Children Of Bodom\u2018s surviving members reunited onstage today, February 26th, for a musical tribute to their late frontman\/guitarist Alexi Laiho and the legacy of the music they made together. Laiho passed in 2020, with the band having gone dormant since. Tonight\u2019s concert took place at The Tavastia Club in Helsinki, FIN and saw Children Of Bodom guitarist\/vocalist Alexander Kuoppala, bassist Henkka Sepp\u00e4l\u00e4, keyboardist Janne Wirman and drummer Jaska Raatikainen all back onstage. Lost Society vocalist\/guitarist Samy Elbanna took on the duties previously held by Laiho.<\/p>\n
Initial fan-filmed footage from that show has gone up online below. A second tribute show will be staged at the aforementioned venue tomorrow, February 27th.<\/p>\n
The setlist ran as follows:<\/p>\n
\u201cLiving Dead Beat\u201c
\u201cSixpounder\u201c
\u201cBodom Beach Terror\u201c
\u201cSilent Night, Bodom Night\u201c
\u201cDeadnight Warrior\u201c
\u201cTowards Dead End\u201c
\u201cEverytime I Die\u201c
\u201cBodom After Midnight\u201c
\u201cLake Bodom\u201c
\u201cBed Of Razors
\u201cNeedled 24\/7\u201d
\u201cAngels Don\u2019t Kill\u201d
\u201cBlooddrunk\u201d
\u201cWarheart\u201d
\u201cFollow The Reaper\u201d
\u201cDownfall\u201d<\/p>\n
Encore:<\/p>\n
\u201cAre You Dead Yet?\u201c
\u201cHate Me!\u201c
\u201cHate Crew Deathroll\u201c<\/p>\n
Encore 2:<\/p>\n
\u201cIn Your Face\u201c<\/p>\n
Speaking last October of the decision to play these shows, the band offered:<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to celebrate the life work of our band and at the same time the musical legacy of our friend and bandmate Alex. The gig will be played for Children Of Bodom at an important Tavastia-club \u2013 and at the same time they will answer the fans\u2019 long-standing wish.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Children Of Bodom\u2018s surviving members reunited onstage today, February 26th, for a musical tribute to their late frontman\/guitarist…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[88503,93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-319558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-children-of-bodom","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}