I really hope the album will feature some "back to the roots" kinda stuff, like stuff from Hatebreeder, Something Wild, Follow The Reaper kinda stuff..
But will it happen? Most likely not.
I expect something that is like a mix between Blooddrunk and Hate Crew Death Roll. I really hope that it will feature some more keyboard passages though, and it might just happen.
But overall, the most important thing for me is that the "mysterious" feel come back to them, that creepy kinda sound like Hatebreeder, Something Wild. And I hope that the whole Bodom "gimmick" or whatever will play a role in the new album. I liked Blooddrunk, but seriously I miss that "old" Bodom mysterious, creepy, keyboard sound.
It wouldn't be a problem for me if they kept their thrashy main-stream sound, although it's not what I see as the "real" Bodom. I think that Are You Dead Yet? was like, an album where Bodom tried to have main-stream success, and it worked, but somehow discarded the older fans. Now Blooddrunk was like a mix of the thrashier Bodom and the old Bodom, with the keyboards and stuff, like, not returning to the old, but adding parts of the old into the new.
I would really love to see them add that extra keyboard into the songs so they would be kinda keyboard-driven while stay maintain the guitar-driven feel.
As we have seen in Kissing the Shadows and live keyboard vs. guitar battles like War of Razors and Clash of the Booze Brothers, CoB likes to have that Keyboard vs. Guitar driven stuff in there some times. I hope we see a song like that in the new album, it would be interesting to see a new Kissing The Shadows, 10 years after the first.
And yes I agree, definetely stay with Roy and his Scythes on the covers - it's what somehow characterizes Bodom.
I can't wait for the new album! Hell yeah!
