The Next Chapter: Bodom After Midnight
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Podcast now available with English subs:
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Yle's six-part podcast series 'The Worldâs Best Alexi Laiho' tells the story of a Finnish guitar hero
''Alexi Laiho reignited interest in guitar playing'', says Kerry King (Slayer) about the Children of Bodom leader. A podcast on Laiho, with English subtitles, can be found in the of this article.
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I started listening to it just now. I started at episode five, for obvious reasons.
In this episode the band, Petri Silas and one of their former managers speak.
Everything that has been told in this episode has already been told so far, but the former manager strongly suspects 'outside foreign influences' to have contributed to their break up.
The band mates say that since 2016, Alexi became everything he always said he didn't want to be. His personality and view on life did a complete 180. When he was diagnosed with the diabetes he made the band believe it was type 1, so hereditary, just bad luck (type 1 is genetic, type 2 from obesity/overeating). However, there are more, lesser known types of diabetes. He had a type solely caused by damage to the pancreas from alcohol consumption (the pancreas is what makes insulin).
He seemed to have money troubles at the end, or at least he needed more money. Jaska said he had 'money troubles for some strange reason' which is weird since Alexi was worth millions (personal and public knowledge in Finland too). He had suspicious, or delusions, that the bandmates held money from him. They bought him out with a lump sum in 2019. Jaska: "... somehow he had financial expenses in Australia and other expenses in his life. " "He was never good at handling money. He flew first class to Australia. that rings true for me. he was very very very generous (looking at you Gucci bag). but it was never a problem, he made a shit ton of money bc he was also signed with ESP, EMP , the guitar strings and some other things/endorsements I can't think about now.
In this episode the band, Petri Silas and one of their former managers speak.
Everything that has been told in this episode has already been told so far, but the former manager strongly suspects 'outside foreign influences' to have contributed to their break up.
The band mates say that since 2016, Alexi became everything he always said he didn't want to be. His personality and view on life did a complete 180. When he was diagnosed with the diabetes he made the band believe it was type 1, so hereditary, just bad luck (type 1 is genetic, type 2 from obesity/overeating). However, there are more, lesser known types of diabetes. He had a type solely caused by damage to the pancreas from alcohol consumption (the pancreas is what makes insulin).
He seemed to have money troubles at the end, or at least he needed more money. Jaska said he had 'money troubles for some strange reason' which is weird since Alexi was worth millions (personal and public knowledge in Finland too). He had suspicious, or delusions, that the bandmates held money from him. They bought him out with a lump sum in 2019. Jaska: "... somehow he had financial expenses in Australia and other expenses in his life. " "He was never good at handling money. He flew first class to Australia. that rings true for me. he was very very very generous (looking at you Gucci bag). but it was never a problem, he made a shit ton of money bc he was also signed with ESP, EMP , the guitar strings and some other things/endorsements I can't think about now.
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