In 1993 native of the Finnish city of Espoo, Finland, musician Alexi Laiho and its child-hood friendJaska Raatikainen have hammered together the group which name after short reflections have unanimously chosen from all other offered variants: «Children of Bodom» (at first was «Inearthed»). The name has appeared because of events on lake in Baud where in 1960 year teenagers have been brutally killed - event which for long decades friends have excited the Finnish public ... Quickly enough have generated a command. Espoo - a city, to the Russian measures, small (nearby 230 000 persons) and many of musicians knew each other since the childhood.

It is necessary to dwell upon not ordinary person of the founder and the leader of group. The multiinstrumentalist, the singer, the composer and poet Aleksi «Wildchild» Laiho was born on April, 8th, 1979 in Espoo and has started to practise music since 5th years. The violin was the first tool. And soon Aleksi has sat down on music which was listened by the his sister, and such groups, as W.A.S.P., Poison, Stone, and in 11 years has said goodbye to the violin, having replaced it with a guitar.

«Wildchild» Aleksi has received the nickname on song W.A.S.P with the same name. Definitively its decision was affected by concert record of a song of Steve Vai For The Love Of God from Passion And Warfare. It has started to take skill lessons in Finnish Pop and Jazz Conservatory where also has mastered the piano (the same conservatory on a piano class the keyboard player of group Janne «Warman» Wirman which too played a jazz, a blues has ended also. Hide review