https://vo.rs/tags/alexi-laiho/Recent content in Alexi Laiho on vo.rsHugoenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Wed, 29 Dec 2021 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/children-of-bodom/Wed, 29 Dec 2021 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/children-of-bodom/<p>A year ago today, on 29 December 2020, Alexi Laiho died at his home in Helsinki. He was 41. His management confirmed weeks later that the cause was degeneration of the liver and pancreas connected to long-term alcohol use. For a generation of guitar players he was the closest thing extreme metal had to a Malmsteen with a blast beat, and his band — Children of Bodom — had already played their last show a year before that, so the news landed as a double loss: first the group, then the man who was its whole reason to exist.</p>