CHILDREN OF BODOM To Peform At Finland's TUSKA And PROVINSSI Festivals In 2027
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Finnish metallers CHILDREN OF BODOM will co-headline the 2027 edition the Tuska festival, set to take place July 2-4, 2027 in Suvilahti, Helsinki, Finland. They will also perform at Provinssi, which will be held July 1-3, 2027 in Seinajoki, Finland.
Tuska 2027 limited early crow three-day tickets will go on sale on Monday, June 29 at 9:00 and will be available until Wednesday, July 1 at 23:59, or while supplies last.
The limited early crow ticket batch is available exclusively to Tuska newsletter subscribers. If you are not yet subscribed, join now at tuska.fi/limited-early-crow to receive a code via email on Monday morning, granting access to the lowest possible price for a Tuska 2027 three-day ticket: €229.00. The age limit for the festival is 18+.
This past February, members of CHILDREN OF BODOM played two shows celebrating the group's music at the Tavastia club in Helsinki. The concerts, dubbed "Children Of Bodom – A Celebration Of Music", featured 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.
In an April 2026 interview with Ed Hack of This Day In Metal, Wirman was asked why now was the right time for the CHILDREN OF BODOM to regroup and honor Laiho in this way. He responded: "We've gotten some requests and we've said 'no' to everything. But then this one guy, who is now our booking agent, from Austria, Dominik, he contacted us and he was convincing enough. Like, 'Guys, I have so many requests for BODOM shows.' And we replied to him politely that we don't have a band. We just have three guys and a legacy. And he goes, like, 'Can I come to Helsinki and meet you?' We were, like, 'Okay, fine.' And this guy flies to Helsinki and we meet him for dinner. He turns out to be a super-nice guy, someone we could work with."
He continued: "Back in the day, BODOM, it was such a tight family. Everyone needed to kind of fit in — like a manager, booking agent, we always kind of needed to know these guys, that they really fit to the picture. So this guy kind of was very convincing. And this was a couple of years ago. And then we started thinking, like, 'Okay, well, if we ever gonna play any shows, how are we gonna approach it? And then we hired our old manager Steve [Davis] back, 'cause Steve is a mastermind and a genius in his own really fucked up way. And he said that, 'Guys, how we are gonna do this is that we're gonna celebrate the music, 'cause that's what we have — we have the music.' And then that's how we started unraveling. And, yeah, that's where we are right now."
Regarding Elbanna's performance at the two shows CHILDREN OF BODOM played at the Tavastia, Wirman said: "Dude, he was on fire. And he was so well practiced already when we had our first like band practice. Three months prior, four months prior to the shows, when we started practicing, he already knew everything, and I was just starting to remember, like, 'How the fuck was this again?' So he was so well prepared, so well practiced. He's a young and enthusiastic little kid, and I love him. And he's been practicing a lot. I think it takes a lot of practice for someone to be able to pull off everything that Alexi put on those albums. I think his performance was flawless. All the guitar solos, all the guitar leads were just perfect.
"Of course, we all know how fucking talented Alexi was, but that was something we were always in awe of, how he could play the most complex riff and then sing at the same time or shout or whatever," Janne continued. "And I know there were some parts that were really difficult for Samy, but he pulled it off. I don't even know, and I cannot even understand how much he had to have been practicing."
The official CHILDREN OF BODOM book was published in August 2025 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.
(Source: www.blabbermouth.net)
