Horrible cover, terrible video, lets expect yet another "are you dead yet?" or "blooddrunk." I thought this was a christimas album when I first saw the cover

Quote:
But we were determined to make the best COB album ever

I lol'd.

Pussy band ... Pussyfoot Miss Suicide .... well I hate when he's called modern day guitar hero, he is not and what wa spurpose of it if we can hear any single singing part?

Holy f#@k. skatesboard and shit.

Weird art.... this is these guys' last chance fer me....im trying to remain positive, here...so heres hoping for a great album!

If you like to hear more of New : Children Of Bodom go here..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-po4aqmTaY

Sounds damn soft and lame. Shitty mainstream metal band.
No wonder they make an Eddie Murphy cover.

All they care for is Billboard charts, getting the attention of skateboarding teenagers and boasting about Guitar Hero.
As sold out as a metal band can be. It's this kind of thing, among others, that make me hate the current metal scene.

Sadly RavenKing is right : I very much suspect this Bodom album to be a sellout and a major dissappointment to old fans.

First I saw the cover, and I was like: cool stuff.
Then I saw the guitar hero/"best album ever" reference and I was like: hmmm something is wrong...
Then I read the tracklist and I was like: wtf ! definitely wrong !
And the video....that video.... I went: skateboard + soft riff... OMG poser aleeeert !

Only positive thing is that the song didn't start with a nintendo keyboard.
Hope mainstream fans and skater kids enjoy it but i'll stick to the old three.

Written by 4look4rd on 11.12.2010 at 16:08

Horrible cover, terrible video, lets expect yet another "are you dead yet?" or "blooddrunk." I thought this was a christimas album when I first saw the cover

lol exactly what I thought, the tree on the left looks like a christmas tree!

Hell yes! Who cares about the video...the song on the teaser sounds fuckin' good. Can't wait for this one to come out!

Written by Carl Berg on 11.12.2010 at 17:46

Sadly RavenKing is right : I very much suspect this Bodom album to be a sellout and a major dissappointment to old fans.

How can they sell out with the new album when they have considered sell-outs for years now? Their preferred route has been evident for at least 5 years now, some might say that Hate Crew Deathroll fits into the category as well (which would make it 7 years).

Why in the world anyone is expecting them to go back to their roots is beyond me...

For the record, I used to be a big fan of Bodom, then I was less of a fan, now I sometimes listen to their songs, I think Blooddrunk was a boring album, but AYDY was at least memorable. I didn't watch the videos, but I will wait for the album to come out nonetheless.

I'm crying
Awful cover, awful tracklist and awful video... awful album incoming.
I want the Follow the Reaper era back.

Looks like a Korn cover xDDD

Written by Vunts on 11.12.2010 at 19:25

Written by Carl Berg on 11.12.2010 at 17:46

Sadly RavenKing is right : I very much suspect this Bodom album to be a sellout and a major dissappointment to old fans.

How can they sell out with the new album when they have considered sell-outs for years now? Their preferred route has been evident for at least 5 years now, some might say that Hate Crew Deathroll fits into the category as well (which would make it 7 years).

Why in the world is anyone expecting them to go back to their roots is beyond me...

Just to be sure everything is clear: I never said Bodom are solding out now. I consider this band as a shitty sold out mainstream metal band since many years. And I think all their albums after FTR suck.

And I don't expect them to go back to their roots anytime soon. The band has fallen in the pit of mediocrity and most likely will never get out of it. As long as the band is under the lead of a braindead alcoholic, drug addict and immature little bitch like Alexi Laiho, it will never go anywhere musically.

That's it...those kids are screwed....so much for Something Wild or Hatebreeder or the glorious Follow The Reaper....those were the golden days. let's just hope that the Eddy Murphy cover would be funny so the rest of the album won't be so god damn sad!

Is it just me or the the tree on the left of the artwork rather... Christmas-y?

Written by [user id=106439] on 11.12.2010 at 20:29

That's it...those kids are screwed....so much for Something Wild or Hatebreeder or the glorious Follow The Reaper....those were the golden days. let's just hope that the Eddy Murphy cover would be funny so the rest of the album won't be so god damn sad!

I doubt that we'll hear the awesome tunes of Something Wild, Hatebreeder or Follow The Reaper in this one.

Written by Kintu on 11.12.2010 at 19:40

I'm crying
Awful cover, awful tracklist and awful video... awful album incoming.
I want the Follow the Reaper era back.

I'm right there with you. Follow the Reaper was them at their prime, and in the right state of mind to make great music. It seems now that partying is the primary focus, and music is just a part of it. I think they've been listening to a little bit too much Andrew W.K. This album cover looks like a cheap Tim Burton rip-off.

Those are some of the most hilariously shitty song titles I've seen this year. Not expecting anything else from these guys though.

This would be funny if they were like 14. Now it's just sad.

But whatever, I actually have good metal to listen to, and COB has not interested me in the slightest for quite some time. I'm outa here.

The begining of "Was it worth it?" sounds kinda like metalcore. Or it's just me?
The other video was great, sounds like there are couple of treasures in this album.

Written by ForeverDarkWoods on 11.12.2010 at 23:25

Those are some of the most hilariously shitty song titles I've seen this year. Not expecting anything else from these guys though.

This would be funny if they were like 14. Now it's just sad.

But whatever, I actually have good metal to listen to, and COB has not interested me in the slightest for quite some time. I'm outa here.

Apparently they have interested you quite recently, or else you wouldn't have checked their link out, taken the time to read up on the track list and form an opinion, and grace us with your comment.

Written by [user id=35037] on 12.12.2010 at 00:32

Written by ForeverDarkWoods on 11.12.2010 at 23:25

Those are some of the most hilariously shitty song titles I've seen this year. Not expecting anything else from these guys though.

This would be funny if they were like 14. Now it's just sad.

But whatever, I actually have good metal to listen to, and COB has not interested me in the slightest for quite some time. I'm outa here.

Apparently they have interested you quite recently, or else you wouldn't have checked their link out, taken the time to read up on the track list and form an opinion, and grace us with your comment.

Actually I was more hoping to be graced with some kind of lol inducing crappiness, and out of boredom and nothing better to do I clicked the link. What I found was vomit inducing.

As strange as this may sound, the guiatar work kind of reminds me of the unbound-somewhat-progressivish work on Follow the Reaper and Hatecrew Deathrow....just a hell uv'a' lot less inspired. Well at least they found a targeted audience (15 year olds)

Oh man and this used to be my favourite band 4 years ago or something

What the fuck......
thats all im going to say... but i may check it out

Everytime COB releases something new the same haters show up to say how much they hate this band. On another forum, when AYDY was released in 2006, I said something like these days it seems SO COOL to hate COB. I have no problem with people saying that they don't like something, but the thing that bothers me is that sometimes it seems they judge the band only by the way they look, their album covers (you really have a problem with your eyes or in your head if you think a tree with corpses in it looks like a Christmas Tree) or by their popularity, forgetting the quality of the music. Even when the quality of the music is mentionned in these posts, it's by underdevelopped commentaries like: 'This is shit'? But why? Why do metalheads have a problem with popularity???? Being popular doesn't necessarily involve 'selling out' or compromising the quality of the music. And have you ever thought of the point of recording music and selling an album if it's not to become somewhat popular?

To me COB didn't really sell out. Metallica sold out, they abandonned Thrash metal and even Metal to play a crappy sort of heavy rock which doesn't even remind their glory days. COB evolved, but they still play the same genre they played in their beginning.

Also, concerning the decision to put skateboarders in their video is not a suprise. Alexi is a fan of extreme sports since a long time ago so it doesn't come as a surprise to me. I even think it makes something refreshing instead of doing the same shit Metal bands do everytime they shoot a videoclip: shooting the band playing in a grim lookin' place.

I don't like COB as much as when they released Hatebreeder, but it has nothing to do with the way they dress or their videoclips. I think COB is still a good band but they evolved in a direction and I evolved too as a listener in a different direction.

And the people saying Alexi Laiho is not a guitar hero lol! I would like to see them grab a guitar and play better solos than him. You can criticize his music but you can't say ihe is not a kick-ass guitar player that's being hypocritical. I don't like Luca Turilli last solo albums but I can't say he is not a guitar-hero that's bullshit. I don't like Yngwie Malmsteen's music, but I can't say he is a bad guitar player because he is one of the best there is.


And lol, like if you could judge the album by 10 seconds of each songs..... On the teasers I heard you don't even ear a full single riff. You haters have as much credibility as fanboys...

My two-cents!

It looks like they need Kuoppala back. Everything since Latvala has joined the band has been shit. I'm not hating him he's a good guitar player, but Kuoppala seems to be a better fit. The track names in this are pure shit. I think they need this album to flop and to be dropped by nuclear blast. Maybe then, when they're back at the bottom, they can rise anew.

Also: no songs mentioning Lake Bodom. What the fuck is that?

That is one wicked cover. I don't know about the songs.. but I hope they're better than what I'm expecting at the moment. I just miss the Follow the Reaper times...

Bodom, prepare for itemised insults.

Looks/ Appearance: The album cover looks like a halloween-themed video game. Using skaters in the video sadly reminds me more of Avril Lavigne than Andrew WK which is probably what they were going for.

'Sold Out' status: Specifically mentioning they are 'on the verge of US breakthrough' in the blurb makes it clear that is the only market they are interested in since that's where the money is. It just means the music has to be dumbed way way down. No offense to the US, but the mainstream pop music industry there is almost as phlegm-inducing as the one in the UK - just with more money going into it.

Music: Was it Worth it, sounds like the sort of dull, dry hard rock song popular euro power metal bands do these days. The rest of the samples sound like rehashes of old Bodom material.

Popularity: I have no problems with them being popular. Let's not forget the most popular metal bands in the world include my favourites - Sabbath and Maiden. Popular is fine. Its the way they're getting there that's lame.