CHILDREN OF BODOM

Release Year: 2008
Artist Origin: FIN
Style: dynamic melodic death heavy metal

debut longplay [1997] by melodic heavy/death metal squad spearheads the newborn genre forward with insanely rapid progress - this was recorded by a very young but rebellious crew, which has just passed the demo stage and scored a deal with serious label; youthful energy was first of all backed up by outstanding riffs, intricate keyboard lines and unusually screamy for death metal vocalist - reason is COB were growing within melodic black metal surroundings, quite common at that time Finnish scene; the end result is surprisingly impetuous, spontaneous and really wild record that laid a solid fundament to the rising leaders of the movement; recent British re-issue comes with expanded artwork, liner notes, additional Sepultura Mass Hypnosis cover plus Deadnight Warrior promotional video