Chaos Ridden Years - Stockholm Knockout Live

Children of bodom at their best concert

maravilloso álbum en vivo.

This is a decent performance and overall package but the audio recording for the CD release is distorted and there are periodic audio glitches.

Excelente

First I have to say that Bodom is my favorite band and Alexi is a master...but this album was not as good as their first live album. I think that Alexi's playing has worsened over the years. The songs on the album are a fairly good selection. They really limit the number of songs off of Are You Dead Yet?, which is fantastic. The real disappointment is that they only play one song off of Something Wild and only a few off of Hatebreeder and some of the solos are not up to par; all of the tracks off of Follow The Reaper are phenominal. The sound quality is pretty good on all the tracks, and all but Henka have their own solo tracks, including Clash of the Booze Brothers which is a throw back to Tokyo Warhearts with Alexi and Janne battling it out, though I think Alexi kind of falls short of what I expected. All in all this album is a must own for all Bodom fans. This lets all fans experience Bodom live, since trips around the US for Bodom are few and far between.

Alright performance-wise this seems like a pretty good live album by Bodom, but my main problem with this CD is that it's very dominant with the Hate-Crew Deathroll and Are You Dead yet? Material. Being a fan of their first 3 CDs more (I like all of their music but the first 3 are biggies on me), I wish they could have put more onto the setlist from Hatebreeder, Reaper, and especially Something Wild - maybe they could have added "Deadnight Warrior" or "Children Of Bodom" or even "Mask Of Sanity" - I think they could have made a live record with more of their older neo-classical death metal days, but this CD is fair - sound quality is good, but I think Alexi's screams have gone less-aggressive throughout the years. Guitars are great, keyboards sound clear - soundwise it's fine, but I just wish they could have added more songs from their first 3 albums rather than dominating the later days of Bodom. 3 stars.

Entregado antes de lo previsto pero dañado

Todo muy bien.

This is how you want to remember COB, fresh, raw and with attitude. I think that you often have to listen to Live Albums from a group to really hear their souls, studio productions tend to be more superficial (in som cases). When you really want brutal honest rock'n roll, in this case just listen to Alexi Laiho and the rest of the band for inspiration,