Children of Bodom was a Finnish heavy metal band from Espoo. Formed in 1993 as Inearthed, the final line-up of the group upon their split in 2019 consisted of Alexi Laiho, Jaska Raatikainen, Henkka Seppälä, Janne Wirman, and Daniel Freyberg. The group has released ten studio albums, two live albums, and two EPs, two compilation albums and one DVD. The band has sold more than 1.5 million copies of their albums, making them one of the best-selling bands in Finland.
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Children of Bodom was a Finnish heavy metal band from Espoo. Formed in 1993 as Inearthed, the final line-up of the group upon their split in 2019 consisted of Alexi Laiho, Jaska Raatikainen, Henkka Seppälä, Janne Wirman, and Daniel Freyberg. The band’s third studio album, Follow the Reaper, was their first album to receive a gold certification in Finland, and subsequent studio albums acquired the same status. Their next four albums debuted at number one on the Finnish album charts, and have also seen chart positions on the United States Billboard 200. They are one of Finland’s best selling artists of all time with more than 250,000 records sold there alone. In 2019, the band held their last concert in Helsinki named A Chapter Called: Children Of Bodom, before disbanding the band. Lai Ho died in late December 2020; his death puts an end to the possibility of the band ever reuniting with all original members. The surviving members carried on as Bodom After Midnight in 2020. Their debut, Something Wild, recorded in 1997, was supposed to be released by a small Belgian label, Shiver Records, but second copy of the album was acquired through a copy of Tenet Records’ Tenet album. Their third album, Something wild, was released in 1997. It was the first time keyboards were incorporated into the band’s songs for theFirst time. In this demo, both LaiHo and Raatkainen played the keyboards separately and subsequently mixed the recorded track with the other instruments.
Their first album was the self-funded, independent, self-produced Something Wild. The album was released by Tenet, but the band recorded their first successfully recorded album in 1997 with the help of producer Anssi Kippo at Astia-studios. Their fourth and final album was Something Wild,. It was recorded in 1998 with the assistance of a friend of the producer, and it was released on Tenet’s own label, Tenet Recordings. It is the first Finnish album to be certified as a gold record by the Recording Industry Association of Finland (RIAA). The band has sold more than 1.5 million copies of their albums, making them one of the best-selling bands in Finland. They have also sold over 1.2 million copies in the U.S. and over 1 million copies elsewhere in the world. Their last album was a self- funded, independent album recorded in 1999 with the support of a local record label, and was the only one to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200 charts. The group has released ten studio albums, two live albums, and two EPs, two compilation albums and one DVD. The last album of their career was a live album called A Chapter called: Children of Bodum, which was recorded at the end of 1998 in Helsinki, Finland. The final album of this series of concerts was titled “The Last Chapter” and was released at the beginning of 1999.
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