Children of Bodom announce new album ‘Hexed’

CHILDREN OF BODOM have announced a new album!

The new album, is the tenth effort from the Finnish melodic death metallers and is scheduled to be released in March next year.

Hexed saw the return to Finland’s Danger Johnny Studios where the band were reunited with Mikko Karmila (I Worship Chaos, Halo Of Blood, Hatebreeder, Follow the Reaper and Hate Crew Deathroll) who recorded everything except keyboards and also produced the album with the band. Janne Wirman recorded keyboards at Beyond Abilities Studios. The album was mixed and mastered at Finnvox Studios in Helsinki, Finland.

Speaking about the upcoming record, guitarist/vocalist Alexi Laiho says, “people have said that this album is generally catchier. So I started thinking about that, perhaps the song structures are easier to grasp on initial listen. But there’s some crazy shit in there, almost progressive or at least technical. There are certain melodies across the album that could have come from jazz songs, although they’re completely metal with us, of course [laughs].” Bassist Henkka Blacksmith adds, “for me, it has always been very hard to describe our new music. In a way it always feels familiar, but the new stuff also always surprises me. Here we have something that’s very BODOM, but somehow we haven’t done this kind of stuff, possibly ever. Then again, someone said that there’s a somewhat similar vibe to what Follow the Reaper had. I don’t know. Anyway, we had a really hard time choosing the songs for the videos, I guess that’s a positive problem to have.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming record. Both of which are available to view below:

Track List: 

1. The Road
2. Under Grass and Clover
3. Glass Houses
4. Hecate’s Nightmare
5. Kick in the Spleen
6. Platitudes and Barren Words
7. Hexed
8. Relapse (The Nature of My Crime)
9. Say Never Look Back
10. Soon Departed
11. Knuckleduster
12. I Worship Chaos (live)
13. Morrigan (live)
14. Knuckleduster (remix)

Hexed is set for release on March 8th via Nuclear Blast Records.

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