COB Interviews

[the phenom]

"The vocals have remained very much as extreme as ever – is that important?
Of course, there are people who say, 'You should get clean vocals so you will sell more albums,' and we're like, "No no no…' It's part of our music, an instrument like the others, it's just that way. Peter Tätgren had very good ideas on how to use voice on the new album, because he is a vocalist himself, so he had some very good and amazing ideas. "

Ohhh the irony...

[(__Joonas__)]

COB vocals have become too clean already. I really hope there's a vast improvement in the next album. (Could we please have the fucking title already?) What is Alexi's current singing categorized as? It just sounds retarded if you think about it negatively. It's supposed to be death but also they want people to understand it. That's fine, but if only they made some effort to it. I hope Peter will style it up, so it's not just Alexi screaming drunk.

[SteveMCsteve]

Originally Posted by Shadeg

If you consider it was 20 years ago, I think he looks pretty goddamn old

[the phenom]

Originally Posted by Joonas Lehtonen

COB vocals have become too clean already. I really hope there's a vast improvement in the next album. (Could we please have the fucking title already?) What is Alexi's current singing categorized as? It just sounds retarded if you think about it negatively. It's supposed to be death but also they want people to understand it. That's fine, but if only they made some effort to it. I hope Peter will style it up, so it's not just Alexi screaming drunk.

Well Tägtgren maybe will try to improve his vocals?:P Gremlin singing for the win! Nah i think his voice is ok but his hatebreeder/FTR vocals were great!

[Mystique1721]

Originally Posted by SteveMCsteve

Roope looks so young

he was pretty cute in his young days

[(__Joonas__)]

Originally Posted by the phenom

Well Tägtgren maybe will try to improve his vocals?:P Gremlin singing for the win! Nah i think his voice is ok but his hatebreeder/FTR vocals were great!

The songs would kick so much ass if he concentrated on the lyrics more.

Fuck it..

Tie My Rope is like eating spaghetti with shit on it!

[the phenom]

Originally Posted by Joonas Lehtonen

The songs would kick so much ass if he concentrated on the lyrics more.

Fuck it..

Tie My Rope is like eating spaghetti with shit on it!

Yeah. The spaghetti was also cooked in piss

[jhonnah]

I hope this isn't posted before... It's about Guitar Heroes. In Finnish.

[Lanterns]

Would a scan or something of the COB story in the current issue of Revolver be too much to ask? Pretty pretty please with a cherry and a bottle of Finlandia Cranberry on top...!

You see, the magazine is not available where I live (I'm sure I'm not the only one in that situation!). I've been thinking about subscribing, but wondering if a. the few really interesting things (CoB stories etc) would be worth it and b. subscribing now would actually also get you the current issue or only start at the next.

[SteveMCsteve]

Theres an update on Studio Diaries on www.cobhc.com

[sleeper666]

@ Lanterns: This is the text of the CoB piece in the current (December) issue of Revolver:

When Children of Bodom got off the road in November 2006, frontman Alexi Laiho should have been ecstatic - the power-thrashers had just
concluded two years of successful touring. Instead, he was far too angry and frustrated to celebrate. "I was so tired of everything and everybody,"
he says. "I was just like, 'Fuck this, I'm going to get drunk.'" Laiho plunged into an alcohol stupor that lasted several months. Then, last spring, he
sobered up and started writing again. "It was hard, because when I finally woke up, I felt twice as fucked up as before I started drinking," he says.
"But when I got my shit together, I came up with some good stuff."
That "stuff" includes nine new Bodom songs, which the band will start recording in December (?) with co-producer Peter Tagtgren. The yet-
untitled record will include "Pray for the Devil", "Good Morning Roadkill" and "Tie My Rope" and is tentatively scheduled for release in March.
"I was in a really aggressive mood, so I think the songs are thrashier and faster than the ones on (2005's) "Are You Dead Yet?", Laiho says. "It's a
faster album, but some of it is more progressive. You'll just have to hear it."

[Lanterns]

Thanks sleeper666!
It's obvious Revolver got something a little messed up though, as the recording already started some time ago as we all know, duh.
And was that really all of the story or is there more?

[(__Joonas__)]

I think he already went to the cabin in Lapland a year ago and recorded some ideas with guitar.. last spring they already had 5 songs ready!

[Shadowz]

On the site it says next week is the last week for them in the studio, too bad the album will come out march next year tho

[COBHC Webmaster]

Originally Posted by Shadowz

On the site it says next week is the last week for them in the studio, too bad the album will come out march next year tho

*April next year.

[(__Joonas__)]

Yes, more than 4 full months after it's completely finished, mixed and mastered.

I wanna know why? What have I done to deserve this.

[OvSeth]

I didn't know where to post THIS, but it made me smile.

Go to "George Lynch" and watch his video. At about 2/3rds of the video, he talks about Alexi for a brief moment and apparently Alexi is scary .

[Altitudes]

That was an insult to Randy!

[OvSeth]

I hadn't heard that! ( I couldn't understand what he was saying earlier, there was too much noise )

[Altitudes]

Did you turn off the media player at the bottom?

[SteveMCsteve]

lol street angst

[I_AM_CANADIAN!]

I don't know where to put this but, here 'goes. Here's something completely different. It is not an interview and has almost nothing to do with Children of Bodom except for a small music clip at the end. It's actually a dude dressed up in a rather neat looking Space Marine suit holding some candles then hitting a guitar against a tree, but what the hell, eh? Here's is yet another oddity where Bodom's music has been used.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=59zodpE9x5Q

[The Emptier]

that is the coolest outfit i've ever seen

[Shadowz]

Originally Posted by COBHC Webmaster

*April next year.

Next years it is!

[deeptallica]

Originally Posted by I_AM_CANADIAN!

I don't know where to put this but, here 'goes. Here's something completely different. It is not an interview and has almost nothing to do with Children of Bodom except for a small music clip at the end. It's actually a dude dressed up in a rather neat looking Space Marine suit holding some candles then hitting a guitar against a tree, but what the hell, eh? Here's is yet another oddity where Bodom's music has been used.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=59zodpE9x5Q

I hope you win, that vid is awesome