Children Of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet? review
| Band: | Children Of Bodom |
| Album: | Are You Dead Yet? |
| Style: | Extreme power metal |
| Release date: | September 2005 |
01. Living Dead Beat
02. Are You Dead Yet?
03. If You Want Peace... Prepare For War
04. Punch Me I Bleed
05. In Your Face
06. Next In Line
07. Bastards Of Bodom
08. Trashed, Lost & Strungout
09. We're Not Gonna Fall
I'm going to show my incredible foretelling powers here and tell you right from the get-go that there's going to be like a thousand comments from kids aiming right at my neck trying to understand why the hell I gave such a low rating to the best album of the year from the best band of the world: Children Of Bodom? Yeah, sure.
I used to like this band (if you don't believe me, read my "Something Wild" review), but after their third album all went downhill for me and these Finns. I bet someone in the band realized that they were popular now and they decided to turn their sound towards the masses (i.e. kids attending Ozzfest and such).
I can't do anything else rather than ask myself, what happened with this band? Where did the madness, the amazing riffs and the awesome keyboards went? What happened with the neoclassical leads and the fierce shrieks? The only thing I found was bland vocals, lame choruses and unexciting song-writing. Truly disappointing, sure I wish I was dead after hearing this boring album.
Everything in Children Of Bodom is getting old by now, the brainless lyrics and laughable song titles were funny at first, but now they've become unbearable. The Ripper mascot is another thing that I'm tired of, and again, it was funny at first with the different colors for each album, but now the ripper is totally uninteresting and tedious!
In a nutshell, this album does nothing for me, and if it does for you, you're a trend-victim, Children Of Bodom is an over-hyped, overrated act by all means! If you like Finnish extreme metal go grab the new Norther or new Kalmah instead. Phew, that was almost therapeutic, now kids, fire away, shoot me with all you can, I can take it. And just to add some fuel to the fire, Children Of Bodom sucks!
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| Xtreme Jax Psycroptipath Posts: 2322  |
Mmm dont really think much of this album, definalty far from their best but its still ok. An average effort by CoB on the first listen and my thoughts on it havent changed much since then. Also i hate one of the keyboard parts on the title track... i keep thinking the home phone is ringing haha.
---- Hellcunt Smurf
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| Stigmatized .......... Posts: 3820  |
The more I listened to it, the more I didn't like it. A couple of catchy songs, but that's about it.
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| Savage Messiah Metal Drummer Posts: 272  |
Written by [user id=2371] on 18.07.2006 at 04:26 Why are you still comparing Kalmah to CoB?? They have grown further and further apart, and this is shown clearly by both these band's latest albums.
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| Asat0r Posts: 961  |
Am I one of the only people that actually really like this album? At first I hated it, but the more I listened to it, the more I grew to love it.
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| Savage Messiah Metal Drummer Posts: 272 |
Yeah I thought it was cool, it's different, and once you get past that it grows on you.
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| Damnated Churchburner Posts: 4943  |
Well, it didn't grew on me, I hated it. The Britney Spears cover didn't make it better. Maybe if they covered 'Hit me one more time' 
---- Blessed is he that murders Christ in himself and in his fellow men.  Written by TheBigRossowski on 10.02.2009 at 16:01
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| Lucas Mr. Noise Elite Posts: 13427  |
Not so much 'kids'. You scared them away.  Didn't like it either, never cared about CoB anyway.
---- SLUDGE. DOOM. DEATH. Wait, what?  "The reason I'm running for president is because I can't be Bruce Springsteen." - Barack Obama
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| Robstar Posts: 230  |
I did like it afterwards listening several times (many) much more technical but less aggressive! Of course not the best COB album! I got al their stuff and their old shit rocks! Specially their famous ''Something Wild'' and ''Hatebreeder'' Anyway, It is a good album but it didn't fullfilled all the expectatives! Stay Extreme People!
---- Nothing is unreacheable
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| marinBG Posts: 362  |
I've been a hardcore COB fan since Hatebreeder... Hatebreeder and Follow the Reaper are still my favourite 2 albums ever... HCDr disappointed me a bit, but Are You Dead Yet? rocks so much... I really love the new stuff... and I think i'm as much of a trend victim as Undercraft... the only difference is that i'm victim of the nu trend, while he is a victim of the be-tr00 trend, which I think is even lamer!
---- ...cause I don't give a fuck if you hate me!
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| marinBG Posts: 362 |
ok, if you don't like the songwriting, it's ok... everyone has his taste... but i think it's stupid to get trends involved in judging music... you either like it, or not... if you don't like the songwriting on this one, I love it... and you cannot prove me wrong, and i can't prove you wrong, because it's all subjective... so people should keep that in mind while writing reviews... that's it... and I agree... Follow The Reaper is still a bit better than this one...
---- ...cause I don't give a fuck if you hate me!
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| Dangerboner Lactation Cnslt Posts: 7262  |
I think people dislike this album because it is their slowest release yet, but it is their heaviest. Also, Alexi's vocals aren't as good as they used to be.
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| Arian Totalis The Philosopher Posts: 3351  |
I don't know what you all have against it. Sure, their playing style has changed a bit, I'd even go as far as sayin that it's their worst album, But it's still Pretty good, I still like it a lot.
---- "For the Coward there is no Life For the hero there is No Death" -Kakita Toshimoko "The Philosopher, you know so much about nothing at all." _Chuck Schuldiner.
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| Doc G. Full Grown Hoser Staff Posts: 9718  |
what a big let down. like holy crap...ive never wanted my 14 bucks back so bad in my life. Bodom didnt just go down hill on this one, they seemed to crash and burn on this one. say goodbye to the bodom we all know and love people.......well im not sure, every bodom album sounds different so theres a chance for improvement i guess....but dont count on it. though i have to admit that 'living deadbeat' is a good set opener.
---- "I got a lot of really good ideas, problem is, most of them suck." - George Carlin
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| Soliloquy Posts: 1892  |
/\ he acutally is doing that. he was saying that Dream Theatre sucks, and they dont make music. in many cases, its pertrucci who is more famous than dream theater, and so to say anything about dream theater, you say shit about petrucci automatically. but either way, i havent gotten this album. but to be honest, i'm liking some of the work from this album. now i'm not a person to burn music, but for this, i might make an exception. its nothing worthy of buying. but something worth ripping....
---- now get on your knees and worship me! -Zakk Wylde
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