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Molli-Olli: Alexi and Alexander of Children of Bodom, welcome to Jyrki.
Alexi: The first tight question: are there murders still occurring at lake Bodom?
Alexi: Not necessarily Molli-Olli: I heard a rumour that the killer is still active?
Alexander: No no. The people spreading those rumours could stop it.
Molli-Olli: Hopefully they got the message.
The last time you were here we talked about your trips abroad, and you also released a live album from Japan.
How many albums have you sold to this date, including the new one?
Alexi: We won't know about the new album before December. But we released 20 000 copies of the live album and I think they've all been sold.
Molli-Olli: So it was a special thing, no more than 20 000 copies? Alexi: Yeah.
Molli-Olli: Ok, tell us something about the trip to Japan, you were really excited about that. What is the status of Finnish heavy metal there?
Alexander: It is good. To us the trip was very successfull in all ways, audiences liked us and Finnish metal is a really big thing in there.
Molli-Olli: Some of the Finnish record labels have realized it. Of course another target for Finnish metal is central Europe. You had a month long European tour, are things going as well in Europe as they do in Japan?
Alexi: They do, at least the latest European tour we did was very successfull, it was basically our third European tour and the longest so far, five weeks.
And now people dug us pretty much everywhere, like in Germany and Austria.
Molli-Olli: You have been signed with your current label since 1997, how much do you value the marketing resources? Because there are many other bands in Finland but you have everything going great, do you think record label has a big impact?
Alexander: Yes, it does. And with us the record label has done great work, put some time and money to marketing and such. Everything's been working great.
Molli-Olli: All the metalheads are wondering that why aren't you that big in Finland, comparing for example to Don Huonot.
You have a massive tour of 4 gigs starting, we saw the dates earlier. Why is it, that Finnish metal works better abroad?
Alexi: Well, of course there are more people for example in Germany. But with this kind of music, which some people could even call black metal, I think our sales have been good.
Because we are a real metal band and we don't even try to do something that plays on the radio every *** day. So it's been going better than we would have ever expected.
Molli-Olli: Yes and because you are a real metal band, we wanted you to play live here but you weren't interested in it, well you had some prior engagements too.
And during the last European tour we asked you to visit here but you didn't come here either. So do you value Finnish media at all or are you concentrating fully abroad?
Alexander: Of course we value it. The last time we played in Helsinki with these Swedish bands and we had to do soundcheck the same time we should have been here. So we valued that a little higher.
Alexi: And the time before our drummer had something else to do.
Molli-Olli: Ok, but promise us now in live show that you will play live here someday.
I know you are suspicious about playing live since you are so strict about your sound but we have great sounds in Jyrki. Alexi: I'm sure you have.
Molli-Olli: And you also had a metal request, what would you like to hear?
Alexi & Alexander: Let's put Ozzy Osbourne.
Molli-Olli: Ok, let's beware of tears so mascara doesn't run.