The metalheads who hate Bodom do so because they got told by someone that COB is gay and Laiho is like this dude with fingernail ink. Everybody listens to Bodom at 13, but when they get 14, one of their friends tells them "hey dude, if you wanna be cool, don't listen to Bodom, they're like the ghey stuff... listen to bands like BFMV and everybody thinks you're musically advanced... when you say you don't listen to Bodom anymore, everybody thinks you can play their solos and can write better songs." It's never based on musical opinion. The fact is it's very fucking trendy to diss Bodom. That's the bottom line. What comes to other people, it's the vocals, they get confused by anger in vocals and not understanding the lyrics. I guess it's kinda threatening to some metal fans that this band has amazing melodies and killer playing and super catchy songs and they can do it so confidently they even have party melodies in there and still sound metal. We just have to be happy we belong in the small minority who enjoy the best music in the world. And just try to swallow the annoying feelings when we come across a Bodom disliker. Lay down the musical argumentation... don't go there, they have a filter and can't understand. Just realizing "you like Bodom, I don't" or the other way is enough to poison the chemistry between two people.
