Karma: Here's a quick round of Speed Round Questions.

Alexi: Alright.

Karma: What's your mantra or rule of thumb that you live your life by?

Alexi: Umm, let me think.  I don't really think about stuff, I just do it.  And I guess that's what it is.  I don't want to think to much, I'd just rather act.

Karma: Are you spiritual or religious?

Alexi: No, I'd don't have a religion at all.  I don't believe in spirituality and that shit.

Karma: You have been dubbed captain of the drinking team and it's your mission to assemble a new drinking event for the Olympics, who would choose to be on your team & who would you oppose? 

Alexi: A drinking team?

Karma: Yes.

Alexi: I would pick our sound guy, Hooch.  I would also pick…so it could be anybody?

Karma: You got it, anybody you want!

Alexi: It would probably be Zakk Wylde, Dimebag Darrell…I don't know, who else drinks a lot?  Let's just say there's only going to be 5 and let's get our other guitar player, Roope.

Karma: Who would you go up against?

Alexi: Probably some band that doesn't really drink!  [we both laugh hysterically]  I don't know, some straight edge, hardcore band!  That would not be fair, but still…if I could pick…  [we laugh]

Karma: Top 5 favorite movies?

Alexi: Oh man…top 5.  Hmmm, Amadeus, it's not like in any order…

Karma: Okay.

Alexi: Blues Brothers, I need movies…fuck! [laughs] Sidd & Nancy and let em think, The Shining and…fuck…  Oh, I just saw this movie the other week and it was the funniest thing I had seen in years, Bad Santa, so I'm going to have to say that one!

Karma: Oh that is a funny movie!

Alexi: Yeah, definitely! 

Karma: What's your favorite time of the year?

Alexi: I mean it's hard because in Finland we get really, really cold winters and in the summers are nice, their like 70° and spring and autumn and the whole thing.  It changes all the times but it's just hard to pick one.  During summertime I start missing winter and wintertime I'm like, 'Shit, it should be summer!' But right now I will say summer.

Karma: Okay, what's you favorite color?

Alexi: Well I'm not going to say black because it's so obvious, you know but it's one of them. It is such a basic color though...uhhh, it changes all of the time but I would say dark blue right now.

Karma: What's underneath your bed?

Alexi: At home or on the tour bus?  [laughs]

Karma: Let's go with home. [we both laugh]

Alexi: A bunch of stuff, maybe an occasional pizza box that I forgot…

Karma: What’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to you?

Alexi: A lot of bad things has happened to me so it's hard to pick one.  Hold on, this requires some thinking definitely.  Okay, I would have to say the worst feeling I ever had was when…well I used to be completely fucked in the head and I had a complete nervous breakdown.  And I was in the hospital for like 5 days or whatever.  So that was like the worst feeling I ever had.

Karma: Sorry to hear that!

Alexi: Yeah, but this was like 5 years ago or whatever but I'm okay now but I used to be really fucked in the head, it happens.

Karma: What's your best memory?

Alexi: Oh man, that's a tough one as well.  I guess maybe it could be when we first got signed.  And that was the first time I really got something out of something that I had been working on for years and years.  It's kind of hard to explain but it was a special feeling in a way.

Karma: Do you play another instrument?

Alexi: Uhh, yeah, I like to play drums, well I play bass and guitar of course and I like to play keyboards but I'm really, really bad at it!

Karma: What’s your favorite smell?

Alexi: Let me think, it all depends if I was hung over or not but I love the smell of beer but I also love the smell of coffee too.  So it could be either one.

Karma: Live or dead: If you could host a dinner party of 5, whom would you invite?

Alexi: Probably everybody on my drinking team and that's about it!  It would be a drinking party.

Karma: What pisses you off?

Alexi: A lot of things actually, people judging people on the basis of what they look like and by what they wear.

Karma: If not music, then what?

Alexi: Nothing! I honestly don't know what I would do because there's nothing else I can do and there's nothing else I want to do.  And you know I dropped out of school when I was 16 and I don't know shit this is the only thing I know how to do.  If not music, then I'd just have to be a bum.

Karma: If you could travel the spans of time, which era would you visit?

Alexi: I would buy a ticket to LA and visit the early 80's.

Karma: What is your favorite day of the week?

Alexi: I don't know, Friday maybe Saturday.

Karma: If you could commission a band to do a cover song of yours, which song would it be?

Alexi: It could be any band, and they could be broken up, right?

Karma: Yes.

Alexi: Maybe Pantera doing "Needled 24/7"

Karma: If stranded on a Desert Island, whom would like to be marooned with?

Alexi: How many people?

Karma: As many as you wanted!

Alexi: Okay…a bunch of friends back home and of course; one of them has to be a female.  [we both laugh] My best friends and stuff like that. 

Karma: Thank you Alexi, I really appreciate it!

Alexi: You're welcome!

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