NEW ALBUM "BLOODDRUNK"

[lory]

Originally Posted by sean hughes

dunno if any one has allready posted it but according to www.play.com this is the blooddrunk album art

I find it really cool

[(__Joonas__)]

This is like the scene in HCDR 1sec later

[vikk]

it doesn't look a good edit, its pretty out of focus and the blood seems too fake. if its is really the cover, i hope they get a better quallity one

[Fetzer]

Well, if it's the real cover, I like it. More "artsy" than the other one. Reminds me of some cover by early Metal band.

[Necrö]

the blood looks cheap.

[deeptallica]

Originally Posted by Greg Moore

From English Metal Hammer

UK's Metal Hammer magazine flew to Helsinki to interview Finnish metallers CHILDREN OF BODOM recently to get the lowdown on their new album, "Blooddrunk". Frontman Alexi Laiho and keyboard player Janne Wirman were on hand to spill the beans.

1. Hellhounds On My Trail

Alexi: It isn't literally about beasts from the pits of Hell chasing you. It's about stupid things that youve done in the past that come back to haunt you. Whatever. At the end you still don't give a fuck!

Janne: Musically, it has become one of my favourites. In rehearsals you dont really hear his (Alexi) vocals but after everything got put together I became a fan of the first song.

2. Blooddrunk

Alexi: It's about being addicted to spilling your own blood. When I was younger, ten years ago I used to cut myself and all that shit. It's not necessarily just about cutting yourself but about other things you do to yourself and you don't know why. That's the theme of the album.

Janne: It is the first song since our debut album that has that triplet thing, so it feels really fresh musically.

3. LoBodomy

Janne: This is the most difficult to play. It's very aggressive. It's kind of progressive and all that shit.

Alexi: The whole song is super fucking angry. It's got that vibe to it: "These guys are super fucking pissed off!"

4. One Day You Will Cry

Janne: That was one of my favorites from the beginning.

Alexi: Same here. It's very melodic and so forth but it's also like a punch in the face. Especially with this song, I'm really happy with the vocals. It came out like world music! (starts laughing)

Janne: Compared to some of our other stuff, it's almost like pop music! But it's cool.

5. Smile Pretty For The Devil

Janne: It's based on a female character we know and that's all I can say! Is it about sexual perversion? I wish.

6. Tie My Rope (new version)

Janne: We didn't have that much interest in doing this song because we'd already recorded it once for this Bam Margera compilation "Viva La Bands Vol. 2". Even though it's a good song, it feels like there is no challenge left.

Alexi: But I definitely feel that the new version is better.

7. Done With Everything, Die For Nothing

Alexi: It was nothing but trouble this song. We went through a million riffs and a million fucking arrangements and it always sounded like fucking shit no matter what we tried to do. And then we finally got it down but even in the studio it was a fucking drag. It was always missing something. Even after recording it we had to go back to it and change it again. But then finally we got the new chorus and it all fell into place.

Janne: Before that it sounded like a parody of black metal!

8. Banned From Heaven

Alexi: This is my favorite to play. It is our slow song. It's like an old-school death metal ballad! It's very melodic, it's got a lot of rhythm and bass riffs on it.

9. Roadkill Morning

Alexi: We never had any extra songs, we put everything on the album but this time around we did actually have ten songs but we joined two of them together to become "Roadkill Morning" the last song on the album about having a hangover. When you get up and you feel like you've been hit by a truck. Luckily, the two songs had a similar kind of rhythm!

That's very cool. I still have no idea what to expect from the new album, but I get exited because of all this stuff. I hope it's worth it I'm really curious about One Day You Will Cry and Banned From Heaven. The way they spoke about it, it seems like these two are really different from the rest of the album.
Thanks for posting, it's interesting

[Fetzer]

By the way, I really doubt this is the official cover art... it would have been on COBHC or at least Scythes Of Bodom before anything in my opinion

[deeptallica]

Originally Posted by Fetzer

By the way, I really doubt this is the official cover art... it would have been on COBHC or at least Scythes Of Bodom before anything in my opinion

It is on SOB...

[FearTheReaper]

I think its cool and all that they did something new.But at the same time i would like to see the reaper.Its like what the fuck? It doesn't seem like a COB album cover to me,more like Slayer.

[Muffin]

I miss the 1 colour covers. They were so much smoother and nicer.


Its cool though. If its the real one that is.

[grey knight]

That cover is pretty cool and it has really CoB feeling in it, althrough I wish it's not that one because they had black album already, I was waiting for white or purple theme for this one, more likely white because it would have a nice kind of systematicy with the other albums, red-green, blue-orange, black and then this, I think this sucks, it could have had something like avalanche theme on it, but it's alright as long as it even looks good.

Originally Posted by FearTheReaper

I think its cool and all that they did something new.But at the same time i would like to see the reaper.Its like what the fuck? It doesn't seem like a COB album cover to me,more like Slayer.

It does have reaper in it, and it becomes more clear as you look at it, first it looked like an explosion, then I noticed (immediately) that it was blood, then I noticed the scythe and so on.

Edit: Oh fuck now I think I get it! it's like from these Bodom victim's point of view, and the reaper swings with the scythe through the dark tentwallthing, If you look at it you can see that the sky is actually white! (if it's a sky, I'm not sure, I think that the dark thing around the picture could be also bushes or something, dunno.)

I don't know, but it could be that afterall, we get a white themed album.

But also I'm not sure but I think that Aydy could also be "the white album", I don't own it so I don't know if it has more black or white...

[the phenom]

Originally Posted by grey knight

That cover is pretty cool and it has really CoB feeling in it, althrough I wish it's not that one because they had black album already, I was waiting for white or purple theme for this one, more likely white because it would have a nice kind of systematicy with the other albums, red-green, blue-orange, black and then this, I think this sucks, it could have had something like avalanche theme on it, but it's alright as long as it even looks good.



It does have reaper in it, and it becomes more clear as you look at it, first it looked like an explosion, then I noticed (immediately) that it was blood, then I noticed the scythe and so on.

Edit: Oh fuck now I think I get it! it's like from these Bodom victim's point of view, and the reaper swings with the scythe through the dark tentwallthing, If you look at it you can see that the sky is actually white! (if it's a sky, I'm not sure, I think that the dark thing around the picture could be also bushes or something, dunno.)

I don't know, but it could be that afterall, we get a white themed album.

But also I'm not sure but I think that Aydy could also be "the white album", I don't own it so I don't know if it has more black or white...

It was a bit blurry when i first saw it. I got the instant flashback of a game and realised the blood looks like the graphics in RE3 on PSX Well its cool that way too but they should make it a BIT clearer.

[Nerve]

Fuck, is that the real cover !? looks like some underground grind/death metal one.. I hope it will be worked on harder, because this one just looks made on Photofiltre by some noob.

And I don't know why, but I imagine BFH like a mix of Pain's Just Think Again, Hypocrisy's Living to Die and Punch Me I Bleed. I'm more and more curious to hear the album.

[Shadowalias345]

I think the cover is pretty fuckin' cool

[vikk]

Originally Posted by grey knight

That cover is pretty cool and it has really CoB feeling in it, althrough I wish it's not that one because they had black album already, I was waiting for white or purple theme for this one, more likely white because it would have a nice kind of systematicy with the other albums, red-green, blue-orange, black and then this, I think this sucks, it could have had something like avalanche theme on it, but it's alright as long as it even looks good.

Avalanch? WTF! SNOWhounds On My Trail!

[grey knight]

Originally Posted by vikk

Avalanch? WTF! SNOWhounds On My Trail!

IF it had white color theme, avalanche is just the first thing that comes to mind when thinkin about something deadly and white...

[Enemy242]

wow i don't realy like the cover, hopefully thats just the one for the single. it looks pretty amaturish and i was hoping for a more one color thing like the other albums, that was always something cool that really stood out to me and this just seems computer generated and not so great, especially the blooddrunk text.

[Slash Hammett]

I actually like it, well the cover is not that important after all

[Chairman Kaga]

The cover sucks.

[Kochon]

Totally

[Kritic]

Oh no! The cover sucks?!?!? That means the album is gonna suck?!? Wow, the people that constantly trash the tracklist and album art are pathetic.

[Enemy242]

Originally Posted by Kritic

Oh no! The cover sucks?!?!? That means the album is gonna suck?!? Wow, the people that constantly trash the tracklist and album art are pathetic.

i'm pretty sure not many of the people here said since the tracklist and cover are bad, the album is going to suck. also there are some people who aren't fanboys and like to voice their opinion on the tracks and cover art. its not their fault you're a raving fanboy who worships the ground cob steps on.

[Chairman Kaga]

i can barely even see the reaper in the picture.

[Hellhounds On My Trail]

Originally Posted by sean hughes

dunno if any one has allready posted it but according to www.play.com this is the blooddrunk album art http://images.play.com/covers/4929625x.jpg

Thanks for that, the cover is fucking awsome!

[Kritic]

Originally Posted by Enemy242

i'm pretty sure not many of the people here said since the tracklist and cover are bad, the album is going to suck. also there are some people who aren't fanboys and like to voice their opinion on the tracks and cover art. its not their fault you're a raving fanboy who worships the ground cob steps on.

COB isn't even one of my favorite bands smartass. Yes, people constantly trash the tracklist and I suppose I was out of line bringing opinions on the cover art into it. There should be a new section on this forum where people can judge an album before they've even heard it. People have too much spare time, I guess.