Something Wild (album)

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Something wild
Children of Bodom's studio album

Publication
(s)

1998

Label (s) Spinefarm Records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Metal

Title (number)

7th

running time

36 min 01 s

occupation
  • E-bass : Henkka "T. Blacksmith “Seppälä

production

Anssi Kippo, Children of Bodom

Studio (s)

Astia Studio

chronology
Shining (demo)
(1996) 		Something wild Hatebreeder
(1999)

Something Wild is the debut album of the Finnish metal band Children of Bodom , whose exact definition of the style is controversial, but is mostly assigned to Melodic Death Metal or simply metal.

History of origin

In 1993 the band "Inearthed" was founded by guitarist and singer Alexi Laiho and drummer Jaska Raatikainen . In the following years more band members were added: the rhythm guitarist Alexander Kuoppala, the bassist Hennka Seppälä and the keyboardist Jani Pirisjoki. Three demo recordings were produced under different line-ups: Implosion of Heaven (1994), Ubiquitos Absence of Remission (1995) and Shining (1996).

Eventually the band was looking for a record company to sponsor their first album. But nobody was interested in the band and so the band members decided to pay the cost of the album, which amounted to around 3,500 euros , themselves.

Shortly before the recordings, Pirisjoki was kicked out of the band because he didn't take the project seriously enough. As a replacement, Raatikainen asked his school friend Janne Wirman . Up until then he had mostly played jazz on the piano and had little knowledge of metal. Even so, the band recorded the album in July and August 1997. Wirman proved to be extremely talented when he was asked to invent an improvisation on the song "Lake Bodom", which all band members liked very much.

Inearthed was looking for a record company to release their album. At first they couldn't find a suitable offer until they got one from a small Belgian record label. However, the studio costs were not covered and the band had to sell 1,000 copies of the album themselves. A little later, the album came to Spinefarm Records through Alexander Kuoppala's friend Sami Tenetz, the guitarist of Thy Serpent , who immediately made the band a very good contract offer. The band was already under contract with the Belgian label, which is why Spinefarm proposed a renaming in order to break away from the old record deal. So Inearthed changed their name to "Children of Bodom". In November 1997, Spinefarm Records released the album. It reached number 20 in the Finnish album charts.

In 1998 the album was also released abroad by Nuclear Blast and Toys Factory, among others .

On October 31, 1997, she gave her first concert as Children of Bodom opened for Dimmu Borgir and in 1998 toured with them Disbelief , Crack Up , Hypocrisy , Benediction and other bands, in an event organized by Nuclear Blast Festival - tour .

style

The album cannot be classified into a specific metal genre . There are elements from the black metal and melodic death metal together and fast guitar and keyboard solos and - melodies reminiscent in places of power metal . Similar to Black Metal, Laiho's vocals sound even deeper and darker here than later, for example on Are You Dead Yet? . However, you will also find a lot of rhythmic , hard guitar riffs here , which have to be assigned to Melodic Death Metal.

Furthermore, elements from classical music are added, examples are the intro of "Red Light in My Eyes, Part 1", in which JS Bach's "Intervention 13" is used, the intro of "Red Light in My Eyes, Part 2" , in which the first theme of WA Mozart's “ 25th Symphony ” and the chorus of the song, where its “Requiem” (Part 3.5: “Confutatis maledictis”) is used, and a riff from “The Nail”, that of JS Bachs "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565" is coming.

The cover artwork was designed by Graham Fench designed . It's red and shows a grim reaper reaching out forward. The producers of the album were Anssi Kippo and Children of Bodom.

Songs

At the beginning of “Deadnight Warrior” you can hear a sample from Stephen King's Es .

At the beginning of “The Nail” you hear a quote from Ben Hur , accompanied by a sound from Nightmare: Murderous Dreams .

In the songs you can hear some riffs from songs by other bands: In “The Nail” parts of Yngwie Malmsteen's “Far Beyond the Sun” and “Vengeance” by Nuclear Assault appear . In “In the Shadows” you can also hear a riff that could possibly come from Darkthrone's Transilvanian Hunger and later you hear a guitar and keyboard interlude that sounds similar to part of “One Rode to Asa Bay” by Bathory .

In the CD booklet only the text of "Touch Like Angel of Death" was published.

In the first original “Spinefarm Records” version of the album, this title, called Coda (“Ende”) has a hidden keyboard solo at about six minutes. This solo is the re-enacted theme song from the television series Miami Vice and was played by Alexi Laiho and Alexander Kuoppala when they were drunk in the studio.

There is also an eighth title on the first version, but it only contains ten seconds of silence.

Later re-releases contain additional bonus tracks .

Track list

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Something wild
  FI 20th 52/1997 (12 weeks)

Standard tracks

  1. Deadnight Warrior - 3:22
  2. In the Shadows - 6:01
  3. Red Light In My Eyes (Part 1) - 4:28
  4. Red Light In My Eyes (Part 2) - 3:50
  5. Lake Bodom - 4:02
  6. The Nail - 6:18
  7. Touch Like Angel of Death - 7:47
    ∙ Touch Like Angel of Death - 4:05
    ∙ Coda - 1:47
  8. Bruno the Pig (hidden title) - 0:10

Deluxe Edition bonus tracks

2008 version of bonus tracks

  • Children of Bodom (Original Single Version) - 5:13
  • Mass Hypnosis - 7:00 am
  • Music video for "Deadnight Warrior"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.scythes-of-bodom.com/site.php?go=bio/1&lang=de (link not available)
  2. ↑ sputnikmusic.com: album review
  3. ↑ http://www.scythes-of-bodom.com/site.php?go=disco&lang=de&album=sw (link not available)
  4. ↑ finnishcharts.com: Children of Bodom in the Finnish charts