CHILDREN OF BODOM Members Announce 'A Celebration Of Music' Concert In Helsinki
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Members of legendary Finnish metal band CHILDREN OF BODOM will celebrate the group's music on February 26, 2026 at the Tavastia club in Helsinki. Tickets for the evening, dubbed "A Celebration Of Music", will go on sale on October 29, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. at Tiketti.fi.
The concert will feature original CHILDREN OF BODOM members, bassist Henkka Seppälä, keyboardist Janne Wirman, drummer Jaska Raatikainen and early guitarist Alexander Kuoppala, along with longtime friend Samy Elbanna, known from the band LOST SOCIETY, paying tribute to CHILDREN OF BODOM guitarist/vocalist and main songwriter Alexi Laiho, who passed away on December 29, 2020 in his home in Helsinki, Finland. He died of alcohol-induced degeneration of the liver and pancreas connective tissue. Furthermore, Laiho had a cocktail of painkillers, opioids and insomnia medication in his system. He had suffered from long-term health issues leading up to his death.
CHILDREN OF BODOM commented: "We want to celebrate the life's work of our band and at the same time the musical legacy of our friend and bandmate Alexi.
"The gig will be played at the Tavastia club, which is important to CHILDREN OF BODOM, and at the same time, we will fulfill the long-standing wish of our fans."
The official CHILDREN OF BODOM book was published in August via the London, U.K.-based publisher Rocket 88. The book tells the story of the Finnish melodic death metal pioneers as an oral history in which Seppälä, Wirman, Raatikainen and Kuoppala plus other former members, their friends and colleagues recall the 30-plus-year history of their career.
For the first time, members of the band tell the story of CHILDREN OF BODOM in their own words. Henkka, Janne and Jaska recall the founding of the band with Laiho and the struggles, adventures and triumphs they experienced in the more than 30 years that followed. Drawing on personal memories and new interviews with the band conducted by Finnish best-selling author and longtime friend of the band Timo Isoaho, the official CHILDREN OF BODOM book tells the whole story, warts and all, of the groundbreaking melodic death metal band.
Henkka, Janne, Jaska and Alexander said in a statement: "Since we stopped making music and suffered the tragic loss of our brother Alexi, we've been remembering so many great times that we had together, and you can now read about those times in this book. It tells the full history of CHILDREN OF BODOM in our own words."
(Source: www.blabbermouth.net)
