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Rating: This CD is violent (in response to the criticism that rained down like würstel following the fact that I omitted this little detail).
The beginning, for these five Finns, is anything but complicated, unlike other bands: two demos of great quality (but that do not reflect - especially in light of the latest release - the style of the children of the most famous lake in metal) and they are immediately, through Spinefarm, under the protective wing of Nuclear Blast, one of the most powerful labels in the metal world.
In this album, COB offers a very symphonic death metal, heavily contaminated by black metal but here and there you can already hear small melodic parts of pure power metal, parts that will take over all other influences in the second album of their career: Hatebreeder.
Technically impeccable: Alexi Lahio spits solos and sweeps (yes, I know you don't know what they are but I don't care) as if it were normal, supported and doubled by the immense keyboardist Janne Warmann and by a rhythmic section that is not exceptional but still decent.
Last element, THE GREAT GUITARIST Alexander Kuoppala who, despite being as good as Lahio (and perhaps even more, just listen to the live shows) was always relegated to the role of rhythm guitarist due to Alexi's egocentrism. Now Kuoppala has left COB, rebelled, and is finally free. They saw him running in the Finnish forests naked and in a frenzy, go Ale, we are all with you.
We were saying??? Ah yes... well great CD, violent, angry, and enhanced by Alexi Lahio's virtuosity, growl similar to Popeye's voice, and the great Janne Warmann: a great duo of neoclassical inspiration. You will struggle not to fall in love with this CD.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Deadnight Warrior (03:21)
Before the Daylight falls to rest,
into shadows,
Soon I'll be on a black-night trip,
I'll fly across the sky.
It's not a lonely flight,
This one'll be black,
The death lies always in the sky,
It reflect hatred in my eyes.
[Keyboard stuff]
If the daylight dies, the Shadow's are falling on me.
Then I'll be at your side,
Always in the moonlight shadow,
I can't get out,
Lost in time for eternity.
[Lead part]
You're the guard of the dead ones,
In the night I'll find you to drink your blood,
You're the Dead night's fresh meat in my arms,
The dead by night's close by!
Don't wake it up, call my name, it's death!
Set them all on a trip of pain,
I can't wait!
[Kick ass solo!]
[After solo this part comes again]
It's such a lonely flight,
This one'll be black,
The death lies always in the sky,
It reflect hatred in my eyes.
It is such a pain to allow, -???
being hard to wound, -???
Always in the moonlight shadow [echo: shadow],
I can't get out!
06 The Nail (06:17)
While cutting their shadows, kill them into the dark trough
Black is all the way, furious never-ending darkness show
Only way could be hard in their small and human nation
I kill the first man, getting by death, we are God, through death
Go, get up... victims that died
Waiting for death, I should cry
Take the farther off to cut your means,
listening up for afraid by means,
They showed laughing me for my heart
So they wake up these scythes, following me,
cold wind blow out, now to go,
Let it go again with the scythes
(Something wild!)
It`s got the light, blow it out within you
Never let the best shot come from fucking Avalon, that`s the one
Time to feel my spirit... I gathered my souls
Beat my night to kill them into my sin (doom... get up!)
Well go, get up... victims that died
Waiting for death, I should cry
(Laughter)
I can`t wait to for my heart...
I can`t get up, shadows... down (can't get up!)
Set them along, time is right, far too along...
they wake me up (wake me up!)
07 Touch Like Angel of Death (07:46)
a glance to my eyes, deep within reveals
this worn-out warrior's mind
i'm killing you by suffering
discomposure of a deepest kind
in the night i crave to feel your breath
and your touch like angel of death
in the dawn i'm in chains of beastial rage
and forced to make you dead
the chains get tighter around my throat
i can give you no love, only dead-lift of pain
in the dusk of evening i tuck you up with feather
forever i'll stand by your side
in the twilight of night i'm laughing
while cutting you hundred and thirteen times
can't you see i am evil, double-edged razor
child of eternal hate.
to torment you like a motherfuckin-whore
i'll make you cry forever more
i'd crawl through broken glass to you...
and your name is written in my very flesh
with the knife i'm still longing to use
in the night i crave to feel your breath
and your touch like angel of death
in the dawni'm in chains of bestial rage
and forced to make you dead
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By ghigno92
The result is truly curious and intriguing.
'Lake Bodom' conceptually summarizes the entire album, and I find it perfect for introducing the band to a newcomer of the Espoo quintet.
