I think it's funny a band can make six albums, and one happens to like every single song on them. And I mean really like, not just 'this is ok'. However, I'd like to exclude most of the cover songs. I'm not really into them, and they're not really 'bodom', in my opinion anyway.
Blooddrunk (CoB's latest album) has been the most difficult one for me so far. It's somehow bit different from the earlier ones, but it has now grown on me. Especially Done with Everything, Die for Nothing that appears on Guitar Hero 5.
Yau yau!
May 2026 Addendum
I just happened to remember I wrote this post once -- I can't say it aged well. Bodom really did fall off after Are You Dead Yet? (2005), and I did say Blooddrunk (2008) already having been the hardest one for me to like. I did and still do enjoy many of the tracks on that album, though. But then Relentless Reckless Forever (2011), Halo of Blood (2013), and I Worship Chaos (2015) were all actual trash. I still haven't really listened to the album that came to be the band's final one, Hexed (2019), because I had given up on them. Some say they managed to return to form but I have doubts. Hecate's Nightmare does sound a bit like their good old stuff -- if you put it on like 1.25x playback speed.
Children of Bodom broke up in late 2019. Alexi Laiho (lead guitar and vocals) with Daniel Freyberg (rhythm guitar since 2016) formed a new group, Bodom After Midnight. That didn't last too long, though, for Laiho died in December 2020 to health complications at the age of 41. I reckon the rock star lifestyle took its toll finally.
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