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Children Of Bodom - Something Wild



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Release date: 16 November 1997
Style: Extreme power metal

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01. Deadnight Warrior
02. In The Shadows
03. Red Light In My Eyes, Pt 1
04. Red Light In My Eyes, Pt 2
05. Lake Bodom
06. The Nail
07. Touch Like Angel Of Death
08. Children Of Bodom [original single version] [2008 re-release bonus]
09. Mass Hypnosis [Sepultura cover] [2008 re-release bonus]

Additional info
Recorded and mixed at Astia Studio by Anssi Kippo with assistance from Jokke Ryhanen and Pasi Karppa in July-August 1997.
Produced by Anssi Kippo and Children Of Bodom.
Cover photo by Graham French.
Band photography by Toni Härkönen.
Cover artwork by Flea Black.

The last track has extra time which consists of silence and an uncredited keyboard solo lasting about 1:19 known as "Coda". The original pressing of the album has also an uncredited eighth track with duration of 0:10, but it's all silence.

Staff review by
Undercraft
Rating:
9.5
1997 was the year that a band redefined and I must dare to say, invented a whole new genre of Metal, Children Of Bodom was the band, and "Something Wild" took the Metal community by storm, the music was so undecipherable, so innovative so? strange.
Children Of Bodom took Melodic Death Metal, Power Metal, classical music and created a strange brew that critics everywhere tried to define, call it Extreme Metal, Power/Death Metal even Bodom Metal! Call it everything you want, but nobody can deny that these guys created something completely new here.

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published 26.02.2004 | Comments (35)

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02.02.2012 - 03:33
Cuca Beludo
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Great album. This sounds better than the new material, I think the best CoB album..!
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24.02.2012 - 15:24
Rating: 8
musicalkaratekid

The first two COB albums are really underrated. This isn't perfect, but as a start its pretty damn good.
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01.03.2012 - 21:00
Korah

Great first album!
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Don't cry for my English
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04.03.2012 - 10:21
Rating: 9
AngelofDeth
Cyborg Raptor
More raw and darker than the later albums, fucking good shit!
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pewpew.. gotcha
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06.03.2012 - 17:13
Zap
Guest
The Nail's solo section is beautiful
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19.03.2014 - 06:42
Rating: 9
mikeprado30

This one is very great, darker than the next ones.
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BARDS WE ARE, BARDS WE WILL BE!
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01.05.2015 - 23:26
Rating: 10
metalfan1999

This one has a lot of black metal influences as well
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26.07.2015 - 22:23
Rating: 5
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by metalfan1999 on 01.05.2015 at 23:26

This one has a lot of black metal influences as well


this band influentially well they make Briteny cover ... so
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Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!!

Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''
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I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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13.09.2019 - 14:38
Rating: 7
Metal Rasputin

Neat for a debut, but they have done a lot better stuff. I actually remember liking their original demo releases more than this.
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You've got a lot of guts. Let's see what they look like!
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20.10.2020 - 19:02
Rating: 6
sbgmetal

A bit unfocused but it has its moments
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18.03.2022 - 11:52
Rating: 9
Stormm

Definitely deserves better rating, because this album is ALMOST as good as Hatebreeder and Follow The Reaper. In certain ways. But you can't compare this too much to them, because this album has more of gothic motives and more black metal rawness. But there are tons of ideas and riffs and I consider this album as Reign In Blood of melodic death metal.
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