The EP, Paint The Sky With Blood (out April 23 via Napalm Records), was recorded in Finland back in 2020 and was meant to be the beginning of an exciting new chapter. Their sonic plans were massive – including an EP release in the spring followed by a full-length album later in the year. In 2020, the news was flooded: Led by the extremely talented Alexi Laiho, newly formed supergroup BODOM AFTER MIDNIGHT was about to become the striking successor to legendary metal band CHILDREN OF BODOM. It’s time to let the beast out of the cage one more time as a celebration of Alexi’s music, legacy and the man himself.” – BODOM AFTER MIDNIGHT Needless to say that we are honored and proud to be a part of his very last creative work and unleash it the way he wanted it to.
A year ago, CHILDREN OF BODOM announced the addition of guitarist Daniel Freyberg ( NAILDOWN, NORTHER) to the group's ranks.“ Like ourselves, Alexi was beyond stoked about these songs and anxious to get these out so we are happy that we can fulfill his wish. The trek commenced in Quebec on November 23 and will conclude in Brooklyn on December 19. Just a lot of fucking teenage rage, and that's what it's all about, really." CHILDREN OF BODOM last month embarked on a 21-date North American tour with special guests iconic black metal artist ABBATH, California-based metal act EXMORTUS, and Canada's progressive metallers ONI. It's now something you can actually remember from the first time you listen to it, unlike on 'Something Wild', where you're, like, 'Whoa, what just happened?' There's still some good energy on that album, though. It's just cool riffs, one after another, but most of the songs were kind of broken, structure-wise, as opposed to 'I Worship Chaos', where there's verse-bridge-verse-chorus, you know, an actual structure. At that age, and at that phase of the band, we weren't as worried about song structure. Those early songs still definitely had a lot of feeling in them, a lot of soul. I felt I needed to go out of my way to prove I'm a kickass guitar player. With every song and solo, I felt I had to show everything that I had, it was a lot more about showing off. He said: "When the first album came out, we were just kids, 17 and 18 years old. And that's something I'm really proud of." Laiho echoed those sentiments when he spoke to Metal Blast earlier this year. We still have the same objective we had when we were kids - we wanted to just be as heavy, dark and extreme as possible and we still have that teenage rage kind of thing going on. I feel very proud that we never compromised our sound or wanted to go into a 'lighter' direction. It's been a lot of hard work, but it's made us improve a lot at what we do now, more than what we were doing back in the 'Wild' days. And, obviously, non-stop touring has taught us a pretty fucking lot.
I am thinking instead of playing a whole album, we will play the most obscure tracks." Asked how CHILDREN OF BODOM's sound has evolved since the release of "Something Wild", Laiho told Performer in a 2014 interview: "We have definitely progressed and naturally improved as musicians and songwriters. It will be weird, it will be a trip, but fans will dig it. We might do a mix of our first two albums. 04 - S - Stockholm - Debaser Strand CHILDREN OF BODOM guitarist/vocalist Alexi Laiho told OC Weekly about the upcoming tour: "I don't know yet if we're going to play the whole album or probably just a lot of rare songs from it we never play live. 17 - F - Magny Le Hongre - Disney Le File 7 Mar. 12 - UK - London - o2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire Mar. The month-long trek, dubbed "20 Years Down & Dirty", will consist of the following dates: Mar.
Finnish metallers CHILDREN OF BODOM will perform most of their debut album, "Something Wild", on a European tour early next year to celebrate the record's twentieth anniversary.
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