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Roope Juhani Latvala (born 25 June 1970) is a Finnish guitarist, best known as the former guitarist for the bands Children of Bodom and Sinergy. He was also one of the founding members of Stone, which was one of the first notable bands in the history of Finnish heavy metal. ==Biography== Roope was born in Helsinki. At the age of 15, he founded the band Stone together with Janne Joutsenniemi. The band's style was initially focused on a more traditional heavy metal, but they soon shifted to a faster and more aggressive sound, which was the key for them to receive mass recognition. In the year of 1991, the band was dissolved, with a discography of four studio albums, one live album and one compilation album. He is the main influence of many Finnish guitarists, especially Alexi Laiho (from Children of Bodom). After the breakup of Stone, he released an instrumental work with his brother, entitled ''Latvala bros''. He then played with Dementia for around a year. In 1995 he joined Waltari after guitarist Sami Yli-Sirniö left the band. They played together for 6 years before Roope decided to quit the band. He joined Sinergy after vocalist Kimberly Goss moved from Sweden to Finland and had to reassemble the band; he assumed the role that previously belonged to Jesper Strömblad (from In Flames). During the whole of his career, Roope had many side projects and played as a guest musician in many bands, the most notable of the being: Warmen, Nomicon, Pornonorsu, Jailbreakers, Gloomy Grim, Amon Amarth, Children of Bodom, and Soulgrind. At times he also composed movie soundtracks. When Alexander Kuoppala left Children of Bodom in 2003 in the middle of their world tour, the members of the band were forced to search for a new guitarist in the time span of one month, when their next show would happen. The new guitarist needed to be able to learn about twenty songs to be played live. Alexi Laiho allegedly tried to recruit Kai R. (Richard) Nergård (Kai), of the Norwegian Heavy metal band ''Griffin'', but Kai declined. With little time left, Roope contacted Alexi and asked him if Children of Bodom needed any help on the tour. Alexi agreed that he would be a session player because he's the only guitarist he deemed skilled enough to manage the feat of learning the songs with enough accuracy to replace Alexander, who had been playing with the band for 10 years. Roope played the Moscow concert on 16 August successfully. Despite the initial announcement that he would be a session player only, he remained with the band and recorded the ''Trashed, Lost & Strungout'' EP. He continued playing with the band and also recorded the hit LP "Are You Dead Yet?". Roope played two guitar solos on the Children of Bodom album, "Are You Dead Yet?", despite the widely accepted notion that Alexi plays all solos on Bodom albums. When he joined Children of Bodom, Roope made a deal with ESP Guitars, which already endorsed Alexi and Henkka Seppälä. Before that he used Jackson Guitars almost exclusively (Roope could be seen wearing the infamous Jackson T-shirt that reads ''Get The Best, Fuck The Rest''), and it is not unusual for him to use his old Jacksons live. There were rumours which said that he would switch sides with Jesper Strömblad of the melodic death metal Band In Flames, but he denied it saying that he had never heard anything about it, and added "I said that I like Dark Tranquillity and in Flames. But somebody misunderstood me and wrote silly things in a metal magazine. So we are together with my lovely friend Alexi Laiho and the whole crew." As of late May 2015, Roope Latvala no longer is a member of Children of Bodom with the band recording an upcoming album as four piece. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roope Latvala」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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