History Music / ChildrenOfBodom

* LeadBassist: Henkka Seppälä was primarily Type C, as the FaceOfTheBand alongside Alexi Laiho.

* {{Bishonen}}: Alexi, Janne and Henkka.

* FiveManBand: The final lineup
** TheLeader: Alexi
** TheLancer: Henkka
** TheSmartGuy: Janne
** TheBigGuy: Jaska
** [[SixthRanger Fifth Ranger]]: Daniel

* NoPronunciationGuide: The name is a shibboleth. An Espoo native would pronounce it "boo-dum", while everyone else will pronounce it "bow-dom" or "boddom".

* OlderThanTheyLook: Alexi is in his late 30's, but could pass for his mid-early 20's.

In late 2019, Janne Wirman, Henri Seppälä, and Jaska Raatikainen all announced their departure after 25 years of uninterrupted membership. Their final show with the band took place on December 15, 2019. Alexi Laiho and Daniel Freyberg formed a new band called Bodom After Midnight along with Waltteri Väyrynen (drums, also in Music/ParadiseLost) and Mitja Toivonen (bass, ex-Santa Cruz). Unfortunately, the new band ended up recording only three songs before Laiho's untimely death due to alcoholism-induced liver and pancreas failure in late 2020.

As of late 2019, Janne Wirman, Henri Seppala, and Jaska Raatikainen have all announced their departure after 25 years of uninterrupted membership. Their final show with the band will take place on December 15, 2019. However, because Raatikainen, Seppälä and Wirman have filled an application with the National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland in June 2019, frontman Alexi Laiho is not legally allowed to perform under the Children of Bodom name without them. In 2020, he and Daniel Freyberg formed a new band called Bodom After Midnight along with Waltteri Väyrynen (drums, also in Music/ParadiseLost) and Mitja Toivonen (bass, ex-Santa Cruz). Unfortunately the new band ended up recording only three songs before Laiho's untimely death due to health-complications caused by his alcoholism in late 2020.

The band is also known for its rather vague genre, which has caused much heated debate, but could best be described as a mix of death metal, elements of black metal in their early/later work, some groove metal elements, thrash metal in later works and (even though many will deny it) a bit of power metal.

* MelodicDeathMetal: Probably the easiest label for them, and they most definitely served as an UrExample and TropeCodifier for the heavily keyboard-laden, power metal-flavored side of the genre as played by Ensiferum (who actually predated them but had nothing but a demo out by the time ''Something Wild'' dropped), Norther, Kalmah, Wintersun, and similar bands.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Their style can be summed up as "Neo-Classical [[ProgressiveMetal Progressive]] [[BlackMetal Blackened]] [[MelodicDeathMetal Melodic Death]][=/=][[ThrashMetal Thrash]] PowerMetal"... or something. Generally it's easiest to refer to them as "extreme power metal" (Note: Not to confuse them with Music/DragonForce, who call themselves this, but have more SpeedMetal than Extreme Metal in their sound), which is what people do. There's even some melodic black metal in their sound, though their later work mostly excised this.

* {{Mohs Scale of Rock And Metal Hardness}}: Generally 8, with a few songs that get up to 9. This is quite high for a Power Metal band, and yet a bit low for a Death Metal band.

Final lineup:
* Alexi Laiho - lead guitar, lead vocals
* Jaska Raatikainen – drums
* Henri "Henkka T. Blacksmith" Seppälä – bass, backing vocals
* Janne Wirman – keyboards, backing vocals
* Daniel Freyberg - rhythm guitar, backing vocals

Discography:

** "The Nail", the penultimate track from the debut album, opens with audio samples from ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'' and ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'' on top of each other.

* IndecipherableLyrics: The band does not publish the lyrics to half their songs, and Alexi is famous for singing whatever he feels like live, in addition to having a thick accent, generally poor enunciation, and occasional slurring if he's hammered. The result: a fandom constantly trying [[TheUnintelligible to figure out]] [[{{Mondegreen}} what the hell]] [[LyricalShoehorn they might be]] [[WordSaladLyrics singing in each song]].

* {{Mondegreen}}: During the chorus of Needled 24/7, one line can be misinterpreted as, "MY ASS JUST CATCHES FIRE AND MY HEART STARTS TO BURN!"

* Daniel Freyberg - rhythm guitar, backing vocals

* LeadBassist: Henkka Seppälä was primarily Type C, as the FaceOfTheBand alongside Alexi Laiho.However, he is no longer in the band.