Artist: | CHILDREN OF BODOM |
Label: | Spinefarm |
Release Year: 2011
Artist Origin: FIN
Style: dynamic melodic heavy death metal
this is probably the most consistent, catchy and chuggingly heavy Children of Bodom release in latest eight years or so, which divides their musical ferocity into smashing numbers and mid tempo groovers, where the band sounds aggressive, somehow nostalgic and quite swinging at the same time; overall it is a blitzkrieg of vicious yet tricky guitar riffs and solos, while vocalist Alexi Laiho changes his throaty shouting approach quite noticeably, wheteher it is for good or for worse; deluxe limited digipak edition comes with bonus DVD, featuring Was It Worth It? promotional video, making of it, few live video clips and more