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Are You Dead Yet?

Children of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet? Audio CD

A fair review of the Children of Bodom "Are You Dead Yet?" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Children of Bodom reviews here, or go back to the Children of Bodom tabs.

Band: Children of Bodom
Title: Are You Dead Yet?
Rating:

Release Date: 2005-09-14
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Living Dead Beat 2: Are You Dead Yet? 3: If You Want Peace.... Prepare for War 4: Punch Me I Bleed 5: In Your Face 6: Next in Line 7: Bastards of Bodom 8: Trashed, Lost and Strungout 9: We're Not Gonna Fall 10: Oops! I Did It Again 11: Talk Dirty to Me

Are You Dead Yet?
First of all, I'll begin by saying I love this band. Well people, this is Children Of Bodom's fifth album. I love the neo-classical riffs, highly melodic speed, and suitably high-pitched death growls. Alas, they've suddenly fallen into the same trap In Flames has, and the quality of their music has gone downhill.

SOUND: Well they've randomly introduced a thrash-like sound, but it doesn't even sound that thrashy, just aggressive hardcore stuff. But then they mix it with the keyboard, which makes the whole sound cheesy. The combined sound does NOT work well at all. It's like they've cut and paste two different songs together.
VOCALS: Alexi's death growls aren't too bad, but they're a bit too "screamy. " In a lot of the chorus though, he sings (badly), again making the whole song cheesy. I'd prefer him not to sing, than what he's attempting to do.
LYRICS: Not very good. I've never cared too much for lyrics in melodic death metal music (the wonderful music makes up for it), but this is absurd. Go read the lyrics for "In Your Face" for example.

GOOD SONGS:
"Trashed, Lost & Strung Out" - The best song on the CD. The thrash-like sound actually SOUND like thrash, and it combines well with the melody. It sounds like an old time COB song and has a cool solo
"We're Not Gonna Fall" - Another old sounding COB song. It has a catchy chorus and a good keyboard/guitar solo.
"Living Dead Beat" - I love the introduction, and the consistent tune with the duel-guitar effect. I don't like the chorus very much, but the singing can't be helped. There is a 1min 15-second solo, which starts off with the guitar leading, then the keyboards.
"Somebody Put Something In My Drink" - A pretty hilarious cover of the Ramones song. But the `happiness' of the song seems out of place on this album.

OKAY SONGS:
"Are You Dead Yet" - For being the title track, it's a little disappointing. Although the solo isn't too bad, the rest of the song is filled with repetitive chords and an ANNOYING chorus.
"[. . . ] Of Bodom" - The melody is good in this song, but then combined with the metalcore riffs spoils the song a bit.
"Next In Line" - Quite a forgettable song. The music is quite good this time, but the screaming and ridiculous chorus is irritating. However the keyboard solo is high quality.

BAD SONGS: (by bad I mean not so good for Bodom)
"In Your Face" - Second single and I must comment how AWFUL it is. With atrocious childish lyrics, this song puts COB to shame. Sure it's heavy, but with this song the mix of hardcore and neo-classical fits together like two broken jigsaw pieces. One minute he's screaming to the same distorted riff (played three times!) then he's singing to the most retarded chorus in the album. The only good thing about this song is the drumming.
"If You Want Peace. . . Prepare For War" - The introduction doesn't even sound like COB, but wouldn't be out of place on a Slipknot album. Although there is some melody the "Slipknot-esque" screams and chugging riffs dominants the whole song.
"Punch Me I Bleed" - The slow approach to this song is just silly. The chugging music is the verse is impractical, and the music to the chorus sounds like heavy power ballad music. I'm not sure what on EARTH he means by "I play the radio in everyway. "

It's not worth buying the imported CD for the two bonus tracks. I haven't heard "Talk Dirty To Me" but I have heard "Oops I Did It Again" and. . . it's not very good. It's still a very good album, but not brilliant, like previous COB albums. Although there is quite a bit of melody, the metalcore sound combined makes the songs sound more mainstream and less like the Godly Gothenburg sound. The songs are watered down in complexity and song structure, as well as the lyrics and solos. Like Anders Frid?n (In Flames vocalist), Alexi Laiho sings in the choruses, but he's not that impressive
3. 5 stars.

HATEBREEDER AND FOLLOW THE REAPER ARE STILL BETTER
The import+2 includes a Ramones Cover And Britney Spears Cover "0ops I did it again. The follow-up to 2003's 'Hate Crew Deathroll' It is more straight-forward than its predecessor and contanis some industrial elements while retaining COB's trademark sound, including the super-fast guitar and keyboard solos. But like I said "HATEBREEDER" and "FOLLOW THE REAPER" are still the best.

They still got it
its not like hatecrew deathroll or FTR but its still nice. I think that this album is not so bad. Some songs like "Living dead beat" and "if you want peace. . . . prepare for war" are great and sound diffrent but great. Alexi said that this album is going to be diffrent then others and it is. i give four stars because i think that they still got it and are not gonna disappoint us CoB fans with theyr next album.

Good CD )
The Songs are good and catchy and having listening to them for 1. This is a great album it may not be as technical but it is still a good album. 5 years I would say that they are not main stream Metal. .

Sorrow sweeps the land of Bodom...
Living Dead Beat
-song is overall catchy and well done!

Track 04. I was so very dissapointed after going through this album!!! For a true COB fan the lack of solos and keyboads just don't cut it! We know and heard what COB can do and this is not even half of it! The songs are SO MUCH LESS technical, it's not even funny how the riffs are much more repetitive; at times sounding like nu-metal ::shivers:: WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!!! I am truly upset how my fav bands such as COB, Soilwork, and Arch Enemy can't seem to deliever anymore! My tip for them : STAY AWAY FROM MAINSTREAM METAL!!! Sadly I only enjoyed three songs in this album and do feel free to downlaod them, for this album is NOT worth buying! ::WEEP::

TO DOWNLOAD:

Track 01. Punch Me I Bleed
-a bit slow but "Bodomlike", awesome solo (too short!)
-will remind u of "Angels Don't Kill" from Deathtoll cd
-again lack of keyboards like most of the cd

Track 06. Next In Line
-my FAVORITE song in the cd VERY "BODOMLIKE"!!!!!!!!!!!
-if only all the songs in this cd can be like this one. . . =(
-best solo in this cd

If u must buy this cd for ur Bodom collection do so, but I strongly urge u not 2 waste ur hard earned money on this. We can only hope for the next cd. . .

~Metal Mo

If ur into COB try
~KALMAH - get ALL ALBUMS
~IMPERANON - get "Stained"
~SKYFIRE - get "Mind Revolution" and "Spectral"
~NORTHER - get "Dreams Of Endless War" .

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