New Release Information uu March CHILDREN OF BODOM Release Date Pre-Order Start Hexed uu 08/03/2019 uu 07/12/2018 uu Digi includes 3 bonus tracks! uu 07.12. digital Single “Under Grass And Clover” uu 01.02. digital Single “This Road” uu 01.03. digital Single “Platitudes And Barren Words” uu advertising in many important music magazines JAN/FEB 2019 Price Code: CD03 uu album reviews, interviews in all important Metal magazines NB 4043-0 CD-Digi in Europe’s JAN/FEB 2019 issues uu song placements in European magazine compilations uu spotify playlists in all European territories uu instore decoration: flyers, poster A1 uu Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google+ organic promotion uu Facebook ads and promoted posts + Google ads in both the search and Price Code: CD04 display networks, bing ads and gmail ads NB 4043-2 CD uu Banner advertising on more than 60 most important Metal & Rock websites all over Europe uu additional booked ads on Metal Hammer Germany and UK, and in the Fixion network (mainly Blabbermouth) uu video and pre-roll ads on You tube Price Code: LP15 uu ad campaigns on iPhones for iTunes and Google Play for Androids uu NB 4043-1 LP banners, featured items at the shop, header images on nuclearblast.de and nuclearblast.com uu features and banners in newsletters, as well as special mailings to targeted audiences in support of the release and I still listen to. And those lyrics, I’ve always been into this witchy stuff and the different goddesses of the underworld. I’d been reading about Hecate a lot and before I knew it, I just started to write a Price Code: LP20 CHILDREN OF BODOM song about it. But it’s a fictional story of two people trying to ask for help from Hecate and she helps NB 4043-4 PIC-LP them. They keep fucking it up and then eventually she gets pissed-off and you do not want to get that chick pissed-off.” RELEASE THEIR TENTH As usual, and as can be heard in this very much hit-ready song, keyboardist Janne Wirman is a big part of the Bodom sound. Laiho agrees, “Yes, he’s played a big part of every single album, but this time this might seem even more prominent only because of the sounds that he uses. Because the funny thing ALBUM “HEXED”! is that on, let’s say, ‘I Worship Chaos’ or ‘Halo of Blood’, the keyboards were there all the time, but you might not even know that they’re there because he’s doubling my guitars with some insane, super-low Formed in Espoo, Finland in 1993 originally under the moniker Inearthed, CHILDREN OF BODOM had octave sound that doesn’t really stick out. So maybe he pops out more on this album, and I guess he Territory: World-Asia an extraordinary start to their career. Their ‘90s take off was so impressive that many new metal bands has more of a main role in a lot of parts of the songs.” still look up to it today – almost all of their albums earned platinum or gold status in Finland and over Underscoring their overall vision is the hard and modern production of longtime sound-shaper Mikko uu the past twenty five years they‘ve become regulars on some of the world‘s biggest stages. 2019 beckons Karmilla, who Laiho can’t praise enough. Tracklists: in a new era for a revitalized and bloodthirsty Hate Crew, who will present their 10th studio album In an album packed full of killer tracks, “Under Grass and Clover” - once more, a song blessed with DIGI: »Hexed« on March 8th. melodies that evoke images of both ‘70s prog and ‘80s pop metal - has been picked out for extra 01. This Road It’s been three years since the release of »I Worship Chaos« and Bodom have taken time out around attention by Alexi. 02. Under Grass And Clover touring to carefully develop this new work, which packs a hell of a punch. History tells us that having A curious addition to the album, says Alexi, is a twisted second go at an old Bodom song. “We 03. Glass Houses an extensive time frame to work on a project can often result in procrastination and loss of focus – but re-recorded a song called “Knuckleduster” that was originally on the ‘Trashed, Lost and Strungout’ EP 04. Hecate’s Nightmare with »Hexed« the reverse has manifest in this 11 track, impressively stripped back melo-death, rock- that came out in 2004, and we all thought that it was a great song. It was kind of overlooked and we n-roll-rampage. just figured that we needed to do it again - it needed to be heard again. But I had no idea what I sang 05. Kick In A Spleen “This road’s gonna kill me,” exhorts shredder extraordinaire Alexi Laiho on the album’s opening track on that song; like no frigging idea except for the chorus. So I had to rewrite the lyrics and I had to… 06. Platitudes And Barren Words “The Road” – paying homage to the determined decades which the guys have spent slogging it out well at least I tried to write ‘em so that they would sound kind of like the original did. As for the lyrics, 07. Hexed on the tarmac, undoubtedly one of the toughest aspects to a musician’s career. Alexi opens up on this: it’s just another vent about how I don’t like somebody.” 08. Relapse (The Nature Of My Crime) “…I’ve been living on the road for over 20 years, and I’m sure that every single touring musician would “Knuckleduster” is delivered with Alexi’s typical throat-shredding vocal style, but look out for a slight 09. Say Never Look Back agree that at some point it just becomes a blur and you don’t even know what the hell’s going on. You variant within a gem of a track called “Platitudes and Barren Words”: “My voice, obviously, I’m not 10. Soon Departed feel like it’s going to kill you, but you keep doing it no matter what. It’s kind of a drug because you can’t doing clean vocals,” muses Laiho, “and I won’t -not with this fucking band, like never - that I can prom- stop. I can’t. I’m going to do it as long as I live—there’s no other way.” ise you. But that punk rock thing in that song, even though I am adding a bit of melody, it’s still more 11. Knuckleduster Musically, “The Road” quickly betrays the band’s increasingly sophisticated approach to melody, screaming than singing. Call it punk rock, but it’s maybe more Alice Cooper meets death metal.” Bonus: evoking shades of Rush in the ‘80s. A material change for the better on »Hexed« is the addition of axeman Daniel Freyberg (ex-Naildown 12. I Worship Chaos (live) “I’ll take that as a compliment,” laughs Laiho, at that assessment. “People have said that the album is and ex-Norther) to the band. 13. Morrigan (live) generally catchier. So, I started thinking about that, perhaps the song structures are easier to grasp on »Hexed« is a high-energy, up-tempo record seething with new life but also all of the Children of Bodom 14. Knuckleduster (remix) initial listen. But there’s some crazy shit in there, almost progressive or at least technical. But you are trademarks that millions of fans around the world have grown to appreciate. Their mix of melo-death right, there are certain melodies across the album that could have come from jazz songs, although meets blackened thrash with a neo-classical twist, and piercing Derek Sherinian-intense keyboards LP (33 RPM): they’re completely metal with us, of course (laughs). “ peppered with Alexi’s venomous vocal bile, is what makes a Bodom spread so engaging. And it also Side A Another highlight to »Hexed« is “Hecate’s Nightmare”, an almost gothic outlier on what is for all intents explains why the Hate Crew continues to wow crowds across the globe, their reputation continues to 01. This Road and purposes a traditional all-guns-blazing Children of Bodom blowout. grow as a fearsome live act with incredible technical proficiency. Stronger than ever and evidently “That’s a lot of people’s favourite song actually”, notes Alexi, “with that creepy music box opening thrilled to be in such great health, »Hexed« is beckoning Children of Bodom into a new era of world 02. Under Grass And Clover keyboard thing. But then it builds up and it’s a really catchy song. Just talking about the chorus itself, domination. 03. Glass Houses I mean it totally could have been an ‘80s Ozzy Osbourne song. That’s the sort of stuff I grew up with 04. Hecate’s Nightmare 05. Kick In A Spleen 06. Platitudes And Barren Words ALSO AVAILABLE: (World) LINE UP: Side B 01. Hexed Price Code: CD05 Price Code: CD01 Alexi Laiho - guitar and vocals 02. Relapse (The Nature Of My Crime) Janne Wirman - keyboards 03. Say Never Look Back NB 2953-2 CD NB 3503-0 Digi+DVD Daniel Freyberg - guitar 04. Soon Departed Henkka Blacksmith - bass guitar 05. Knuckleduster Jaska Raatikainen - drums CD: 01. This Road 02. Under Grass And Clover Halo Of Blood I Worship Chaos TOUR: 03. Glass Houses Price Code: CD04 Price Code: LP03 04. Hecate’s Nightmare 13. - 16.06. A Nickelsdorf - Nova Rock 05. Kick In A Spleen NB NB 3503-2 CD NB 3503-1 LP 21.06.