Metal Hammer UK

THE YEAR THAT… METAL MOURNED ALEXI LAIHO

s the year began, we received the sad news that we had lost Alexi Laiho, one of this century’s most gifted shredders, the life and soul of the party, and by all accounts a gentle and kind man. He had formed the band Inearthed in 1993 with school friend

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