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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| Sunioj Posts: 3894 From: Finland  |
Written by Guest on 27.02.2007 at 04:47 There is truth to that...I highly doubt that Alexi is dedicated to being true to their sound or to their old fans. But hey, if its about money, Cob did go the right way. Doesnt mean that I have respect for them though.
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| FOOCK Nam Posts: 3571 From: Vietnam  |
This album doesnt sastify me. I listened to few songs of it. Though its not original and intense melodious like Follow The Reaper and HateCrew. To me, Follow The Reaper still is best one of Children Of Bodom.
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| Asat0r Posts: 961 From: USA  |
The problem with this album is that it doesn't have any lasting appeal. I used to listen to it all the time, now I may give one or two of the songs a listen once a month. I really wish the would return to the days of Follow the Reaper.
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| darksun Posts: 601 From: Turkey  |
I find the album vry usual especially lyrics.They seem to have lost old bodom days and creativity
---- Dark is the sunlight,we cast the life together Dark is the sunlight or I'm blind forever..
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| flamesoficarus Posts: 135 From: Australia |
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| Paganblood The Aryaputra Posts: 1194 From: Nepal  |
"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." I agree 100%. this band has done a brittney spears cover! How ashaming! there is nothing serious in this band, and this is not an evergreen band, I mean there are/were bands like amon amarth, iron maiden, immortal, possessed which always made good music, but CO(F)B doesn't fall in this catagory. I've listened to many COB albums, none have satisfied me, because I see no seriousness in them, they seem to play metal to mock metal.
---- that which shines without names and forms...
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| Robstar Posts: 230 From: Costa Rica  |
I did not like that much this album , to be specific It did not fill my expectations from these dudes at all... My favorite tracks from this album will be : Are you Dead Yet and In your Face
---- Nothing is unreacheable
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| 4look4rd The Sasquatch Posts: 834 From: USA  |
Written by Paganblood on 17.03.2007 at 14:55 True. Thought I do like their strumental (yup power metal fan here), but I always thought that their lyrics and the vocals are a disgrace =\
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| Paganblood The Aryaputra Posts: 1194 From: Nepal |
Written by 4look4rd on 04.07.2007 at 04:12 I wonder if a power metal fan can be pleased with COB's music... (imo there are better PM bands than COB isn't it?)
---- that which shines without names and forms...
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| 4look4rd The Sasquatch Posts: 834 From: USA |
Written by Paganblood on 08.07.2007 at 05:56 Sure there is buddy, but Warman an amazing keyboard player (one of my favorites) also I dont see why a power metal fan should be unpleased with their music (not this album but the older ones) if you ignore the vocals (which I hate) you'll see that they are skilled musicians
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| Paganblood The Aryaputra Posts: 1194 From: Nepal |
Written by 4look4rd on 08.07.2007 at 07:01 yes, the vocals are repulsive... not that they're bad musicians but their rhythm doesn't have much variation imo..
---- that which shines without names and forms...
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| selken Irreligious Posts: 949 From: El Salvador  |
IMO the album is not so bad, at least, it doesn't deserve such a low rating, I mean, the album is not impressive nor original, but it still far more listenable than other albums with higher ratings. Not my choice anyway, I prefer Follow the Reaper
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| Warman Erotic Stains Posts: 7695 From: Sweden  |
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| Sepulchre Lord Hypnos Posts: 189 From: USA  |
I think its good, but yeah, not nearly as good as Follow The Reaper, Hatebreeder, and Something Wild
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| +{Jonas}+ I R Serious Cat Posts: 4955 From: Colombia  |
It's not so good as teh other albums, but it's still a good album, I think it deserves more than just a 5.0...
---- "Nobody wants to be the weird kid, you just end up being the weird kid. You don't know how you ended up getting there" - Rob Zombie http://jonas-bs.deviantart.com My dA, mainly photography, go check it out!
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| juanopereira Posts: 268 From: Chile  |
I Think it's their worst album, but it's not so bad to deserve just a 5.0
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| Born-2rise Nayyiker Posts: 98 From: Lebanon |
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| ioannisk Posts: 75 From: Greece  |
totally disagree. One of the best albums cob have created and the vocals in this one is just brilliant! It's a pity that lahio didn't maintain them to the next album as well.
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| Deadmeat Necrobutcher Posts: 2437 From: Greece  |
I've not listened much that band but I feel this album is very good. I can't find a bad song, the production is so good and technically it is also good. 9!
---- Υou've sold your human essence to the cold world of dead and empty things... You're SOLD!
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| Daggon Underpaid M.D. Posts: 1689 From: Mexico  |
Yup, I found this album boring, and by the way, it is REAPER not Ripper. Well I agree with your review.
---- "Les vers savent qu'ils n'ont pas d'ailes, c'est pour cela qu'ils se cachent sous terre"
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| ceekes Posts: 4 From: Belgium |
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| Land Of Doom Posts: 101 From: Syria  |
Its A bad thing to but only 5 to this album It's a true that the album not Special but I think it Deserves 8 or 9 For me I vote 9 to it
---- We Only Fear What Comes And Smell Death Every Day Search For The Answers That Lie Beyond
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| BORT Posts: 98 From: Canada |
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| Rupert Posts: 468 From: Canada  |
Written by Land Of Doom on 15.12.2008 at 05:06 9's pretty high for nothing special.
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| wormdrink414 Posts: 1295 From: USA  |
This album was the biggest departure from the early Bodom sound I love. There are some cool, "Bodom on sedatives" moments but otherwise the album deserves nothing over six points. But look how famous they are now. They slowed things down, playing stuff that sounds more like metalcore than extreme power metal and they are one of the most popular metal bands around. But their fame came not without major sacrifices. Alexi's guitar work is choppier, slower, and less complicated, the keyboards are toned down, making Alexi's hideous vocals clearer and even less tolerable. The album is mediocre but sounds marvelous when played before or after Blooddrunk. Hopefully they'll put out another album like Follow the Reaper or Hatebreeder soon.
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| Panterica Posts: 341 From: Israel  |
I'm not very familiar with their work, but this album sounds very good to me. Not as Hate Crew Deathroll but still very good.
---- Li'ed - Prog-Metal from Jerusalem https://open.spotify.com/artist/7aZWDrAAvDSLMaSmDSE8zA https://www.facebook.com/LiedBandMusic http://lied-band.bandcamp.com/
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