Got the EP (CD digipack), I still like the artwork...it's just fitting. Reading the very last words in the "booklet" made me shake my head...it's still just unbelievable.
"Payback's A Bitch" was one last, but really nice goodbye - I'll so miss that feeling of hearing a new Bodom song the first time. It was always so interesting and surprising, sometimes even irritating, but after a few times hearingt it later it all made sense. And this last song is a wonderful example of that - first time listening is just weird and chaotic, but very interesting and surprising again and again. After hearing it countless times since yesterday I enjoy it a lot - at the moment I like it more than "Paint", but that's probably because it's still new. Both songs show he was far from done musically and we would have gotten a couple more records in the next years/decades...if it wasn't for the fucking alcohol.
Overall I enjoy both those two last songs a lot and it really hurts to never hear that whole album that was about to be written and recorded this year. Alexi was unique and nobody can replace him. As great as he was a guitar player, I will miss him even more as a songwriter. Those 10 COB albums and this EP (to me in this case = EPilogue) will stay with me for my whole life and will always remember me to the times I became a fan in 2007 up until now.
I still have two Sinergy albums left to listen...I somehow forgot about them all those years and just listened to the first one in the last months...it's also nice and has its moments when Alexi really shines through, but it's just not up there with Bodom imo. Furthermore, after all that bullshit with Kim I wasn't in the mood of hearing her voice all the time...also, I don't think like her voice a lot. I'll listen to the other two albums still some time later, but this today is the real end for me.
Better than PTSWB IMO, though PTSWB definitely had a better main riff.
