Children of Bodom guitarist Alexi Laiho was walking around with an injury for almost ten years and didn't even know about it. In a new interview with Guitar World, Laiho reveals he was only recently diagnosed with a broken collar bone, and after having surgery he's still not quite at the level of player he was before the procedure.
When asked what the "most technically demanding" guitar solo he ever played was, Laiho was hard-pressed to pick one specific song. "Probably a lot of the older stuff where some of the solos I was writing were insanely fast arpeggios and picking," said Laiho.
It was at that point he revealed his recent diagnosis: "Everything seems hard right now as I had a massive shoulder operation about two years ago. Apparently, my collar bone had been broken for about 10 years. I’ve had to relearn how to play."
"It’s not a nerve problem, but some of my fingers are not up to speed on a lot of things. It’s a slow process; I’m still not quite back to where I was before the operation."
Laiho seemed to recover well enough to release a new Bodom album, Hexed, which surfaced earlier this year. Read our review here.
