October 30, 2000 - Follow The Reaper
Six days after my last release and a year and half since "Hatebreeder", Children Of Bodom released their third album "Follow The Reaper" on October 30, 2000. Children Of Bodom continue to play the same style of melodic death metal and Alexi Laiho continues to improve as a vocalist. Let's see what their latest has to offer! The album begins with the title track "Follow The Reaper" and after a short quote about death Laiho kicks in with a nice lead guitar riff, Janne Wirman adds some cool keyboards as usual and the rhythm section falls in nicely behind them, especially a solid bass riff by Henkka Seppala. Laiho screams a nice verse overtop and he continues to sound clearer and better with every album. The backing keyboards are really cool and of course Laiho plays lots of fast and cool guitar as well. Wirman sets the stage for solo time perfectly, and then he erupts with a super fast keyboard solo that sounds so fucking good! Laiho follows that right up