So nothing new again, except that Scream for Silence is another song with the Are You Dead Yet? theme.
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sleeper666
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live chat session with Alexi, May 28th
http://www.metalsucks.net/2013/05/2...children-of-bodoms-alexi-laiho-on-metalsucks/
"Well be hosting a very special event next Tuesday, May 28th: a livechat with Alexi Laiho, right here on MetalSucks! This is your chance to ask the Children of Bodom vocalist/guitarist anything youve ever wanted to know, be it about CoBs lyrics, his guitar technique, dirt on the bands new album Halo of Blood, or his favorite kind of vodka. Laiho will be on premises at the MetalSucks Mansion and answering your questions live as they come in.
The livechat kicks off at 6pm EDT / 3pm PDT and will last for one hour, longer if he feels like it."
http://www.metalsucks.net/2013/05/2...children-of-bodoms-alexi-laiho-on-metalsucks/
"Well be hosting a very special event next Tuesday, May 28th: a livechat with Alexi Laiho, right here on MetalSucks! This is your chance to ask the Children of Bodom vocalist/guitarist anything youve ever wanted to know, be it about CoBs lyrics, his guitar technique, dirt on the bands new album Halo of Blood, or his favorite kind of vodka. Laiho will be on premises at the MetalSucks Mansion and answering your questions live as they come in.
The livechat kicks off at 6pm EDT / 3pm PDT and will last for one hour, longer if he feels like it."
That doesn't mean it has to be a bad song in terms of lyrics. I hope..
Maybe SFS and Damaged Beyond Reapair are the ones with the AYDY theme, then there's the sad one, HOB, the one who talk about deaths, etc.
I just told you Scream for Silence has basically the same theme as AYDY based on what Alexi said in the interview. Read it under the title Halo of Booze on the scanned paper a few posts up. It's the same story in the song as in the song AYDY, same theme. I just stated it, I don't have an opinion over it. AYDY is a great song anyway (apart from the chorus sounding wrong in the studio version - the keyboard should be way up and the vocals similar to HoB.)
sleeper666
MetalMutha
CHILDREN OF BODOM The Chaos Whispers Violence
Posted on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 17:18:44 EST
By Aaron Small
Halo Of Blood, the eighth studio album from Finlands CHILDREN OF BODOM which is scheduled for release on June 7th in Europe, June 10th in The UK, and June 11th in North America via Nuclear Blast was recorded a little bit differently than its predecessors. The drums were done at Petrax Studios in Hollola, but the rest of the music and vocals were laid down at the bands rehearsal room, dubbed Danger Johnny Studios, in Helsinki.
We recorded the drums at Petrax Studios, where we recorded the whole Blooddrunk album, just to get the proper sound, revealed Bodom vocalist/guitarist Alexi Laiho. We just figured that since we had the big rehearsal pad, we built a studio in there for demos and stuff, so we might as well record the rest of the shit in there. It worked out pretty well, it was a good session and everything went smoothly. Its a lot more affordable that way too. Yeah exactly, it saves you a lot of money. And you dont have to worry about schedules, cause when you book the studio you have to be done by this date. In that way, it was a lot better.
Alexi likes to record from 6pm to 8am, perhaps the band should be called Vampires Of Bodom instead? Yeah, laughs the frontman. Thats how I record my vocals though, not the guitars. The schedule just kind of flipped when (producer) Peter (Tagtgren HYPOCRISY, PAIN) came to town. I cant record vocals in the morning or afternoon; I just cant get that right feeling cause Im a night person. So we ended up working the whole night, just doing vocals; I was writing lyrics in between, drink a couple of beers and try to keep the mood up. To me, it was perfect! And Peter was totally down with the schedule.
In addition to producing Alexis vocals, Peter was initially supposed to produce Janne Warmans keyboards as well, but there was no time for that. Peter had to go to The UK to do some press shit or something like that. So we only had ten days for the vocals. When asked, how many vocal takes were you averaging per song? Alexi replies, It really differs man. Some of the stuff, I would actually nail it on the first take; say the whole verse or something like that. But others, certain spots maybe timing-wise or certain notes are hard to hit, so that needed a couple more takes. But Im usually pretty fast once I get it going. Its just that I need to take kind of a break after Im done with a song, just to give my throat a rest.
Peter Tagtgren is a big name in the metal community, but hes not the only well-known figure associated with Halo Of Blood. Jeff Waters from ANNIHILATOR (pictured below with Alexi) ended up playing a couple of solos on one of the cover songs, which is Cruel Summer by BANANARAMA; itll be funny thats for sure. Where and when will that be released? Im not sure actually. It was just mixed; it was the last one. Itll probably be a bonus track on a digipack or vinyl. Or maybe well just put it out on our website. I dont know yet, but itll definitely come out though.
The deluxe edition and iTunes version of Halo Of Blood both feature a cover of ROXETTEs Sleeping In My Car, Alexi discusses the songs makeover. We just dressed it up in metal. Its a very rock n roll version that we made, but you can also hear that its Children Of Bodom doing it. We added keyboards to it, and obviously my vocals they are what they are so they sound like COB. Just rad guitar things, and we fucked around with the arrangement a little bit; I think its a cool cover, one of my favourites.
Children Of Bodom also recorded a cover song chosen by the reader s of Japanese metal magazine Burrn!. Yeah, Burrn! magazine wanted to do a thing where the readers would vote on which cover (song) we should do for the next album. They gave us a list of like 50 different songs, there was some crazy shit in there! Some weird Japanese bands that we had never even heard of before, but LOUDNESS seemed to make sense the most I guess. Crazy Night is a killer song anyway, and it was fun to cover too; its going to be on the Japanese edition.
Dead Mans Hand On You really stands apart from the rest of the songs on Halo Of Blood, simply because its tempo is so slow. It just kind of happened. I came up with the main riff, the main theme; that was a little faster at first but then I slowed it down, recalls Alexi. I figured since its slow already, its got that mellow vibe to it, and Janne came up with the idea to play a grand piano on top of it. Thats how the whole thing started. We had never done anything like that before; it was definitely a challenge to make it sound like us and make it sound dark. When you play a song that slow, its really easy to sound like a god damn moron! Its really easy to fuck up; you know what Im saying. Especially for a band like Children Of Bodom, who obviously play fast stuff all the time; but I think we pull it off pretty good. Its definitely one of my favourite tracks on the record.
In Dead Mans Hand On You, a figure by the name of Mother Kali is referred to several times. Kali is a Hindu Goddess of the Underworld. Its like a mythology thing really. I remember way back in the day, IMPALED NAZARENE had a song about her, and I was always wondering what the fuck is the deal with this? So I looked it up, and a friend of mine showed me a lot of stuff about her. It was fascinating, so I figured I might as well write a song about her.
Ten songs comprise Halo Of Blood, yet only six sets of lyrics are printed inside the CD booklet and none of the tracks are instrumental. Alexi tries to explain why the words to: Waste Of Skin, Bodom Blue Moon (The Second Coming), Damaged Beyond Repair, and One Bottle And A Knee Deep were omitted. I dont know, I just thought the ones that we are going to print are the strongest lyrics, and thats why I wanted to put them out. I always had issues with releasing the lyrics; I dont know why. Theyre going to be out there anyways. But well probably put them on the website later on.
One particularly standout lyric appears in Your Days Are Numbered, that being, Watch the sun going down like the whore that you are. After enjoying a good chuckle, Alexi confesses, well, the song is just dedicated to somebody I dont like very much; lets just put it that way.
Going back to 2011s Relentless, Reckless Forever - that was the first COB album not to feature a song with the word Bodom in the title. However, tradition has been restored on Halo Of Blood with Bodom Blue Moon. Yes, with Relentless I fucked it up. I mean, I just forgot. Somebody pointed that out, one of the guys said, Dude, wheres the Bodom song? Son of a bitch! So now theres actually two: Bodom Blue Moon and also the last track, One Bottle And A Knee Deep. Its a story of some dude getting fucked up at Lake Bodom, and then bad shit starts to happen. Its like a class B horror story. So its back. There has to be at least one; I was so bummed out that I forgot about it, I cant believe I did.
An audio sample of Woody Harrelson, lifted from Oliver Stones 1994 film Natural Born Killers, can be heard at the beginning of One Bottle And A Knee Deep. Its a really cool intro. Those intros that we have on the album or any of the albums for that matter they dont necessarily have anything to do with the lyrical content of the song. Its just an intro to build up the tension before the song kicks in. If you use em right, its a pretty powerful tool to make the beginning of the song stronger.
Transference is the first single from Halo Of Blood; both a lyric video and proper promotional clip, that was filmed in Poland (and can be viewed below) have been issued. We just figured Transference was perfect for a video cause its a short song and its very simple structure wise; and its pretty catchy as well, the chorus and stuff. Plus it really sounds like Children Of Bodom. Alexi has been quoted as saying that Transference gives him chills, a statement which he kindly elaborates on exclusively for BraveWords.com. When I was doing the vocals, it was like five oclock in the morning and I was pretty hammered I guess. I kept listening to the song; it was looping over and over I dont know, I got this super evil vibe from that song; and I thought it was the coolest thing ever! I really felt something. Im not sure if it was the alcohol speaking or the music, but right after that I went to the singing booth and nailed the vocals. Its funny how it works sometimes.
Not only is Halo Of Blood the album title, its also the name of the second song. I told our bass player (Henkka Blacksmith) about the title and he thought it was so cool. It is a strong title and its a strong song, we all agreed its good enough to carry the whole album. Thats about it, pretty much all I got.
Another really strong song title is Waste Of Skin which begins the album on a really forceful note. So who exactly is a waste of skin? In that case, that would be me sir. Its just one of the topics. I get to vent, complete self-loathing. Im not as crazy as I used to be. I remember back in the day, I would wake up with a fucking massive hangover and a black eye, and a fucking broken arm or something like that. Thats when you dont exactly feel really good about yourself. But its a great source of inspiration, those kinds of days. I try not to break shit anymore; but shitty feelings, theyre always going to be there anyways, so Im not worried about running out of them. Does the nickname Wild Child not apply anymore? Ill leave that up to everybody else. Seriously though, Im still the same dude; I just dont drink as excessively. I still drink, but not as crazy as I used to cause that was just fucking ridiculous, how much I was pounding booze.
Its rather ironic that the Halo Of Blood artwork is a winter scene, yet its being released in June, just as summer starts to heat up. Right, its like hello from Finland motherfuckers. Thats the way we roll. But no really, its a funny thing. We started working on the artwork even before any of the songs were written; that was last summer. It doesnt really matter what time of the year it is, us being from Finland, its always winter in our heads I guess; you understand, youre Canadian.
In one of the promo shots for Halo Of Blood, Alexi is wearing a MISFITS shirt, has Children Of Bodom ever considered covering a Misfits song? Actually yeah, its a great idea. I think next time around we might actually do that. Im not sure which song yet, but well see. I like the 80s stuff the best; those are the first songs that I heard when I was a kid. My sister would play The Misfits I dont even know what the song was called but I thought it sounded super-cool. Some of their videos are pretty rad too, cool as hell. A lot of other bands have covered Misfits songs; undoubtedly METALLICAs version of Die Die My Darling is the most famous. Yeah, we would have to make sure who has covered what, and if its too much of a cliché. But Im not worried about that, well just get in the studio and do it our way, have fun.
Touring in support of Halo Of Blood begins June 7th in the bands native Finland, with shows booked until the end of November. Yeah, Decembers off and then we hit the road again in January, maybe South America. Basically we have a year and a half planned for non-stop touring. But dude, I cant wait. I love that shit!
As far as which new material from Halo Of Blood will be aired live, fans can expect to hear Transference, and Alexi says, I definitely want to play the title track. Itd be so cool to have Dead Mans Hand On You on the set list cause its so different and so slow. It would give a good fucking dynamic to the whole live set. It would be a really cool song to play live if we can pull it off; it needs a lot of practice.
Posted on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 17:18:44 EST
By Aaron Small
Halo Of Blood, the eighth studio album from Finlands CHILDREN OF BODOM which is scheduled for release on June 7th in Europe, June 10th in The UK, and June 11th in North America via Nuclear Blast was recorded a little bit differently than its predecessors. The drums were done at Petrax Studios in Hollola, but the rest of the music and vocals were laid down at the bands rehearsal room, dubbed Danger Johnny Studios, in Helsinki.
We recorded the drums at Petrax Studios, where we recorded the whole Blooddrunk album, just to get the proper sound, revealed Bodom vocalist/guitarist Alexi Laiho. We just figured that since we had the big rehearsal pad, we built a studio in there for demos and stuff, so we might as well record the rest of the shit in there. It worked out pretty well, it was a good session and everything went smoothly. Its a lot more affordable that way too. Yeah exactly, it saves you a lot of money. And you dont have to worry about schedules, cause when you book the studio you have to be done by this date. In that way, it was a lot better.
Alexi likes to record from 6pm to 8am, perhaps the band should be called Vampires Of Bodom instead? Yeah, laughs the frontman. Thats how I record my vocals though, not the guitars. The schedule just kind of flipped when (producer) Peter (Tagtgren HYPOCRISY, PAIN) came to town. I cant record vocals in the morning or afternoon; I just cant get that right feeling cause Im a night person. So we ended up working the whole night, just doing vocals; I was writing lyrics in between, drink a couple of beers and try to keep the mood up. To me, it was perfect! And Peter was totally down with the schedule.
In addition to producing Alexis vocals, Peter was initially supposed to produce Janne Warmans keyboards as well, but there was no time for that. Peter had to go to The UK to do some press shit or something like that. So we only had ten days for the vocals. When asked, how many vocal takes were you averaging per song? Alexi replies, It really differs man. Some of the stuff, I would actually nail it on the first take; say the whole verse or something like that. But others, certain spots maybe timing-wise or certain notes are hard to hit, so that needed a couple more takes. But Im usually pretty fast once I get it going. Its just that I need to take kind of a break after Im done with a song, just to give my throat a rest.
Peter Tagtgren is a big name in the metal community, but hes not the only well-known figure associated with Halo Of Blood. Jeff Waters from ANNIHILATOR (pictured below with Alexi) ended up playing a couple of solos on one of the cover songs, which is Cruel Summer by BANANARAMA; itll be funny thats for sure. Where and when will that be released? Im not sure actually. It was just mixed; it was the last one. Itll probably be a bonus track on a digipack or vinyl. Or maybe well just put it out on our website. I dont know yet, but itll definitely come out though.
The deluxe edition and iTunes version of Halo Of Blood both feature a cover of ROXETTEs Sleeping In My Car, Alexi discusses the songs makeover. We just dressed it up in metal. Its a very rock n roll version that we made, but you can also hear that its Children Of Bodom doing it. We added keyboards to it, and obviously my vocals they are what they are so they sound like COB. Just rad guitar things, and we fucked around with the arrangement a little bit; I think its a cool cover, one of my favourites.
Children Of Bodom also recorded a cover song chosen by the reader s of Japanese metal magazine Burrn!. Yeah, Burrn! magazine wanted to do a thing where the readers would vote on which cover (song) we should do for the next album. They gave us a list of like 50 different songs, there was some crazy shit in there! Some weird Japanese bands that we had never even heard of before, but LOUDNESS seemed to make sense the most I guess. Crazy Night is a killer song anyway, and it was fun to cover too; its going to be on the Japanese edition.
Dead Mans Hand On You really stands apart from the rest of the songs on Halo Of Blood, simply because its tempo is so slow. It just kind of happened. I came up with the main riff, the main theme; that was a little faster at first but then I slowed it down, recalls Alexi. I figured since its slow already, its got that mellow vibe to it, and Janne came up with the idea to play a grand piano on top of it. Thats how the whole thing started. We had never done anything like that before; it was definitely a challenge to make it sound like us and make it sound dark. When you play a song that slow, its really easy to sound like a god damn moron! Its really easy to fuck up; you know what Im saying. Especially for a band like Children Of Bodom, who obviously play fast stuff all the time; but I think we pull it off pretty good. Its definitely one of my favourite tracks on the record.
In Dead Mans Hand On You, a figure by the name of Mother Kali is referred to several times. Kali is a Hindu Goddess of the Underworld. Its like a mythology thing really. I remember way back in the day, IMPALED NAZARENE had a song about her, and I was always wondering what the fuck is the deal with this? So I looked it up, and a friend of mine showed me a lot of stuff about her. It was fascinating, so I figured I might as well write a song about her.
Ten songs comprise Halo Of Blood, yet only six sets of lyrics are printed inside the CD booklet and none of the tracks are instrumental. Alexi tries to explain why the words to: Waste Of Skin, Bodom Blue Moon (The Second Coming), Damaged Beyond Repair, and One Bottle And A Knee Deep were omitted. I dont know, I just thought the ones that we are going to print are the strongest lyrics, and thats why I wanted to put them out. I always had issues with releasing the lyrics; I dont know why. Theyre going to be out there anyways. But well probably put them on the website later on.
One particularly standout lyric appears in Your Days Are Numbered, that being, Watch the sun going down like the whore that you are. After enjoying a good chuckle, Alexi confesses, well, the song is just dedicated to somebody I dont like very much; lets just put it that way.
Going back to 2011s Relentless, Reckless Forever - that was the first COB album not to feature a song with the word Bodom in the title. However, tradition has been restored on Halo Of Blood with Bodom Blue Moon. Yes, with Relentless I fucked it up. I mean, I just forgot. Somebody pointed that out, one of the guys said, Dude, wheres the Bodom song? Son of a bitch! So now theres actually two: Bodom Blue Moon and also the last track, One Bottle And A Knee Deep. Its a story of some dude getting fucked up at Lake Bodom, and then bad shit starts to happen. Its like a class B horror story. So its back. There has to be at least one; I was so bummed out that I forgot about it, I cant believe I did.
An audio sample of Woody Harrelson, lifted from Oliver Stones 1994 film Natural Born Killers, can be heard at the beginning of One Bottle And A Knee Deep. Its a really cool intro. Those intros that we have on the album or any of the albums for that matter they dont necessarily have anything to do with the lyrical content of the song. Its just an intro to build up the tension before the song kicks in. If you use em right, its a pretty powerful tool to make the beginning of the song stronger.
Transference is the first single from Halo Of Blood; both a lyric video and proper promotional clip, that was filmed in Poland (and can be viewed below) have been issued. We just figured Transference was perfect for a video cause its a short song and its very simple structure wise; and its pretty catchy as well, the chorus and stuff. Plus it really sounds like Children Of Bodom. Alexi has been quoted as saying that Transference gives him chills, a statement which he kindly elaborates on exclusively for BraveWords.com. When I was doing the vocals, it was like five oclock in the morning and I was pretty hammered I guess. I kept listening to the song; it was looping over and over I dont know, I got this super evil vibe from that song; and I thought it was the coolest thing ever! I really felt something. Im not sure if it was the alcohol speaking or the music, but right after that I went to the singing booth and nailed the vocals. Its funny how it works sometimes.
Not only is Halo Of Blood the album title, its also the name of the second song. I told our bass player (Henkka Blacksmith) about the title and he thought it was so cool. It is a strong title and its a strong song, we all agreed its good enough to carry the whole album. Thats about it, pretty much all I got.
Another really strong song title is Waste Of Skin which begins the album on a really forceful note. So who exactly is a waste of skin? In that case, that would be me sir. Its just one of the topics. I get to vent, complete self-loathing. Im not as crazy as I used to be. I remember back in the day, I would wake up with a fucking massive hangover and a black eye, and a fucking broken arm or something like that. Thats when you dont exactly feel really good about yourself. But its a great source of inspiration, those kinds of days. I try not to break shit anymore; but shitty feelings, theyre always going to be there anyways, so Im not worried about running out of them. Does the nickname Wild Child not apply anymore? Ill leave that up to everybody else. Seriously though, Im still the same dude; I just dont drink as excessively. I still drink, but not as crazy as I used to cause that was just fucking ridiculous, how much I was pounding booze.
Its rather ironic that the Halo Of Blood artwork is a winter scene, yet its being released in June, just as summer starts to heat up. Right, its like hello from Finland motherfuckers. Thats the way we roll. But no really, its a funny thing. We started working on the artwork even before any of the songs were written; that was last summer. It doesnt really matter what time of the year it is, us being from Finland, its always winter in our heads I guess; you understand, youre Canadian.
In one of the promo shots for Halo Of Blood, Alexi is wearing a MISFITS shirt, has Children Of Bodom ever considered covering a Misfits song? Actually yeah, its a great idea. I think next time around we might actually do that. Im not sure which song yet, but well see. I like the 80s stuff the best; those are the first songs that I heard when I was a kid. My sister would play The Misfits I dont even know what the song was called but I thought it sounded super-cool. Some of their videos are pretty rad too, cool as hell. A lot of other bands have covered Misfits songs; undoubtedly METALLICAs version of Die Die My Darling is the most famous. Yeah, we would have to make sure who has covered what, and if its too much of a cliché. But Im not worried about that, well just get in the studio and do it our way, have fun.
Touring in support of Halo Of Blood begins June 7th in the bands native Finland, with shows booked until the end of November. Yeah, Decembers off and then we hit the road again in January, maybe South America. Basically we have a year and a half planned for non-stop touring. But dude, I cant wait. I love that shit!
As far as which new material from Halo Of Blood will be aired live, fans can expect to hear Transference, and Alexi says, I definitely want to play the title track. Itd be so cool to have Dead Mans Hand On You on the set list cause its so different and so slow. It would give a good fucking dynamic to the whole live set. It would be a really cool song to play live if we can pull it off; it needs a lot of practice.
Mother Kali the Hindu Goddess of underworld an inspiration to Dead Man's Hand On You... Then it's also inspired by the event/saying of the cards, dead man's hand... and also Alexi's dead friend... I forgot whether this song or HoB was dedicated to the Lordi drummer?
Also it's pretty exciting the last song, One Bottle and a Knee Deep is about Lake Bodom stuff, too... I think a Bodom album needs at least two songs to be directly about that mythology... Let's see how it sounds like.
So, the movie samples are as intros to songs Halo of Blood, The Days Are Numbered and One Bottle and a Knee Deep.
Also it's pretty exciting the last song, One Bottle and a Knee Deep is about Lake Bodom stuff, too... I think a Bodom album needs at least two songs to be directly about that mythology... Let's see how it sounds like.
So, the movie samples are as intros to songs Halo of Blood, The Days Are Numbered and One Bottle and a Knee Deep.
sleeper666
MetalMutha
So, Roope sang a part in the Roxette song? That makes me want to listen to that at least once. Thank you for linking it, Sany.
Your welcome, sounds also interesting to me
Here a new from Austria:
http://www.stormbringer.at/interviews.php?id=1378
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Metalsucks chatlog
http://www.metalsucks.net/2013/05/28/right-now-livechat-with-children-of-bodoms-alexi-laiho/
Alexi does indeed drink Blue Moon.
http://www.metalsucks.net/2013/05/28/right-now-livechat-with-children-of-bodoms-alexi-laiho/
Alexi does indeed drink Blue Moon.
That psychotic stripper lady actually got to Alexi and Alexi understood she'd been tricked by some facebook fake Laiho, and he actually offered to hang out for consolation and have a drink cos she'd spent money traveling, but she just kept shouting 'fuck you' and got thrown away by security, haha. This story was covered some years ago.
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been where, done what?
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Rather academic now, but here's Track by track part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BY4hIpTlB5A#!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BY4hIpTlB5A#!
