My expectations of the upcoming album: New, different, better than AYDY, not as good as old school COB but at the same time hard to relate to because of how different, not necessarily in a bad or good way.
I may still like the old COB more as always, but I'm starting to like things in this new stuff a lot that are better in ways to the old COB, so it's becoming harder to say the new stuff is worse, now i feel like it's different.
What I think of the album till now: Exceeded my expectations already although I haven't heard or seen enough to fully judge of course. The song Banned from Heaven in particular is mostly responsible for this. This may have to be one of COB's best tracks, and by that I am shocked to say this but I mean out of all the COB songs to date. Amazing riffs and melodies, especially harmonizing guitar/guitar and guitar/keyboards, and most of all they feel like the fit better in the song than many other old school COB stuff. One other huge thing I am impressed with is they lyrics too, I have always been a fan of Alexi's lyrics in the past no matter how much effort he claims to have put in them, but in Banned From Heaven there is without doubt a huge improvement. The solo's are fucking perfect as well, and very appropriate. I don't know if I am right but I have a feeling the boys put a good deal of effort in this track and it shows really well.
Bloodrunk the song I think in general is good, not exceeding my expectations or letting me down EXCEPT for that little talking bit in the beginning, I REALLY fucking hated that and I really hope it's the last we hear of it. The vid for it however, is without doubt the best music video by COB so far...After seeing the vid for Are You Dead Yet I really hoped they would never try to attempt to make another vid with anything more than just simply them playing, but after seeing this I again see that new side of COB where the vid is much more meaningful but without going down a whole artistic visionary bullshit thing. Perfect from the fucked up scenes to the way Alexi looks at the camera right when you see something fucked up as if he's saying "That's right, bitch" lol. It's like the kick ass carefree vibe is still there, except more mature and solid but not too much so that they become some sort of Industrial band. I am really excited to see more new stuff soon!
), Blooddrunk radio stream and BFH MySpace quality, and also they are quite different. I deon't know why but I expect Hellhouns to begin really fast and aggressive, and I really hope it does, 
So far I'm digging the album quite a lot.
