Children of Bodom - Children of Bodom

Release date: 26-Apr-1999 Producer: Anssi Kippo Cover design: Graham French Label: Spinefarm Records and Nuclear Blast Remark: This song was first release on the split EP "Children of Bodom" in January 1998. Because of a bad quality, they decided to re-record this song for the Hatebreeder album. Children of Bodom is an other famous finnish metal band that broke up (end of 2019). Their name derives from the lake bodominjärvi (in english just "lake Bodom") that borders to the district bodom of espoo city. The most members came from the surroundings of the lake. It is international known for the murders of 3 teenagers, that happended in 1960. Two boys (18 years old) and two girls (15 years old) were camping at the shore of lake Bodom. At the dawn a stranger attacked them in their tent. One boy survived with serious injuries. The murderer still couldn&be found. He acted brutal and irrational, there seems to be no understandable reasons for the murders. The name has thus two meanings. One stands for the band members themselves and one for the 3 murdered teenagers. The reaper that is pictured on the covers is shown as a living man and not as it is common as a skeleton. This refers to the murderer of the 3 teenagers. On almost every album (except "Relentless Reckless Forever" and "Hexed") one song refers to the murders at lake Bodom. In this way the band tries less to remember the victims of the lake Bodom murders than to increase the impression of their songs. Especially I...