Children Of Bodom 'Stockholm Knockout Live' album

Stockholm Knockout Live will be the title of this milestone release in COB’s young, yet extensive career. The worldwide release date of this DVD is October 10th, 2006. The release is estimated to contain over 3 hours of nonstop COB action! Containing a live concert, videos, and a rare documentary on the band from past to present; this DVD will be a must for all COB fans and guitar fans all around.

At a time when the rock scene appears to be returning to more traditional values, Children Of Bodom – a young band with a wealth of experience and a ready supply of great songs – are perfectly placed to be one of the acts-with-an-attitude over the next 12 months, and indeed beyond. The Children are the future, it’s official.

IN the same way that the Olympics shifts from country to country, so does the ‘Rock ‘n’Roll Capital Of The World’ forever change it’s town. In the ’80s it was Los Angeles, the Wild West Coast, in the ’90s it was Seattle, City Of Grunge, and now in the Year Of Our Lord 2005, it’s Helsinki.

In fact, it’s Finland in general. A country of just five million inhabitants, a vast percentage of whom appear to be in guitar-heavy bands – bands with the instinctive ability to combine the drama of rock music’s colourful past with the more cutting edge manoeuvres of a fresh millennium. What’s more, these are rock bands who actually look the part – as in long hair, sombre attire, and guitars that are as likely to be Flying V’ed as not.

Enter Children Of Bodom: a five-piece outfit from Espoo in Finland who, since the latter part of the ’90s, have been building a reputation as a genuine market leader. Originally called Inearthed (a fledgling set-up with a series of demos to their name), COB can be as downright brutal as any of the extreme metallers when the situation demands. But what places these guys right at the sharp end of the pack is the way they can suddenly dish up huge swathes of melody & instantly memorable choruses – plus of course a degree of musicianship that has seen vocalist/guitarist Alexi Wildchild Laiho gracing the covers on guitar magazines around the world.

Over the past eight years, Alexi & Co. have recorded & released four full studio albums (‘Something Wild’, 1997; ‘Hatebreeder’, 1999; ‘Follow The Reaper’, 2000; ‘Hate Crew Deathroll’, 2003), plus the live album ‘Tokyo Warhearts’ (1999). At a time when the creation of quality catalogue appears to be happening less & less, COB are not only well ahead of the game, but now poised to unveil Studio Album No. 5 ‘ARE YOU DEAD YET’– a flawless ten-track outing scheduled for October 25th U.S release, featuring the exclusive, never before released cover of the Ramones classic "Somebody Put Something In My Drink"; that is sure to push the Finnish Five to a whole new level of international success, both critically & commercially.

Titled ‘Are You Dead Yet?’ and produced by the band & Mikko Karmila, who also put his stamp on the ‘Hate Crew…’ sessions, eight of the tracks here are brand new (songs such as ‘Living Dead Beat’, ‘Bastards Of Bodom’ and lead single/video ‘In Your Face’), whereas ‘Trashed, Lost & Strungout’ will already be familiar to fans, having initially seen the light of day on the 2004 EP of the same name.

With a video for ‘In Your Face’ having just been filmed with Katapult Productions, the ultra-cool team behind all of the recent Rammstein clips, ‘Are You Dead Yet?’ is certain to attract major media attention on a genuinely global scale – especially as the band’s on-the-road schedule in support of Album Five (including key festival appearances such as the recent Earthshaker event in Germany) already has them fully committed until the Summer of 2006 with a spot a spot on next years Wacken Open Air Festival.

As things stand, Alexi, Jaska Raatikainen (drums), Janne Warmen (keyboards), Henkka Blaksmith(bass) & Roope Latvala (the most acclaimed Finnish guitarist ever) tore up the stages of the the Gates Of Metal Festival in Sweden & the Metalway Festival in Spain this past August; then journied to Australia & Japan (where ‘Hate Crew…’ has now passed the 40,000 mark, pushing catalogue sales worldwide to half a million plus) and borke it down for the fans there as well. The USA is now preparing for their onslaught with a North American Tour spanning the continent in the months of September & October. Children Of Bodom will finish their year with trek back to native Europe in mid December where they will tour until February...

Do you also would like to share your opinion? If so, please register or login here.

Details

Popular Songs

New Songs

Tracklisting

Children Of Bodom - Stockholm Knockout Live