Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper review
| Band: | Children Of Bodom |
| Album: | Follow The Reaper |
| Style: | Extreme power metal |
| Release date: | October 30, 2000 |
| A review by: | Dream Taster |
01. Follow The Reaper
02. Bodom After Midnight
03. Children Of Decadence
04. Everytime I Die
05. Mask Of Sanity
06. Taste Of My Scythe
07. Hate Me!
08. Northern Comfort
09. Kissing The Shadows
10. Hellion [W.A.S.P. cover] [bonus]
11. Shot In The Dark [Ozzy Osbourne cover] [Japanese bonus]
12. Don't Stop At The Top [Scorpions cover] [Finnish bonus]
13. Aces High [Iron Maiden cover] [Deluxe Edition bonus]
14. Hate Me! [Original Single version] [2008 re-release bonus]
+ Everytime I Die [video] [Deluxe Edition bonus]
Children of Bodom? It's hard to describe their music if you've never heard it before. It's a mix of power metal, speed metal and on the other side black/death metal for vocals! Let's say that it's just amazing. For their third album, Children of Bodom has taken the good things of their two previous ones and added some boosted melodies. As a result, Follow the Reaper is a brilliant cocktail of angry riffs and sweet but fast melodies.
The first song, "Follow the Reaper" perfectly introduces the tone of the album. Solos in all the songs - of course! - and ravenous vocals. The highlights of this album are "Everytime I Die" and "Hate Me!" [with a very deep chorus: 'I don't give a fuck of you hate me'!]. What to say about the rest? One of the best albums ever. "Mask of Sanity" and "Kissing the Shadows" kick ass as well. The alternative play of two real geniuses, Alexi 'Wildchild' Lahio on lead guitar [and vocals] and Janne Warman on keyboards, makes CoB's music wonderful. And once you've caught their melodies, you can't stop listening to Follow the Reaper. By the way, I've seen them on stage and I couldn't believe my eyes: Lahio is playing all guitar solos but also part of the rhythm in addition to vocals!
Always on the top in their own particular style, Children of Bodom play here an excellent power/speed/death metal, full of incredible solos, performed by Alexi 'Wildchild' Lahio and his "twin musician" Janne Warman. Follow the Reaper is a masterpiece that would establish the band as the leader of the Finnish metal army.
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Rating: 9.5 |
Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, thou art not so. The follow up album to Hatebreeder, this album too has a very good little speach to kick it off. The five peace melo-death/extreme power metallers are back and better than ever with this album. This album, like their previous work has infamous neo-classical passeges, legendary harmonies, and solid rhythm work. Ladies and gentlemen, I have followed the reaper and I have tasted his scythe, it was sweet. Read more ›› |
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This is one of the best albums ever made! it is simply brilliant! The first Power Metal album I ever owned  It will always be one of my top favourites, when I was about 14 years old or so and I had a shitty day at school, I would always pop in this CD. Damn, Children Of Bodom will never release a better album!  The neo-classical riffing, the guitar and keyboard solo battles. WOW! simply mind blowing! 
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| Stigmatized .......... Posts: 3820  |
Their best effort, for sure. I don't really listen to anything after this album, but this one is truly great.
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| Talvi Posts: 825  |
Amazing, but Hatebreed is a bit better overall. Even though, one hell of an album. Extremely recomended
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| Bitch Boy Posts: 1353  |
This is my favorite CoB album without any doubt, the solos are amazing, and almost every song is amazing.
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| Doc G. Full Grown Hoser Staff Posts: 9718  |
Even though Hate Crew Death Roll is my favorite album opinion wise, objectively speaking this is there best album, quite a masterpiece.
---- "I got a lot of really good ideas, problem is, most of them suck." - George Carlin
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| Dreamwar_86 To Arms! Posts: 480  |
After this album Cob went Downhill but this one is great i love every single track on it especially Kissing Thy Shadows
---- Stay Metal !!!
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| Christophe_PL Posts: 6  |
I think this is their best album. The first tree were really sepcial but I think this is what their have been searching for on something wild and hatebreeder.
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| Warman Erotic Stains Posts: 7695  |
This was one of the albums which made me a Metalhead and it got me into growls. Do I need to say more? 
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| +{Jonas}+ I R Serious Cat Posts: 4955  |
The 1st album I heard of COB. Deffinitely a masterpiece... I actually dedicated Hate Me! To my ex's dad 
---- "Nobody wants to be the weird kid, you just end up being the weird kid. You don't know how you ended up getting there" - Rob Zombie http://jonas-bs.deviantart.com My dA, mainly photography, go check it out!
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| IronBlackZepp Posts: 180  |
Good, but I hate the vocals, Very black metal. I do think that all of the instrumentals are great. Ill give it a 7/10.
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| Elio Red Nightmare Posts: 4920  |
this album is great...hail CoB!!:banger2:
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| Uirapuru Liver Failure Posts: 2955  |
THE most overrated Children Of Bodom work. This album lacks everything: memorable riffs, quality solos, melodies, catchy power, choruses... I usually don't care about lyrics, but this one sucks too. A huge disappointment to me, after all the good things that was said about this album. I found myself thanking god for the silence between the tracks (ok, now i'm exaggerating), but with the exception of ''Hate Me!'', every track sounded too much similar, lacking everything that I was expecting after listening to their other works.
----  ---- member of the true crusade against old school heavy metal, early 80s thrash, NWOBHM, traditional doom, first and second wave black metal, old school death metal, US power metal, 70s prog rock and atmospheric doomsludgestoner. o/
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| Ellrohir Heaven Knight Posts: 8669  |
Their best album
---- My rest seems now calm and deep Finally I got my dead man sleep 
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| SatyriconChick Posts: 248  |
I'm still a pretty new CoB fan, having only heard them for the first time 2 years ago. "Hate Me" was the first song I ever heard by them, and I instantly got hooked! I promptly bought this album afterward and really enjoy it.
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| Boxcar Willy yr a kook Posts: 9156  |
Written by DethByMetal on 27.11.2009 at 21:01 I think all their albums are good 
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| Lord_Regnier Posts: 1469  |
The last listenable album from this band. After that they went downhill and suck big time now.
---- "Why would we fear death, when life is so much more frightening?"
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| Boxcar Willy yr a kook Posts: 9156 |
Written by DethByMetal on 27.11.2009 at 21:01 not really look at all the bands from germany or the U.K there really is no metal Capital. 
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