Originally Posted by Crushed Hope
Bodom are not Melodic Death Metal. Honestly if you listened to Melodic Death Metal you would find NO similarites beyond vocals ... and even that is a short coming because Alexi's vocals are more suited for black metal. They are Power Metal (w/ Harsh Vocals.)
They were not named after a massacre but after a triple murder that happened between to group of four friends who went camping at Lake Bodom, 3 were killed, 1 of which was BRUTALLY SLAUGHTERED, and the fourth friend was scared to insanity.
However recent case developements CLAIM that it was the 4th friend who had killed the other three because 2 of the friends were going out and he liked one of them, and it was the whole "If I can't have her no one can" thing ...
He is innocent though.
Anyways, Hatebreeder and Follow the Reaper are good, there are still way better bands of the type out there (Like Kalmah and Norther.)