Children Of Bodom: Album update

Children of Bodom bass player Henkka T. Blacksmith has issued the following update on their new album...

"The darkness is crazy, it's also funny how it surprises every time. At 6 pm it's totally dark. And the days are getting shorter shorter and shorter. And it rains! But inside the studio it is nice and warm. The bass tracks were done last week and at the moment Alexi [Laiho; guitars and vocals] is finishing his solos. That means that all that is left is the keyboard sounds, and vocals. Janne [Wirman; keyboards] has already started working last week and he has recorded most of his stuff, but later on we still have to choose the sounds, the final sounds. So next week will be exciting, when we start choosing sounds, and recording the vocals. It's also the last week in the studio."

COB front man Alexi Laiho also spoke to Revolver magazine about how he drank himself silly after a two year tour for 2005’s ‘Are You Dead Yet?’...

"I was so tired of everything and everybody," he said. "I was just like, 'Fuck this, I'm going to get drunk."

"I was in a really aggressive mood, so I think the songs are thrashier and faster than the ones on 'Are You Dead Yet?'" Laiho added. "It's a faster album, but some of it is more progressive. You'll just have to hear it."