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                                 Biography
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Children Of Bodom are absolutely not your standard dose of scandinavian
black / death, this is something else, the soundtrack for the unsolved,
eerie." - Spinefarm Records. Children Of Bodom hail from Espoo, Finland
(Espoo is a city near Helsinki, Finland's capital). The band's name relates
to one of Finland's greatest murder mysteries (still unsolved), the murders
at the Lake Bodom (located in southern Finland). In the 1960s four
teenagers were camping at the lake and three of them were butchered by some
maniac with an axe. This murder case has bred many urban tales, and now,
this band. The band was originally formed with a different name
("Inearthed") in 1993, had person and style changes, made a couple of demos
and played some gigs, and were to publish their debut album through a small
belgian record company. However, Spinefarm Records got hold of the demo and
made a deal of three albums with the band. Describing or categorizing the
music of Children Of Bodom is difficult. It's a bizarre mixture of classic
80's heavy (WASP, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest) and melodic, pompous power
metal (Helloween, Stratovarius), lots of neo-classical guitar-heroism
(Randy Rhoads, Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai), some trash (Stone) and death
metal (early Sentenced) with barking, screamed vocals. Also lots of
classical music influences can be heard both in the guitars and keyboards.
Still, the band remains whole, tight and very unique which is unusual in
metal-music nowadays. Despite their young age (most of them being below
25), these musicians are very adept with their instruments (e.g. Alexi
Laiho has already achieved some sort of guitar-hero status) and still
better, manage to compose great songs unlike many so-called super-bands.
The songs are filled with great melodies, catchy riffing and hooks (ready
your air-guitar), while the hoarse vocals and fast drumming bring heaviness
to the songs. The songs are mostly written by Alexi Laiho, who both sings
and plays guitar. Many guitar-heroes tend to get their kicks just by
wanking the fretboard with fast scales and runs stolen from classical
composers and creating songs around solos (one swedish guy comes to
mind...) but in this band, the fast technic playing really suits in the
songs. Printed lyrics can be found only for few songs, and because of the
singing style, it's difficult to make out the vocals. However, I guess
lyrically the songs deal with the dark sides of life ("yleisesta
vitutuksesta", as we finns quite often see it). The release of "Something
Wild" in late 1997 and warming up for Dimmu Borgir's gig in Helsinki really
got the big rock rolling. Finnish metal underground and the music press
praised the band. Amusing though, one music magazine described the band's
above-mentioned gig and music as "black metal, capable of development". A
contract with Nuclear Blast brought the album abroad and the band went on
tour with other Nuclear Blast bands, and began to get attention beyond
Finland. Before their second full-length, the band released two singles,
"Children Of Bodom" and "Downfall", and participated on a Sepultura tribute
album, "Sepultural Feast", by playing "Mass Hypnosis". The second album,
"Hatebreeder", was released in the beginning of 1999. Alexi Laiho also
plays every now and then in Impaled Nazarene (finnish nuclear metal band)
and is in a multinational band called Sinergy, whose album "Beware The
Heavens" got released in june 1999. Sinergy is a band of Alexi Laiho,
Kimberly Goss, Ronny Milianowicz, Sharlee D'Angelo and Jesper Stroblad.
Worth checking out! While touring in Japan in summer 1999, some recordings
were made at Tokyo's Club Citta. This resulted as "Tokyo Warhearts" which
was released in october 1999.

                                Alexi Laiho
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     Nickname: Wildchild
     Full Name: Alexi Laiho
     Date Of Birth: April 1979
     From: Espoo, Finland
     Instrument: Vocals, guitars
     Other bands: Sinergy, Impaled Nazarene
     Also played in: Inearthed (now Children Of Bodom), Thy Serpent
     Influences: Stone, Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Steve Vai, Ozzy Osbourne
     (esp. Randy Rhoads and Jake E. Lee), past Sentenced's 'Amok' and
     'South From Here', Manowar, W.A.S.P., Judas Priest and classical
     music like Bach, Mozart ad Beethoven.

                             Alexander Kuoppala
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     Nickname: Ale
     Full Name: Alexander Kuoppala
     Date Of Birth: 1974
     From: Espoo, Finland
     Instrument: Guitar
     Also played in: Inearthed (now Children Of Bodom)
     Influences: Manowar, Stratovarius, ... and lots more)
     More: Before getting famous he worked as a forklift truck driver

                                Janne Wirman
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     Nickname: Johansson
     Full Name: Janne Viljami Wirman
     Date Of Birth: 1979
     From: Espoo, Finland
     Instrument: Keyboards
     Influences: 80's Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Stratovarius (esp. Jens
     Johansson (Janne's nickname)
     More: Has his own solo project caled "Warmen"

                              Henkka T. Smith
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     Full Name: Henkka T. SeppÆlÆ
     Date Of Birth: unknown
     From: Espoo, Finland
     Instrument: 5-string bass
     Also played in: Inearthed (now Children Of Bodom)
     Influences: Helloween, Sentenced, Death, In Flames
     More: Henkka T. Blacksmith's real lastname is SeppÆlÆ (seppÆ =
     smith)

                             Jaska Raatikainen
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     Full Name: Jaska Raatikainen
     Date Of Birth: 1979
     From: Espoo, Finland
     Instrument: Drums
     Also played in: Inearthed (now Children Of Bodom)
     Influences: Death, Cynic
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