{"id":27442,"date":"2023-12-21T12:04:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T12:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alliedforces.eu\/?p=27442"},"modified":"2023-12-21T12:04:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T12:04:52","slug":"children-of-bodom-a-chapter-called-children-of-bodom-universal-music-finland-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliedforces.eu\/en\/children-of-bodom-a-chapter-called-children-of-bodom-universal-music-finland-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Children Of Bodom: A Chapter Called Children Of Bodom (Universal Music Finland, 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is tremendously painful to receive with joy the release of an album like <strong><em>A Chapter Called Children Of Bodom<\/em><\/strong>, a great live album that includes the last concert that <strong>Children Of Bodom<\/strong> would offer at the Helsinki Ice Hall before they splitted up in 2019. It is incredible that a band as in shape as the one led by the sadly deceased <strong>Alexi Laiho<\/strong> since its formation in 1993 ended so abruptly and almost without warning, but that&#8217;s how these things work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The line-up of the album is very little different from their first line-up when they changed their name from <strong>Inearthed <\/strong>to <strong>Children Of Bodom<\/strong>. Only guitarist <strong>Alexander Kuoppala<\/strong> -who left the band in 2003 and was replaced by <strong>Roope Latvala<\/strong> in 2004- has been the only member who during the two decades of <strong>Children Of Bodom<\/strong>&#8216;s life who has not been present in each of the stages through which the quintet had gone by. <strong>Daniel Freyberg<\/strong>, who later shared the band again with <strong>Laiho <\/strong>in <strong>Bodom After Midnight<\/strong>, was in charge of replacing <strong>Roope Latvala<\/strong> after his departure in 2015. <strong>Freyberg <\/strong>was only able to make his mark on the band&#8217;s last studio album, <strong><em>Hexed<\/em><\/strong>, something that until the release of <strong><em>A Chapter Called Children Of Bodom<\/em><\/strong> it had not changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for the album itself, we could say that the selection of songs truly collects the best that <strong>Children Of Bodom <\/strong>managed to deliver in their twenty years of life, giving special emphasis to their acclaimed <strong><em>Hate Crew Deathroll<\/em><\/strong> from 2003 and the seminal <strong><em>Follow The Reaper<\/em><\/strong> album released in the year 2000, although the band takes a tour of their entire career, rescuing even some of their least interesting albums such as <strong><em>Relentless Reckless Forever<\/em><\/strong> from 2011 or <strong><em>Blooddrunk <\/em><\/strong>from 2008. Nothing to object in terms of the track list, they are all well distributed and the overall count leaves a very good taste in your mouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Follow The Reaper (Final Show in Helsinki Ice Hall 2019)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KI2OZIMbUhE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If we talk about the performance of its members themselves, I can affirm that all of them manage to offer a much improved version of themselves if we had compared this concert with one from the middle of the previous decade, to name an example. Although <strong>Alexi<\/strong>&#8216;s voice fails to reach its maximum splendor at some moments, the final result is a very notable version of a band that seemed to have studied its end and that may have been prepared very well for this last concert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The journey that begins with <strong><em>Under The Grass Clover<\/em><\/strong> is so sweet that at times one seems to be seeing <strong>Alexi <\/strong>on stage. Their loss is one of the ones I have regretted most in recent years, probably because <strong>Children Of Bodom<\/strong> was one of the first bands of the genre that I heard many years ago and for which I have always felt a very special affection. For that same reason it is very painful for me to listen to the dense riff of <strong><em>In Your Face<\/em><\/strong> without looking back and seeing myself when I was in high school and thought I was the coolest person in school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is worth highlighting some high points of this live album such as <strong><em>Everytime I Die<\/em><\/strong> or the energetic <strong><em>Follow The Reaper<\/em><\/strong>, songs that have accompanied me for so many years and that on this album stand out above the rest. <strong>Laiho <\/strong>and <strong>Freyberg <\/strong>offer here one of the best concerts they have ever done in their career, which is why at certain moments I think that their dissolution was planned and they wanted to leave their mark on the history of the band with a last concert as colossal as the one they <strong><em>A Chapter Called Children Of Bodom<\/em><\/strong> collects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last section of the show is made up of the band&#8217;s greatest classics, from the furious <strong><em>Hate Me!<\/em><\/strong> to the cathartic <strong><em>Downfall<\/em><\/strong>, leaving the anthem <strong><em>Hate Crew Deathroll<\/em><\/strong> and the primal <strong><em>Lake Bodom<\/em><\/strong> as the highlight of a magical and unforgettable evening. Keyboardist <strong>Janne Wirman<\/strong> and drummer <strong>Jaska Raatikainen<\/strong> deserve special mention, without forgetting the ever-present bassist <strong>Henkka Blacksmith<\/strong>. This album closes a very important chapter in the history of metal and in some way closes the circle that <strong>Children Of Bodom<\/strong> began in 1993 with the formation of <strong>Inearthed<\/strong>. It is impossible not to shed a tear when one thinks of the unjust end of <strong>Alexi Laiho<\/strong>, one of the most prolific and unique artists of the genre, but he somehow left part of his spirit in each of us and this album is responsible for reminding us that will always live in our hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"894\" height=\"894\" src=\"https:\/\/alliedforces.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Children-Of-Bodom-Live-2023.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alliedforces.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Children-Of-Bodom-Live-2023.jpg 894w, https:\/\/alliedforces.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Children-Of-Bodom-Live-2023-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alliedforces.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Children-Of-Bodom-Live-2023-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/alliedforces.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Children-Of-Bodom-Live-2023-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 894px) 100vw, 894px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is tremendously painful to receive with joy the release of an album like A&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[774],"tags":[993],"class_list":["post-27442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-children-of-bodom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliedforces.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliedforces.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliedforces.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliedforces.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliedforces.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alliedforces.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliedforces.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliedforces.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliedforces.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliedforces.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}