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Skeletons In The Closet
(Nuclear Blast - 2009)
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Children Of Bodom are known for their love to cover songs and quite a few found their way onto single B-sides and compilations. Now they decided to give their fans the full package and yo you get 17 cover versions which will rock every metal party!
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Hellhounds On My Trail
(Spinefarm - 2008)
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With Hellhounds On My Trail the British fans of Children Of Bodom get a special EP only available in the UK. Especially the 3 live tracks recorded earlier this year at London's Astoria are interesting - not just for fans from the Kingdom. |
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Without compromises and hardly direct Children Of Bodom are sucking into the first song Hellhounds On My Trail. Heavy guitar riffs and angry voices are leading this fast, typical modern Bodom song. Straight after that the title track Blooddrunk is starting with typical keyboard and double bass blasting and this riff is heard all over the whole song. There also is an scream-around refrain. Lobodomy could fit to some new, but also to the old COB albums. One Day You Will Cry does start different to the rest of Bodom songs with some quiet keyboards, but instantly they are putting the tempo to an higher level. Smile Pretty For The Devil could also be an older song off Hate Crew Deathroll. It´s fast snare drum during the verse and the complex guitar riffs during the bridge are impressing. Right after that, one of the typical headbang songs Tie My Rope starts. It could be a really great live song (I gonna check'em out on November, 23rd. Check out my review then!). |
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The Finnish band Children Of Bodom is one of the hottest live bands nowadays and they really smoke! That they show now on CD and DVD. The concert was recorded in Stockholm during the Are You Dead Yet? tour in February 2006. Alexi Laiho and his gang put together a great set list - see below - and the DVD shows the band with their typical stage appearance. The close-ups are cool, but also the shoots from the back of the stage. Sure, some images of the crowd had been added to give you a real live feel. And it's obvious that band and fans enjoyed this show very much. A good documentation of a COB live show! Total running time: 183 min.
Deleted Scenes + Photo Gallery |
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Fans of the Finnish were waiting impatiently for the new album of Children Of Bodom, finally it's in the stores. They start with Living Dead Beat which could have been on Hate Crew Deathroll... Janne Warman's keyboards take the edge of the up-tempo melodic death metal, it's more death'n'thrash. Again the album is less then 40 minutes, something COB got criticized for in the past. Last year they released the EP Trashed, Lost & Strungout - the title track is on this release, too - to shorten the time until this album hit the streets. Well, perhaps all this can be blamed on the broken wrist of mainman Alexi 'Wildchild' Laiho, but I think they should have put more efford into this... Are You Dead Yet? can keep up with their last full-length album, even if it ain't bad... A fast one, a real neckbreaker they present with If You Want Peace... Prepare For War. Here Janne's keyboard is building a counterpart to the shredding guitars. The vocals of Alexi Laiho are darker this time, but that fits pretty well to the music. With Punch Me I Bleed they slow down to mid-tempo. More power metal, but the raspy vocals of Laiho add some heaviness and at the same times limits the band. The following In Your Face is straight forward again with a heavy groove. A thrashy one, but has some catchiness in the bridge... Next In Line is combining different elements... Powerful metal with progressive elements, the rawness of melodic death metal, twin guitar riffing and thrashing guitars. This seems to be the new COB sound... Coz these elements you find in most tracks. At Bastards Of Bodom they continue this way work with breaks, a grooving bass and some new sound elements. For fans of the early Bodom kids days this is to far from their original sound and purists will hate it, I guess.... Its kind of a trip through their musical past to their present sound. More thrashing in the beginning and at the end more divert. The last track of the album We're Not Gonna Fall is combining different elements and won't be what many fans expect, but might open up for new fans... |
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The Finnish quintet started back in 1997 to conquer the metal world by storm with Something Wild. The rest is history! |
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This is the follow-up of Something Wild. "Now we are enemies- you and I!" That's what you here first, just to lead into some fast, heavy melodic death metal track - Warheart. Mainman Alexi Laiho's sounding mean. Again the guitar work is incredible. The guitar riffing of Silent Night, Bodom Night is influenced by 80's metal heroes, but then it becomes a death metal anthem. The cruely of the death metal smoothened by some keyboard parts and some whispered words. But soon they are back. It's like a battle between the bad and the good. And surprising twists keep you listening. The title track Hatebreeder is even faster, but has the now known trademarks of the COB sound. In comparison with Something Wild this one is more a death metal album, even if it has untypical elements. It's heavier and more aggressive, but still the guitar solos are influenced by 80's metal and power metal. Slowly starts Black Widow, a more mid-tempo one. Based on twin guitar riffing like you know it from bands like Accept and Iron Maiden, but then the vocals join in and the impression of a heavy 80's metal songs is gone. This one will be killer live! Can't wait to hear that one at a show! The following Wrath Within is faster, a neck-breaker! Okay, again the five-some throw in some keyboard parts and a melodic guitar solo - gives the headbanger a short break. Especially at this song the keyboard is the counterpart to the guitar riffing and the mean, spitted vocal attacks. |
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Thunder.... some noises.... laughter... Then they come over you with Deadnight Warrior. The Finnish youngsters create their own sound by mixing death metal, black metal elements and power metal-influenced guitars. Especially the hoarse vocals of mainman Alexi Laiho - not really grunts or growls - of Alexi will make them more interesting for the death metal fans then for the typical power metal head, but open-minded should give them a chance... The keybaord of Janne Wirman adds some melody and delivers a playgound for the guitar riffing of Alexi Laiho and Alexander Kuoppala. |
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