Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

This band is not my type. i've decided that now. i ddint enjoy this album a lot. but i can see that it can be a good album for people with a bit different preferences.

Written by Deadmeat on 22.02.2010 at 00:21

i ddint enjoy this album a lot.

Me too. IMO it's overrated and it isn't the best Children Of Bodom album at all. "Hatebreeder" and "Something Wild" are better than it.

Written by [user id=41780] on 22.02.2010 at 00:39

Written by Deadmeat on 22.02.2010 at 00:21

i ddint enjoy this album a lot.

Me too. IMO it's overrated and it isn't the best Children Of Bodom album at all. "Hatebreeder" and "Something Wild" are better than it.

not listened to those 2 albums yet. but i've heard other people saying exactly the same thing with you...

Written by Deadmeat on 22.02.2010 at 00:42

Written by [user id=41780] on 22.02.2010 at 00:39

Written by Deadmeat on 22.02.2010 at 00:21

i ddint enjoy this album a lot.

Me too. IMO it's overrated and it isn't the best Children Of Bodom album at all. "Hatebreeder" and "Something Wild" are better than it.

not listened to those 2 albums yet. but i've heard other people saying exactly the same thing with you...

yeah, even I can say "Hate Crew Deathroll" is better than it too.

Written by Deadmeat on 22.02.2010 at 00:42

Written by [user id=41780] on 22.02.2010 at 00:39

Written by Deadmeat on 22.02.2010 at 00:21

i ddint enjoy this album a lot.

Me too. IMO it's overrated and it isn't the best Children Of Bodom album at all. "Hatebreeder" and "Something Wild" are better than it.

not listened to those 2 albums yet. but i've heard other people saying exactly the same thing with you...

Well for me these two albums are very good without doubt, but I think that with this one Children Of Bodom reached the peak of their amazing creation with still fresh original ideas and pure agressive performance. After ''Follow The Reaper'' their road quickly went downhill.

Mmm...Children Of Decadence ..is the best!

Excellent ...

Fantastic. if u love melody with brutality, u definitely should check this out. and the production is incredible. crystal clear and crushing.

Better than Something Wild and Blooddrunk by far, which are the other 2 Bodom albums I've heard. Still have a softspot for the latter, though.

Overall my favourite COB album, purely for the beautiful combination of melody and powerful guitar techniques.

Follow the Reaper the song just rips!

Written by [user id=41780] on 22.02.2010 at 00:39

IMO it's overrated and it isn't the best Children Of Bodom album at all. "Hatebreeder" and "Something Wild" are better than it.

Yeah this one was never my fave. i think the keyboards and the catchy choruses are just a tad to overbearing on this album. Though its still a great album with extremely techniqal guitars, atmostspheric keys, catchy choruses, and brootal yet beautifal melodies. I think the catchiness is why its so popular.

Here's how I see it; this album is an amazing 3rd installment after 2 other great releases. It was followed by a very good 4th outing with Hatecrew Deathroll., but after that though, their next 3 took a severe drop in quality, especially Blooddrunk and Are You Dead Yet?

Godlike. Their best. "Hatebreeder" made them melodic death stars. "Follow the Reaper" made them one the best metal bands ever. At almost the same time Nightwish made the similar moves with "Oceanborn" and "Wishmaster". IMHO, these 2 albums of 2000 year sealed metal as reborn genre after 5 or 6 years of struggle, search and changes.

Some good songs but that synthesizer kills it for me.

Written by deadone on 23.12.2013 at 00:15

I prefer Something Wild and Hatebreeder. But to be fair I never gave this album much of a chance due to near constant state of inebriation when it came out.

I did get Hatecrew Deathroll (by which time I was slightly more sober) but it didn't really grab me either. So I never went back to Follow The Reaper.

Follow The Reaper is quite a bit superior to HCDR.

Emm, this one is better. I like this album and it's one of their best works.

Written by MetalAce on 10.01.2014 at 19:41

Emm, this one is better. I like this album and it's one of their best works.

Do all their albums feature prominent synthesizer? I just wanted to check because if the answer is yes, I'm not interested in exploring anymore of their catalogue. I'm a rabid anti-synthite.

Written by Ace Frawley on 11.01.2014 at 10:37

Do all their albums feature prominent synthesizer? I just wanted to check because if the answer is yes, I'm not interested in exploring anymore of their catalogue. I'm a rabid anti-synthite.

It's not synth, it's keyboard. And yes, they're keyboardist is very prominent in all their music. One of the aspects of their music which garnered them a lot of attention from the very beginning was their penchant for tandem guitar/keyboard solos.

This is indeed better than HCDr, but HCDr is still quite enjoyable. The newest album was like an awful, tired and hackneyed version of it.

Written by psykometal on 01.03.2014 at 00:58

It's not synth, it's keyboard. And yes, they're keyboardist is very prominent in all their music. One of the aspects of their music which garnered them a lot of attention from the very beginning was their penchant for tandem guitar/keyboard solos.

No other band I listen to has keyboards competing with the guitar and indulging in lead breaks, so it's quite different from anything else I've listened to. To be honest, I don't really like the sound of keyboards or synthesizer as a main instrument. I prefer keyboards to be in the background, a bit like how they are played in Enslaved. It's just my personal preference. Obviously Children of Bodom are hugely popular, so it's something a lot of people are comfortable with. And Children of Bodom have been around for a long time, so they've made a successful career out of it. Good on 'em. I still enjoy some of the songs on this album, that's for sure.

Written by Ace Frawley on 01.03.2014 at 10:34

No other band I listen to has keyboards competing with the guitar and indulging in lead breaks, so it's quite different from anything else I've listened to. To be honest, I don't really like the sound of keyboards or synthesizer as a main instrument. I prefer keyboards to be in the background, a bit like how they are played in Enslaved. It's just my personal preference. Obviously Children of Bodom are hugely popular, so it's something a lot of people are comfortable with. And Children of Bodom have been around for a long time, so they've made a successful career out of it. Good on 'em. I still enjoy some of the songs on this album, that's for sure.

That's what I loved about their music in the first 4 albums. Everything after HCDr is crap, except Halo of Blood. And even then, as you can see by Joe's comment above, it's rather HCDr-esque.

Well, surely this one kicks asses as the previous ones.

A very disappointing album. I remember getting this back when it came out, and was quickly let down by its messy production and average material overall. I have never really understood the hype surrounding Everytime I die, people keep telling me how awesome and mind blowing it is, but I just don't get it at all. For me it's just an average song, just like the rest.

This album is very fun to listen to! It's in my opinion a pretty unique mix of power, speed, and death metal (and the vocals are like in black metal).
I love how the guitar and keyboards work seamlessly together! Alexi Laiho was very talented and his work won't be forgotten! R.I.P.

This is probably as close to perfect as you can get, at least if you like this style of course. Performances are extremely good, songwriting is awesome, it is a very fun record to listen to, the album has great sense of theatrics with its keyboards that fit with its themes, and the production is pretty darn good. There is not one song here that I don't have a blast to listen to. Even the covers are very enjoyable.

As a finnish metalhead, of course I have heard this album many, many times. There was even a small period when I was tired of the band but I found my enthusiasm again after a while.

Follow The Reaper is probably my second favorite album or maybe tied with Something Wild. No weak songs on this one and it's maybe the most consistent album in my opinion but it lacks the highlights which make Hatebreeder the best.

Slightly overrated, at least its rating should not be higher than Hatebreeder.

Idk I prefer this one to Hatebreeder in every way. I agree it’s still very overrated though, as are all of their albums.

I enjoy this a lot more than Hatebreeder, personally.

My personal Top 3 songs from the album:

Bodom After Midnight
Hate Me!
Follow The Reaper