview, when Laiho was asked why Kuoppala left the band, he stated that "Well, I try to be careful about what I say about him because at that place is no bad blood between us. He told me that he just got sick of touring and the whole band/stone 'north roll lifestyle living in hotels and bout buses and stuff. For me it was really weird considering he was ever the ane who was And then into information technology! He was a dice hard rock 'n roller and suddenly he fabricated a quick 180 turn in his whole life. This whole situation involves a new girlfriend."^[ix] Griffin's guitarist Kai Nergaard was invited past Laiho to replace Kuoppala, but did not have the offering. Thus, Alexi'south bandmate from Sinergy, Roope Latvala (founding member of Stone, one of the bands which started the heavy metal movement in Finland) causeless the guitars as a session player, until a more permanent solution could be found. This formation was introduced in Moscow on sixteen August.

Breakthrough with Are You Expressionless Yet? (2004–2006) [edit]

After finishing the earth tour with Latvala – who then causeless a permanent position in the band's line-upward – Children of Bodom proceeded to record and release the EP Trashed, Lost & Strungout and the single "In Your Face", which contained songs from their upcoming album and a parody cover of "Oops!... I Did Information technology Again" by Britney Spears. In late 2005, the album Are You Dead Yet? was released, featuring a style different from what had been presented by the band on its previous works. Simpler and heavier guitar riffs were incorporated into Children of Bodom'southward sound, as well every bit elements from industrial music. Reactions from fans to the release were varied; however, the album remains the band'southward most commercially successful. Information technology was awarded gold status in Finland and reached kickoff place on the Finnish charts, 16th in Germany, xvi in Sweden and 17 in Japan. The side by side release of the ring was a DVD-single for the song "In Your Face", which included the music video, backstage footage from the ring and a live recording of the vocal "Sixpounder" at Wacken Open up Air festival in 2004. In June, Children of Bodom was in forepart of 120,000 spectators, one of their biggest concerts, on the last concert of the Böhse Onkelz. The DVD of the concert, chosen Vaya Con Tioz, includes Children of Bodom's performance of "Everytime I Dice".

Children of Bodom's live DVD Anarchy Ridden Years - Stockholm Knockout Live was released on 5 December 2006. Information technology contains a recording of a live concert performed on 5 Feb 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden, with over 90 minutes of live footage. "Chaos Ridden Years" refers to a documentary featuring interviews with band members about the history of the band and footage of the band on tour. Information technology also contains every music video Children of Bodom has made, except for "Needled 24/7". Guitarist Alexi Laiho was voted world's best guitarist of 2006 by Metal Hammer magazine.

In June 2006, the band embarked on one of their biggest tours: The Unholy Alliance bout, playing aslope Slayer, Lamb of God, Mastodon, In Flames and Thine Optics Drain. The bands toured the United states through June and July, and Europe through Oct and November.

On 31 Jan 2007, Laiho slid downward the lane at a bowling alley after accidentally stepping over the foul line. He slammed hard into the wall, breaking his left shoulder. This rendered him unable to play guitar for six weeks. Due to this incident, Children of Bodom was forced to abolish their first 2007 tours, and a festival that they were slated to headline.

On 31 March 2007, the ring's website released information on Laiho'due south condition stating that while Laiho's injury will never fully heal, it no longer affects his power to play the guitar. The same notice also stated that the ring had already written some songs for a new album and would get-go recording sometime later in 2007.^[10]

Blooddrunk and Relentless Reckless Forever (2007–2009) [edit]

From Oct to December 2007, Children of Bodom recorded their sixth studio album, entitled Blooddrunk, which was released on 15 April 2008.^[11] The anthology contained 10 songs including a cover of "Ghost Riders in the Sky". Children of Bodom was featured on the Gigantour 2008 Northward American tour with Megadeth, In Flames, Job for a Cowboy and High on Fire.^[12] Children of Bodom was 1 of the outset bands to be confirmed for Wacken Open up Air 2008, where they performed alongside many bands including Iron Maiden, Sonata Arctica and Avantasia.^[xiii] Children of Bodom played at Donington Download on 15 June, playing a mixture of old and new songs. On viii March 2008, Children of Bodom did their first Uk signing effect at the Zavvi music store in Oxford Street, London. They signed copies of their new single "Blooddrunk" in CD, 7 inch and 12 inch vinyls,^[14] simply 666 copies of the 12 inch vinyls accept been made.^[xv]

On 26 June 2008, Children of Bodom played their get-go show in Auckland, New Zealand with support from local scene acts Dawn of Azazel and Decrease at the Transmission Room.^[xvi] In 2008, Children of Bodom's first iii studio albums, as well every bit Tokyo Warhearts, were remastered and re-released with bonus tracks. In September and October 2008, the ring toured the U.S. supporting Blooddrunk with support from The Black Dahlia Murder and Between the Buried and Me. Testament also fabricated a special guest advent in the chief back up slot at the tour's New York City date. In November and December 2008, the ring toured in Europe supporting Slipknot and Motorcar Head. From late January to early March 2009, the ring besides co-headlined the European tour with Cannibal Corpse with Diablo opening for them. On 2 April 2009, Children of Bodom embarked on the No Fear Energy Tour headlined by Lamb of God with main back up from As I Lay Dying and themselves, and rotating opening slots with God Foreclose and Municipal Waste, merely dropped off the tour a calendar week earlier it was finished post-obit a serious injury Alexi suffered after falling from the top bunk of his tour double-decker on 26 April 2009, after the evidence in Palladium Ballroom, Dallas, Texas. In improver to the injury, on 8 May 2009, at Roseland Ballroom in New York City, Alexi and Children of Bodom were forced to quit playing after a few of their songs because of Alexi's previous injury. Laiho originally planned to go on touring despite his injury merely was forced to cancel last six dates when whatever efforts to alleviate the pain failed. All summertime festival dates went down as planned and were unaffected by Alexi's injury.^{[17] [xviii]}

In February 2009, Children of Bodom hinted at plans to release a cover album entitled Skeletons in the Closet, which was released on 23 September 2009.^[19] They also admitted to being "lazy" when it comes to practicing and talked almost plans to accept more songs on future albums.^[20] The band embarked on a tour of Southward America and Mexico in September 2009. Back up for the trek came from Amorphis. Also in September and October 2009, the band returned to N America to headline a massive calendar month-long tour. On virtually dates support on the trek came from The Black Dahlia Murder and Skeletonwitch. Austrian Death Machine and Holy Grail made a special guest advent in the master support slot at the bout's 2d Pomona, California date.^{[21] [22]} On October xviii, 2009, 4 days afterwards the band's North American bout finale in Honolulu, Hawaii they performed at Japan'southward Loudpark Festival forth with Megadeth, Judas Priest, Slayer, Anthrax, Rob Zombie and Arch Enemy. In the six days following their performance at the Loudpark Festival, they held iii shows in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China respectively. They finished their two-month September to October tour in Moscow, Russia. This concluded their year and a one-half long Blooddrunk World Tour.

Skeletons in the Closet is a embrace album released on 22 September 2009. It features covers released on versions of previous albums just likewise includes four new tracks. Covered artists include Suicidal Tendencies, Britney Spears, Alice Cooper, Fe Maiden, Slayer, Andrew WK, Billy Idol and Scorpions

Children of Bodom featured a competition to promote their new anthology in which anyone could win prizes featuring an ESP/LTD M-53 electric guitar, the band's unabridged back catalog, and Skeletons in the Closet. The competition ran from 25 August to 21 September 2009. The winners were announced 28 September 2009.

Render to form with Halo of Blood (2010–2014) [edit]

After the Blooddrunk tour ended, Children of Bodom started recording their new album. During the recording of the drum tracks there was a small tornado and the ability was cutting out. Consequently, the recording was delayed until after their tour with Black Label Order. Children of Bodom released some information to Metallic Hammer magazine virtually new anthology tracks. The three rail names they released were entitled: "Pussyfoot Miss Suicide", "Ugly", and "Was Information technology Worth It?"^{[23] [24]}

In November the band announced "The Ugly Earth Bout 2011" which would run from March–May 2011 and would characteristic dates effectually Europe. Opening Acts were Ensiferum, Machinae Supremacy and Amon Amarth (Great britain simply). On 24 November, it was announced that the championship of the album would be Relentless Reckless Forever. The album was released on 8 March 2011. A music video for "Was It Worth It?" was produced, featuring skateboarder Chris Cole as well as noted pro skaters Jamie Thomas, Garrett Colina and Tom Asta.^[25] "Was It Worth It?" was released every bit a downloadable track for the video game Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock in Feb 2011.

Halo of Blood is the band'southward eighth studio album. It was released on half dozen June in Europe, 10 June in the United Kingdom and on xi June in North America. The Commotion Festival tour aslope Rob Zombie, Mastodon and Amon Amarth was also announced on 18 March 2013.

Music journalist Neil Kelly of PopMatters said in praise of the anthology, "Death metal could very well re-enter mainstream consciousness through Halo of Blood, the about accessible Children of Bodom release yet."^[26]

In May 2014, the ring toured eastern Australia, visiting Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne with Heart of the Enemy as support, along with Orpheus Omega in Melbourne, and Emergency Gate in Brisbane and Sydney.^[27]

I Worship Anarchy, Hexed and last prove (2015–2019) [edit]

Rhythm guitarist Daniel Freyberg 2016

On 7 Apr 2015, the ring announced that they have begun working on the follow-up of Halo of Claret.^[28] On 29 May 2015, the ring appear on their Facebook page that Roope Latvala is no longer office of Children of Bodom with the new anthology to be recorded as a four-piece for the get-go time.^[29] Notwithstanding, the band later updated that Latvala'due south office in the ring will be filled in past Antti Wirman, keyboardist Janne Wirman's younger brother for live commitments until the cease of the year; he debuted with the ring in a individual live show in Helsinki. In a afterwards interview with Wirman, he stated that his brother would non bring together the band permanently.^[30] On 8 June 2015, the album title was announced as I Worship Chaos and was released through Nuclear Blast on ii Oct 2015. On 19 January 2016, the band announced the improver of Daniel Freyberg on guitar.^[31] He would make his live debut with them in Tampa, Florida on ix February.

In an interview with Noizr Zine, taken on September xiv, 2017, Children of Bodom'due south keyboardist Janne Wirman answering to the question about the band's plans to start working on a new album with "the same product team" (Mikko Karmila and Mika Jussila) afterwards '20 Years Downwardly & Dirty' tour ends, said the post-obit: "Yes, I think we are. And we're going to record information technology in our warehouse."^[32] In Nov 2017, Bassist Henkka Seppälä discussed in an interview that the band have one-half an album'southward worth of cloth written for the next album. They began to start recording the new album in March 2018. In August 2018, Seppälä stated in an interview with TotalRock Radio that the album will be released in early 2019.^[33] In Nov 2018, the band revealed that the album would exist called Hexed. It was released on 8 March 2019.

On November 1, 2019, it was announced that Children of Bodom would play their final prove with the line-up at the time on December fifteen. The gig, dubbed "A Chapter Called Children of Bodom", took place at the Helsinki Ice Hall, Republic of finland. The statement said:

"After nearly 25 years with Bodom, thousands of shows & 10 albums, Henkka [Seppälä], Janne [Wirman] and Jaska [Raatikainen] take decided to step back and change direction within their lives. Alexi [Laiho] and Daniel [Freyberg] will have farther announcements well-nigh their plans to keep creating new music in the time to come."^[34]

It was later reported that the chief reason for the departures was that Raatikainen, Seppälä and Wirman could no longer find a shared viewpoint with Laiho.^[35] Laiho and Freyberg have already constitute a new bassist and a new drummer co-ordinate to Helsingin Sanomat.^[36] According to Finnish music zine Soundi, Laiho could not use the band's proper noun without permission from his former bandmates.^[37]

Bodom After Midnight and death of Alexi Laiho (2020–2021) [edit]

Bodom Later Midnight
Origin	Helsinki, Finland
Genres	Melodic death metal
Years active	2020–2021
Labels	Napalm, Ward
By members	Alexi Laiho Daniel Freyberg Mitja Toivonen Waltteri Väyrynen

In 2020, Laiho decided to carry on with Freyberg in their new band Bodom After Midnight. Joining them were bassist Mitja Toivonen (ex-Santa Cruz), drummer Waltteri Väyrynen (Paradise Lost) and touring keyboardist Lauri Salomaa.^[2] The band made a live debut on 23 October 2022 in Seinäjoki, Finland with two more shows at Tavastia in Helsinki, Finland, where the band played an 60 minutes-long set of Children of Bodom songs.^[38]

On 4 January 2021, information technology was announced that Alexi Laiho had died in late December 2022 from health complications at the age of 41.^[39] Bodom Afterward Midnight was in the process of working on its total-length debut album, and earlier his decease, recorded three songs and shot a music video, which were appear to be released posthumously.^[xl] On 10 February, the band appear the release of an EP titled Paint the Sky with Blood, which was released on 23 April 2021. The 3-vocal EP features the final recordings by Laiho, consisting of two original songs and a Dissection cover.^[41] Guitarist Daniel Freyberg stated that at that place would be no more releases: "There was no more songs written. That was all the songs, all the riffs Alexi ever presented us. So in that location's no leftovers."^[42]

In an Apr 2022 interview with Loudwire, Freyberg stated that Bodom Afterward Midnight would not continue without Laiho: "Unfortunately, Bodom After Midnight as an agile band is pretty much going to be buried with Alexi. Nosotros don't actually feel comfy using the name Bodom without Alexi, because it'due south and so connected to him."^[43]

Their vocal "Paint the Sky With Blood" was elected by Loudwire as the eighth all-time metallic vocal of 2021.^[44]

Musical mode and influences [edit]

Frontman Alexi Laiho is "widely celebrated as one of the genre'southward most accomplished players" according to AllMusic.^[45]

Children of Bodom has been described ordinarily as melodic expiry metal^{[46] [47]} and power metal, combining the two genres together.^[48] Influences and inspirations to Children of Bodom were cited as a variety of artists such as Anthrax, Cannibal Corpse, Dimmu Borgir, Dire Straits, Entombed, Paul Gilbert, Guns N' Roses, Hypocrisy, Billy Idol, In Flames, Iron Maiden, Kreator, Yngwie Malmsteen, Metallica, Mötley Crüe, Nine Inch Nails, Obituary, Ozzy Osbourne, Pantera, Poison, the Ramones, Sepultura, the Sex Pistols, Skid Row, Slayer, Stone, Suicidal Tendencies, Twisted Sister, Steve Vai and West.A.Due south.P.^[49]

Laiho has been, according to AllMusic, "widely celebrated as one of the genre'due south near accomplished players",^[45] while the ring has an "instantly recognizable sound".^[fifty]

Band members [edit]

Final lineup

• Alexi Laiho – atomic number 82 guitar, lead vocals (1993–2019), bass (1993–1994, 1995–1996), keyboards (1993–1996, 2019), rhythm guitar (1993–1996, 2003, 2015) (died 2020)
• Jaska Raatikainen – drums (1993–2019), keyboards (1993–1996)
• Henkka Seppälä – bass, bankroll vocals (1995–2019)
• Janne Wirman – keyboards, backing vocals (1997–2019)
• Daniel Freyberg – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2016–2019)

Bodom Afterwards Midnight lineup (2020–2021)

• Alexi Laiho – lead guitar, lead vocals (died 2020)
• Daniel Freyberg – rhythm guitar, bankroll vocals
• Mitja Toivonen – bass, backing vocals
• Waltteri Väyrynen – drums
• Lauri Salomaa – keyboards, backing vocals (alive member)

Former members

• Samuli Miettinen – bass, bankroll vocals (1994–1995)
• Jani Pirisjoki – keyboards, bankroll vocals (1994–1997), rhythm guitar (1994–1995)
• Alexander Kuoppala – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1995–2003)
• Roope Latvala – rhythm guitar, bankroll vocals (2004–2015; live fellow member 2003–2004)

Former live members

• Erna Siikavirta – keyboards (1998)
• Kimberly Goss – keyboards, bankroll vocals (1998)
• Netta Skog – squeeze box (guest 2015, 2016)^{[51] [52] [53] [54] [55]}
• Antti Wirman – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2015)

Timeline

Discography [edit]

• Something Wild (1997)
• Hatebreeder (1999)
• Follow the Reaper (2000)
• Hate Crew Deathroll (2003)
• Are Yous Dead Yet? (2005)
• Blooddrunk (2008)
• Relentless Reckless Forever (2011)
• Halo of Blood (2013)
• I Worship Chaos (2015)
• Hexed (2019)

See also [edit]

• Listing of best-selling music artists in Republic of finland

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External links [edit]

• Official website

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Bodom

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