The filming of the music video revealed how bad guitarist Alexi Laiho was in bad shape.
Alexi Laiho was selected as the best guitarist in the world in various votes. Jenni Gästgivar
Children of Bodom’s guitarist Alexi Laiho died in December 2020. He had had a serious substance abuse problem for years.
In the new book Heavy Finland – The story of Finnish metal telling how other members of the band realized at the latest Blooddrunk-In the shooting of a music video in Germany, Laiho’s poor well -being. Blooddrunk was published in 2008.
– Alexi was in a terrible condition in those descriptions. Remember other band guys asking me to talk to Alex because the idea was that Allu would listen to me anyway. Instead, Allu just smelled of fucking to me, after which I felt like I couldn’t do this anymore. At that point Alexi had already had alcoholismChildren of Bodom’s then keyboard player Janne Wirman says in the book.
At that time the drum played at the time Jaska Raatikainen Also remember the same descriptions.
– At the scene, there was a bucket behind the structure, where Alexi went to vomit blood between the samples. He then poured more vodka down the throat after the previous ones had come up. Looking at such a behavior was really affected by all of us. It was feeling that he would like to help but the other would not take help but smell on topRaatikainen says in the book.
However, the band continued to gig, and Laiho’s appreciation as a guitarist rose worldwide. He was selected as the best guitarist in the world by several votes.
Both Raatikainen and Wirman left the band in 2019.
Alexi Laiho died at the age of 41 in 2020.
Quotes are excerpts from the book Heavy Finland – the story of Finnish metal (written by Ari Elo, Jukka Kittilä, Juuso Määttänen, Johnny Kniga). The book was published on 29 May.