For those who’re a Kids of Bodom fan, you’re probably already counting all the way down to this Friday when the band launch their last document of their profession, A Chapter Known as Kids of Bodom (Ultimate Present in Helsinki Ice Corridor 2019).
After all, this launch is bittersweet. This last live performance was the band’s farewell to their followers, after which beloved vocalist and guitarist Alexi Laiho handed away in December 2020, making this the band’s last recording with the long-lasting Laiho as nicely.
We spoke with bassist Henkka Seppälä in regards to the last live performance and saying goodbye for the final time.
There’s a whole lot of anticipation amongst followers for this document to come back out. What emotions are y’all having; are you excited, or is it a little bit bit bittersweet and unhappy?
It’s loopy as a result of it’s already been 4 years for the reason that last present. We knew after that final present that we might have that recorded, however we clearly didn’t understand how it might really feel to really pay attention and watch again. It was quiet heavy, really, for everyone. The tip of the band in a psychological, emotional manner. After which, after all, Alexi passing away fairly quickly after that made it quiet heavy for everyone. There have been many issues we have been coping with.
I don’t bear in mind after we really began speaking about (releasing the document). It was perhaps one or two years in the past. After which when Alexi’s household was actually into the concept, we obtained Spinefarm (the label) into this concept. So we realized perhaps it was one thing we must always do. And naturally, we knew that technically talking, the present was fairly good. It was a little bit bit emotional, and the temper was a little bit bit bizarre. It wasn’t essentially the most, you understand, celebration sort of present like a whole lot of those we performed earlier, however we knew it was going to be a top quality present.
And naturally, the emotional facet is one thing that’s there; I’m positive all people who listens to it, they’ll sense it, they usually can really feel it, indirectly at the least. So I’m actually excited that it’s lastly taking place now 4 years after the present.
I believe one other side is that the present was organized with such brief discover, so it was mainly potential for folks to attend the present, even when they’d had the cash. We all know we’ve got followers worldwide, so for many individuals, it’s unattainable to do the journey. I believe in that manner, we really feel it’s one thing we wish to have for individuals who couldn’t make it to the final present, or see us on the final tour, which was 2019, as a result of we have been but to really play the entire European continent and Asia. So we felt lots of people have been lacking out on this.
So you are feeling this can be a sturdy observe to sort of ship issues off on, and also you’re pleased with this being the final illustration of what the band places out.
Yeah, I imply, we knew after we obtained on that stage that it was the final time we have been going to play collectively. So it was a really particular second, and I used to be virtually shedding tears the complete time. So I’m comfortable that this present is on the market now, and there’s a bodily model of it, so it’s not solely a imprecise reminiscence that may fade someday. Now we’ve got a bodily factor to maintain the reminiscence alive. So it’s very, very particular.
For the quilt artwork, we selected crimson and labored with our unique cowl artist as a result of that’s sort of full circle to how the entire thing started. We additionally requested followers worldwide to ship us any photograph reminiscences of the band or the followers themselves, and we obtained tons of of pictures we’ve got included in a particular booklet for the vinyl or CD model, like a collage of reminiscences. We had folks ship them in over e-mail.
That’s actually cool. Is there the rest you included to commemorate the band and the way particular this launch is?
That is additionally a web page devoted to Alexi. We obtained very good pictures of him from his household of his childhood. Like I stated earlier, this was completed in shut cooperation along with his household and his property. We’ve been coping with his sister, and she or he despatched us cool childhood pictures, so we did this memorial to him as nicely.
Wow, it’s nice that you simply included that. Wanting again over time, I really feel such as you all have been so influential for melodic loss of life metallic, black metallic, hardcore, all these totally different genres, and blurring a few of these style strains that have been so strict earlier than. At the least as a metalhead in my 30s who listened to you in my teenagers, that’s the way it appears to me. So what do you are feeling now wanting again is the most important legacy you’ve left behind and the factor that you simply’re most comfortable about?
Properly, it’s nonetheless very cool to see how persons are speaking in regards to the band and the way folks really feel in regards to the significance of the band. It’s been nice listening to from the followers with these pictures, as a result of since we don’t have reveals anymore, we don’t essentially nonetheless meet the followers. I like listening to the tales about how Bodom has helped folks by way of tough occasions of their lives, or issues like that, and I believe each private story is simply as essential as the total legacy.
However after all, when you concentrate on it in a extra normal manner, as a End musician coming from a small nation, within the very far nook of Europe, we’re very proud that Kids of Bodom is among the largest issues to ever come from Finland in music, particularly bizarre music. And I believe one other cool factor is that Kids of Bodom’s music isn’t thought-about so bizarre anymore—Possibly that’s the most important legacy.
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