Laiho died on 29 December 2020 after long-term health complications, leaving behind a few songs recorded with Bodom After Midnight to be published posthumously. In March 2020, Laiho and Freyberg officially announced their new band, Bodom After Midnight, named after the second track from the album Follow the Reaper. Due to legal reasons, Laiho would need permission from his former band mates to continue using the Children of Bodom name. On 15 December 2019, Children of Bodom played their last show at the Icehall in Helsinki, dubbed "A Chapter Called Children of Bodom" in November it was announced that after this show, all members of the band except Laiho and guitarist Daniel Freyberg had quit. On 3 July 2012, Children of Bodom announced on their Facebook page that they had to cancel two European shows because Laiho had been taken to the hospital because of severe stomach pain. Laiho appears on Canadian thrash metal outfit Annihilator's 2007 album, Metal, as a guest, performing a guitar solo on the song "Downright Dominate". There, Laiho also received the Dimebag Award for " Best Shredder" and performed a track off of Bodom's 2008's album, Blooddrunk.
The band's discography includes two EP's, and two full-length albums.Ĭhildren of Bodom played at the 2008 Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards. The band was created merely for the entertainment of the musicians, and takes a carefree approach to their music. In 2004, Laiho founded a side-project called Kylähullut, which was assembled together with Tonmi Lillman (ex-Sinergy) and Vesa Jokinen 69er (from Klamydia). In 1993, Laiho formed Children of Bodom together with drummer Jaska Raatikainen, under the name of IneartheD. His first guitar was a " Tokai Stratocaster". Yeah, sure, sure…we’ve been around six years more than they have! That was very funny of them to say.Laiho started playing violin at the age of seven and guitar at the age of 11. I’ve even heard journalists even say that you’ve copied Evanescence and I was like “what the hell are you guys talking about?”… People tend to compare our music to Evanescence and it’s very funny because there are not that many elements there that we have in common. He was pissed off by the fact that it’s a totally different style (that of Evanescence) and because they had a woman singing and because it had a little bit of metal inside it…but it’s a totally different style and kind of music. I can also mention that when Tuomas heard Evanescence's music for the first time, he was completely pissed off. Hey if people think that this is similar, so let them think. We just realized that afterwards, you know. It was not meant to be like that, it did not have anything to do with Evanescence's cover. They even compared the cover artwork of "Once" to that of an Evanescence single… Some of the people who probably discovered Nightwish a couple of months ago, compare you a lot to Evanescence, which has pissed off a lot of your fans. This is what Tarja had to say about Evanescence: They released their new album, Dark Passion Play, on Octoin North America. In May 2007 they band named Anette Olzon as their new singer. Their 2005 release was End of An Era, a DVD of their final performance with Turunen, fired from the band in October 2005. This band is often mentioned, among a number of others, as sharing a similar sound with Evanescence. Ver o artigoīand formed by Tuomas Holopainen, Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen and Tarja Turunen in 1996.