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Rating: The guys from the fuckin' Finland have done it again. I don't know how many of you are familiar with the DVD "Trashed, Lost & Strungout" released in November 2005, but if you thought you'd seen everything from Children Of Bodom, you're wrong.
The DVD "Chaos Ridden Years: Stockholm Knockout Live" showcases a Bodom concert in Stockholm in February 2006.
The DVD consists of:
- Concert
- Interviews
- Promo Video Section
- Deleted Scenes
- Making Of
- Photo Gallery
The concert opens with the favorite track of the Finnish band's frontman, Alexi Laiho, "Living Dead Beat", whose conclusion with overdrive and tremolo is used to its best to introduce a Bodom classic, "Sixpounder", a nasty, gritty, and powerful piece. Another well-charged track is the following "Silent Night, Bodom Night", followed by an exhilarating "Hate Me!". Straight from the album "Are You Dead Yet?", CoB brings us "We're Not Gonna Fall", showcasing the first duel between guitar and keyboard... After a quick guitar change by Laiho, keyboardist Janne Warman introduces one of the most beautiful pieces of the entire performance "Angels Don't Kill": with rather rhythmic tempos, almost atmospheric at some points, the Bodom angels that don't kill manage to move you with their nostalgic sound.
After this piece, the first solo of the evening begins, "Deadbeats I" solo by the drummer Jaska Raatikainen who is praised by Laiho with a beautiful "He's a crazy son of a beeeeatch!" (listen to laugh behind this band of crazies). Then there's the classic CoB medley "Bodom After Midnight / Bodom Beach Terror" which becomes phenomenal when, in the final chorus, Alexi starts to sing "Stockholm after midnight, Stockholm after midnight ye, ye, yeah!"... beautiful... Then another historic track like "Follow The Reaper" which personally didn't impress me much. Next... to the cry of "Hei, Stockholm, somebody tell me what a fuck is goin' on!", "Needled 24/7" starts, followed by "The Clash Of The Booze Brothers", essentially a final riff duel between Alexi "Wild Child" Laiho and Janne "Warman" Wirman; a duel that ends with a hint of the most grotesque cover in the world "Oops! I Did It Again!" by Britney Spears... then immediately "In Your Face" another damn good track followed by the best-executed track on the entire DVD: if Alexi Laiho asks you "Are you the real motherfuckin' hate crew?" expect after a few seconds the beautiful "Hate Crew Deathroll" and expect something phenomenal and even a bit... 'moving', before the last chorus. Then the title track of their latest album "Are You Dead Yet?" a track with a crazy story behind it about three broken wrist bones.
As the concert nears its end, a solo by Roope "UKK" Latvala, accompanied in some parts by bassist Henkka Blacksmith, serves as an intro to "Lake Bodom" a track you sometimes love and sometimes can't stand... The last two tracks are "Everytime I Die" a wonderful slow track, and to finish in style, after Warman's request "Give me some of fuckin' heavy metal, pppplease!" begins to play the soundtrack of the film "Titanic" and after the opening notes of the last piece Laiho and Latvala pay homage to great metal, also hinting "Breaking The Law" by Judas Priest, the wild "Downfall" finally starts, accompanying Bodom to the end of the concert with the crowd shouting "Bodom! Bodom!" from below.
An interesting fact: evidently Alexi Laiho is a fan of Jim Carrey. After "We're Not Gonna Fall" he shouts to the audience "B-e-a-fuckin'-utiful!!!" which in Italian translates to Jim's line "Beeeellissimo" and after "Everytime I Die" he shouts "Allllright!" meaning Carrey's "Beeenissimo". A little treat for an exciting concert.
Tracklist and Lyrics
02 Sixpounder (03:41)
Can you say what you can't do
In darkness of the eyes
The wrecking voice stain mirror
Awaiting the first sixpounder
I wanna show you battle
That's how the pain really is
A little piss to bring you down
Like a spark resist you
Pounder!
War!
I refuse to be brought down by you
Praise is far away from what you do
Not only are you cranking up my rage
I'm ready to blow you away...666 (pounder)
Hey, what you said, that darkest time
I try to live all right
Little bits remain from you
That you try to persuade me by
Load the sixpounder!
Can you say what you can't do?
In darkness of the eyes
A little piss, to bring you down
Like a spark resist you
Pounder!
War!
War!
I refuse to be brought down by you
Praise is far away from what you do
Not only are you cranking up my rage
I'm ready to blow you away...666
04 Hate Me! (04:49)
I was born in ashes of molten hatred
Raised by demons in abodes of the end
The Reaper's scythe I fall upon to light my path
Wrecked by mangled wounds of life
I have become become the resurrection of the Evil one
'Y know that I don't fucking care if I live or die
I need a bishop preaching fire to get away with my sins
I despise everything I see so I don't give a fuck if ya hate me
Ain't got respect for humanity
Never lived or wanted immortality
The Reaper's shadow I fall upon to obscure my path
Every day I'm being battered up until I bleed
You motherfuckas just leave me be
Ya could never give me cure for the pain I feel inside
Led by the Reaper I walk in the night
Show me the way to yer kingdom come
I believe in Armageddon, I've been baptised in alcohol
I'm enbodyment of Antichrist
I'm living for my own demise
05 We're Not Gonna Fall (03:36)
Woah yeow
They try kicking and screaming as loud
Contation break us apart
Will not control us they wont hold you down
I'm sorry give my life to you
Another day of falling down your way
Pushing and screaming cause
they thought it might be right
Hey
Take my hand and fly
Will you never be that tall
Don't you be afraid
We ARENT* gonna fall
Did you think
I'd let you mix it up
Give me a reason bitch
You're gonna f**k it up
Hey
Take my hand and fly
Will you ever be that tall
Don't you be afraid
We ARENT* fall
Hey
Do you believe in what we've got
Try it, one shot
We stand once and for all
We're not ARENT* fall
[Solo]
Well you thought you had the authority
To slay, kill the minority
Together we stand tall
Not gonna crash, not gonna fall
Did you think I'd let you mix it up
Give me a reason bitch
I'm gonna f**k you up
It's real, into the charge
At the end we're standing up
09 Follow the Reaper (03:53)
'Death be not proud,
Though some have called thee mighty and dreadful
Thou art not so'
Loosing the war I'm feigning to win
Though I never tried to to strive deep from within.
Life could be beautiful for anybody it's for,
But I'd swear this mothafuckin' shit is rotten to the core.
The portal has been past and it's time to make a turn,
To follow the reaper until the point of no return.
When your blindly death-raying blade
sweeps the griefs and fears away
I cross my heart and hope to die thy freedom will be mine.
Sinking down in the ocean of severe emotions.
Grab a bottle to drink up the pain-relieving potion.
But after all, that got boring too,
So no matter what happens, I couldn't give a damn or two.
The portal has been past till the point of no return.
No more lines to cross, no bridges to burn.
Now when your blindly death-raying blade
swept my griefs and tears away.
I'd never go back to cross that line.
I cross my heart and hope to die
'I was only 21 when I died'
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