Was there a sudden change musically when the band changed the name from Inearthed to Children of Bodom?
AK: Yeah, for sure. The first demo tapes we did were more like just pure death metal style. We haven’t made any radical changes to our music. It just developed towards what it is today. When we make music we just want to make good music. We don’t want to think about how the fans would react. We just make the music and let them decide. MU: Have any of the band members attended music school? AK: Alexi, who makes all the music – he studied to play different styles of music, as myself. We played jazz and blues and whatever. It is important to listen to and play different kinds of music. It gives you an impression of how to use your instrument so you can get everything out of it. So it is very important to study and listen to different kinds of music. We also listen to a lot of classical music and stuff like that. Our keyboard player has been studying in music schools also. MU: You can definitely tell from the playing. You guys play some intense and technical music yet it appears that you g
