Children of Bodom (Every Time I Die) Kel-n-Rich's First Reaction
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And Alexi Laiho has been voted three times best guitarist in the metal scene.. And his voice.. Awesome!
Check my cmt u will be satisfied
Honestly, music like this, with clean vocals, just does not work. What I love about CoB and other melodic death metal bands is the sheer virtuosity of the guitar work, the amazing harmonies and melodies and the intensity of the music.
You speak the thruth!
Alexi's vocals are phenomenal. Used to be huge into CoB growing up, during high school. So so good, so many memories.
The founder of the band Alexi, just passed away last week :(
A real guitar hero for many others and myself.
R.I.P Alexi Laiho 1979-2021
Wintersun - Sons of winter and stars - Live rehearsal @ Sonic Pump Studios PRETTY PLEASE! :D
they already did 2.0
His vocals are so much better then some of the other heavy metal bands out there. It wouldnt be the same without that kind of power
His vocals are top-notch in metal music actually.
And Alexi Laiho is dead, he deceased about a month ago, the reaper took him.
RIP Legend.
Can't believe Alexi passed away the other day, you will be sadly missed. RIP ALEXI 🎸🎸🎸 Awesome review Kelnrich keep rocking. Love your channel ❤️❤️
Awesome reaction as always
I saw Children of Bodom live on their ”Hatecrew deathroll”-tour when I was 14 years old. I stood in the front with a stomach flu. Lovely memories!
Do yourselves a favor.. Put on the album Hatebreeder by COB. It'll change your minds.. COB is an amazing band. Their older albums are much more influenced by classical music you can definitely hear it
No way. Follow the Reaper blows that out of the water
I think Something Wild is better than Follow The Reaper and Hatebreeder is better than any of them..
I love CoB. It's a shame that they peaked soooo early; not that their later stuff is bad by any means. Just not as good imo.
@@howiefelthersnatch3862 Something wild is their first album and is good as well, but i'm with Dickmash Mclroncock for me too Follow The Reaper is the best album from COB and Hatebreeder is just after thanks to the song Bed Of Razors
their most accomplished album imo. these kids were 19 years old when they made it
One of my fave bands ever \m/
Check out Kissing the Shadows, the guitar work is so sick. Also, bodom after midnight from the same album. Keep it up, guys.
Just was recommended this video by TH-cam suggestions amd I swear to God I have on the same shirt Rich has
if i remember correctly back in early 2000's or maybe even before that , this song was written as memorial for late friend of the band. Used to be one of top10 songs on our bus travels.
6:00 Man thats so beautiful. Enjoying an amazing solo together like that
You said it yourself. It's dark. It's mean. It's angry. It's filled with destruction and that's where home is to me. That's home man.
The vocals are definitely startling. And I get why a lot of people don't like them. But that's HIM. it's real. Alot of pain that i deeply connect with contained in those lyrics. If anyone else sang them, i think they'd come of as incredibly cheesy. He probably hates his voice too.
He is the band. Those songs are his. He is the complete package. The riffs, the lyrics, the solos are all Alexi. It's all him. You take the picture. And some of its ugly. That's who he IS
Hmm? I’m very surprised you didn’t like these vocals. You liked Rivers of Nihil - The Silent Life and the vocals there are very closely similar to these vocals, almost a match. If you go back to listen to Rivers you will see my point. I loved the Rivers of Nihil reaction as I did this one. Great evening of reactions, keep rocking 🤘🏽
Alexi would be so proud to see you both cuddle during the solo... may he rest in peace.
I'm from Finland just like CoB and all their members are, which is why I've listened to their music since I was a little kid, and I've seen them live a couple times. They are one of my favorite bands among Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Pantera and many more.
I've never been a huge fan of this kind of vocals, but as I've listened to them so much I've grown used to it, I still prefer hearing Bruce or Ozzy sing, for example. For me the thing about CoB is their riffs and melodies, they are extremely talented in that category, especially in their first three albums, from which both of the songs you've reacted to are.
If I'd get to suggest a song from them, it'd be #CoB Downfall, studio version or live in Stockholm in 2006 from the live album "Chaos ridden years", by far their best performance ever.
It is my favorit song. Ever!
I stumbled upon this late, but as to the final question posed, I'd like to share my thoughts.
Alexi Laiho was the lead singer and lead guitarist, and really the driving force behind Children of Bodom. He stepped into the role of vocals reluctantly initially because no one else would. The thing is though, Alexi poured all of his negative energy emotion out through his lyrics and music. If you want interviews with him he was such a sweet, caring guy, always smiling and laughing. And I think that's why. He obviously had his demons, but I believe he came to terms with them by creating the music he did. As you can hear, he was an exceptionally gifted, dare I even say virtuoso guitarist.
For me, metal music is much the same thing. I listen to it to unwind, and to be honest I often crave the darker, heavier and meaner stuff. It soothes the soul so that I can try to be a more positive person on the outside. But above all for me is the music, in particular the guitar. Was Alexi the best vocalist? Nope. Was he even a great vocalist? Nope. But he had so much passion, energy and talent to express through and for his music that I don't even care, honestly. This is especially true if you ever had the pleasure to catch Children of Bodom live. But even just going back and watching live videos of them, it's evident in all of them.
His passing crushed me recently. I felt like a big part of my younger self died with him. His death comes right off the back of my own father passing away in November of last year (2020). Immersing myself in his music again helped me so much in regards to dealing with that grief. And then he passed away himself and it left me gutted. The guy was a legend. I miss him dearly and hate that I'll never get to catch them live every again. I hope this helps to answer the question of why some of us appreciate his music as much as we do. Thanks for uploading this back when you did!
Wow...you fit the mold of a boomer dad-metal fan. Metal has evolved. Also, Slipknot & Cradle of Filth are nowhere near Children of Bodom's level. R.I.P. (Rest in Power) Alexei Laiho...the world will miss you.
Thanks for choosing this guys! Appreciate the honesty. I agree the the vocals arent great but Vocals are a secondary type of thing for me anyway. The music is more important. Please don't write off Children of Bodom because of it. I like to think the vocals for this band act as an alternate line of percussion. As long as you're not trying to find a deep poetic meaning behind it you can think of it as a background gimmick thats second to the actual band's performance.
The most beautiful harmony Alexi has ever written
Bodom's lyrics, especially on the early albums are very dark and depressing. The Writer of those lyrics and the writer of the music, Alexi Laiho, fought with depression and a mild psychosis during his youth. He also tried to kill himself in Stockholm around the time these albums were made, but was saved by his bandmates. I guess that lyrics like these were a sort of outlet for him, a way to try and eject all that inner pain.
I guess that #Vektor Recharging The Void reaction is out then, since singer/2nd-guitarist David DeSanto has that high-pitched black metal screaming style.
Shame, since the music is oh-so good, fantastic guitar work on it.
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#Sabaton The lion from the north
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#InFlames Where the dead ships dwell
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#LynyrdSkynyrd Free bird
#Gojira L'enfant sauvage
#BlueÖysterCult (Don't fear) The Reaper
Really enjoy your reactions.
Keep on keeping on.
Alexi Laiho was a teenager that got hassled by 5 other guys, knife in his troat and so on! This song has a deep subject so his voice is abit more dark then some other songs! Nowadays Allu is totally different and his vocalstyle has changed too.
I love his voice. Death metal and black metal is where I come from. Lol I respect your opinion and Alexi actually never wanted to be the singer. Verrryyyy interesting take though haha
But the vocal fit and goes perfectly with that kind of genre music and i think it unique !
I understand Rich's point of view about the vocals. For instrumental version of COB songs check those:
- Alexi Laiho rips through Are You Dead Yet Live on EMGtv
- Alexi Laiho performs In Your Face Live at EMGtv
- Alexi Laiho performs "Not My Funeral" for EMGtv
Cob !! Perfect! follow the reaper their best album!
Did you get a new camera?
What about a reaction of the whole Follow the Reaper album?
Trust me you won't regret it.
So some background on cobhc if you haven't already done some research. Their lead guitarist Alexi is also the vocalist. From what i remember from an interview, upon the formation of the band nobody wanted to do vocals so he was kinda pushed into the role. That and being a Finnish band they're from the land of black/death metal so that's why the vocals are the way they are.
Alexi was one of those vocalists that i hated too... at first... then after listening... really listening.. he grew on you..
This was children of bodom.. it was how they did it.. EVERYONE tried to get alexi to sing.. he said no.. fuck that.. this is what I WANT.. this is what he wanted the music to sound like.. after it grows on you.. you actually can understand and come to prefer he did it that way..
I was the same way.. i LOVED the music and HATED the vocals.. and then after a few months.. i fell in love with the band.. childen of bodom is what youd call an acquired taste..
Their music is classical melodic death metal.. and without those kinds of vocals.. they would not be that.. RIP Alexi.. the fact he played those savage ass riffs AND sang at the same time.. dude was a fucking legend.. labeled a virtuoso at age 25 by guitar world magazine with the likes of steve vai, Joe satriani... kid was a legend..
#Avantasia - Ghost in the Moon -- I'm from Santiago, Chile.
#ChildrenofBodom Are You Dead Yet? and #ChildrenofBodom Needled 24/7 are 2 you should check out from them. You get used to the vocals when you hear their power. Tucson, AZ. He uses his vocals like a backing instrument. I used to not like vocals like this but his I can tolerate and a lot of their songs are awesome if you can look past them. It’s been a year, try them again!! 🤘🤘
I never listen to their ballads because I don’t feel the vocals work, you have to try their faster, more powerful songs. There are a ton of them and the vocals work with those songs more so than the ballads
Great musically... To answer your mid-song question Rich, the second solo (Janne) was a keyboard ;-) And its okay to not like the style of the vocals... it's an opinion, and you are entitled to it.
The reason I like metal songs with harsh vocals like this, is because they let out my inner screams.
(Hope you guys get around to all the songs I left in your Trivium - Shogun reaction video comments)
You NEED to watch some newer stuff from COB.
Check out Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder ...the solo in that song is insane.
I'm with you...while I dig some of Bodom's tracks (i.e. Follow The Reaper), I've never been fond of Alexi's vocals (and I like various harsh vox).
R.I.P. Alexi
I'm not the biggest CoB fan, but my brother used to listen to them a lot and as far as I can remember the singing was pretty much the same on all songs. By the way it's the lead guitarist that sings as well. In my opinion the singing isn't very different from other harsh vocalists that you have liked (or accepted). Maybe this is more on the snarlier (if that's a word) side? In the end it comes down to personal preference I think, it's the same with clean vocals. There are for example several people that think that Bruce Dickinson sings way to high to be listenable, but to me, and clearly you as well, it's perfect.
Rich your still a lucky Meng!
What about reacting to some neoprog/prog rock??
#Arena Smoke and Mirrors or Opera Fanatica or The Butterfly Man
#Marillion Blind Curve or Neverland or Sugar Mice
#Pendragon Indigo or Breaking the Spell
#IQ Harvest of Souls or Sacred Sound
#KnightArea Dreamweaver or Mastermind
Francesca from Italy
COB was a band that I listened all the time throughout my high school years, but overtime I felt the same way as Rich. I love the instrumentals but the presentation of the lyrical content I don't like very much. Not saying it's bad, it just wasn't for me anymore. I think growling and screaming can be used as an important tool in songs, but here it's just used as the default singing style. It's impressive that Alexi can do that though, keeping up that kind of singing is hard to do properly without ruining your voice. Or at least it's harder than it looks.
One of my personal favourites from COB would probably be Touch Like Angel of Death from the Tokyo Warhearts show in 1999. The song is a little different than the studio version, but awesome.
R.i.p wildchild
Kels and or rich do #Archspire-involuntary doppelganger and I'm from LaGrange GA. Must do the lyric video y'all! You will see why
#DarkTranquillity Monochromatic Stains or Therein. One of the genre defining bands of melodic deathmetal and simply the best after in flames wimped out.
This song to me is the story of Prometheus paying the price of giving fire to man.
It is ok not to like it, since it seems as you respect the band and their music. Perhaps "Under Grass And Clover" (from the newest album). No Instrumental...
#Insomnium : The River - lyrical video, or Lay of the Autumn - lyrical video (or both!). Because you need good Melo-death metal.
From Norway, btw.
Suomi! COB ... next NW ;)
I've been listening to Bodom since the first album came out (actually, kind of checked out after the first three). Alexi's vocals are definitely not the main thing for which the band is known. His vocals sound kind of like "half assed" black metal vocals, definitely not very dark. But it works ok for them. To me, Bodom was kind of like a gateway drug to the heavier stuff out there. I also find a lot of humor in Bodom's material . Who can really take that seriously the overarching reaper theme etc. That's hilarious. And very good.
argieStream So you found them a bit late then. ;)
How can u like the vocals in lake bodom but not on this one? Just asking
You guys may also enjoy Frog Leap Studios (Leo Moracchioli) metal covers. A good intro would be #leomoracchioli Bad Romance #leomoracchioli Baby one more time
#OrangeGoblin Red Tide Rising London UK
I agree rich ... The singer is the guitarist and he should try and sing out of the black metal sound and they would have something..... I notice your badass jackson hanging on the wall.... You would like alexi's guitar line...
You guys are funny, but hey each to their own.
The guy has a swastika on the top of his phone lol
When you find comedy from that you´re lost...
I can understand the dislike of the vocal style. I too was a bit put off from Alexi's vocal when I first got into CoB. But the musical genius in their songs more than makes up for it. In CoB's case, you almost have to just listen to them for the music and think of the vocals as just another instrument.
You guys are duck walking all around the thunder from down under....
You have reacted to bands similar and in the same genre...
Suggestions...
Love hungry man
Night prowler
Spellbound
Riff raff live off if you want blood, you've got it 1978
#ChildrenOfBodom Kissing The Shadows Slovenia
Guys its time for Angels don't kill and sixpounder
I would like you two to listen to DEVILDRIVER gutted video
#childrenofbodom living dead beat.................trust me on this one.
#Cathedral Serpent's Eve Chile.
#PainInTheAsk Everything Is Gonna Be Alright Big Mama Thorton
The singing is kind of standard, when I listen to Children Of Bodom I go for the musicianship rather than anything else, the voice is another instrument.
React to something different... "Poets fo the Fall - Carnival of Rust". It will be playable, just pause it there 'n there :)
Try "Rautamuurahainen" its Finnish pagan music. Music that Laiho studyed.
#Anathema Internal Landscapes Dallas Texas
#watain - the serpent's chalice
#Allegaeon- All Hail Science and I'm from LaGrange GA. Do the Official music video! Beer, Pizza, and METAL Son! Comment on one of my request so I know that you have noticed please. My Birthday was March 26th and I have been trying since to no avail : (
Guys we are humans and humans don't understand what god create
And here is an example u didn't understand what Alexi laiho is doing so i can't blame you ...
It couldn't have been explained better.
@@chaosriddenyears im so angry from this 2 dumbs
Bodom after midnight
Bodom beach terror
Silent night Bodom night
#stam1na Gaian lapsi or Dynamo, Finnish Thrash Metal in finnish!!!
Personally, i didn't like the vocals at first either, jut they grew on me, and looking at the bands full discography, i can safely say it's one of my favourite bands. They don't offer muchmusical variety, but all their albums have their own disrinctive sound even though it doesn't deviate from their style all too much.
#TheTeaParty Psychopomp
#AlienWeaponry Ru Ana Te Whenua London UK
Same guitar brilliancy and same guitarist with different style #Sinergy - Midnight Madness
I think you're taking the CoB vocalist a little bit too seriously!
Cradle of Filth = Comedy?,King Diamond = Light?,Children of Bodom =Dark/Mean/Angry? ..... Hmmm,a long way to go for you for sure ....This is Pop Music comparing to Harsh Noize Industrial Vocals ....for example listen to AUTHOR & PUNISHER or the old Songs of Slogun/Suitcliffe Jügend and you will know what i mean...
I mean, of course people have their own tastes in music and we have our own preferences. But there is a big difference just not liking some band or then on the other hand saying that one doesn`t like a certain METAL song because its so dark and angry, wtf? I would never have thought that someone can think that way, that was really confusing and shocking to hear. Or maybe I was just confusing things, I got the impression from the start of the video that you are some "metalheads", but maybe I understood it wrong.
It’s like food. Some food we really like. Other food is an absolute no because it hits a person very badly in any number of levels. Do you have any food that is absolute no? Or a food or beverage that you tried once but don’t ever want again or at least would pick anything over that particular food/drink if given the choice?
Same thing.
Thoughts?
KnR
It’s like food. Some food we really like. Other food is an absolute no because it hits a person very badly in any number of levels. Do you have any food that is absolute no? Or a food or beverage that you tried once but don’t ever want again or at least would pick anything over that particular food/drink if given the choice?
Same thing.
Thoughts?
KnR
@@Kel.N.RichReactions It`s not the same thing with food.
Essential core things of metal includes brutal, heavy and yes dark and angry stuff too. They just belong to metal like nose to the head. The metal genre has those things build inside of it.
I understand if some hard rock listener for example doesn`t like those elements and prefers to listen hard rock instead of metal due to that.
LIke, there are quite many metal bands that I don`t like due to my personal preferences, but they definitely has those elements included what metal genre has in it, even though I don`t like them.
I mean there is no point to judge a metal song for including those elements that are indeed very essential part of metal.
Dark, mean and angry. Well, that`s what metal is. Of course, there are other elements in metal. But if you can`t handle something that is dark, mean and angry emotionally, how can you be metal listener at all?. Just wondering. We all have some dark sides inside of us don`t we.
I think you guys want to lose some subscribers though... Good call.
There's a big difference between not liking and hating somebody or something ....big guy..
I think they like clean vocals only. Which is fine, you like what you like. They just shouldn´t diminish the vocals like there´s no talent in there. They sounded a bit like non-metalheads usually sound when talking about Metal.
Fleshgod apocalipse=sugar..my opiniom .
#painintheask CoB - Morrigan, Needled 24/7
Oh wow, Rich hates a hard metal sound. Now that's a new thing. I mean props for being the honest genuine people you are but that was unexpected.
Just the vocals. Instruments and all that is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@Kel.N.RichReactions True true, I'd just imagined Kel loudly hating them before Rich. Which is totally fine. Music on a certain level is emotions and those are incredibly personal. It's a good reaction, they don't need to be positive all the time.
What do you expect, this aint wimp metal, its Melodic DEATH metal a EXTREME metal genre not Nightwish bra
Btw if you find this dark and angry, it is supposed to be that way and not "comedy" lmao, who listens to metal for comedy?? you probably would hate death metal and black metal entirely lol
I agree, I hate the vocals but love the music, have said that about COB for years. They could be so much bigger without those vocals
Totally with you dude, so many bands these days have absolute appalling vocals that ruin otherwise fantastic music - the music here was great, awesome infact, but it's hard to listen to with those vocals - imagine a Dio, Dickinson or Halford singing over this, it would be awesome 🤘
It would be awful. Dio etc. is not exactly metal, is too soft to be metal
@Kartellinen utter rubbish, Metal is a much broarder church than you seem to imagine, and it doesn't have to be as Heavy as possible to be Metal - infact the bands that were first categorised as Metal have nothing much in common with the shouty extreme Metal scene of today - so maybe it's those bands that aren't Metal while Dio and the like most definitely are. To use an analogy, would you say that a Model T Ford is not a car because today's car's are different and faster? No. And just to give context, I'm 57 and have been listening to Metal since 1974, and played in numerous Metal bands, so I know my shit.
Metal is heavy mostly. Early Metallica, Megadeth and Sepultura for example are considered metal classics nowadays. Those earlier bands were doing something different that earlier generations (like Beatles etc.) sure. But when Metallica etc. emerged, that was a new era and the actual metal started.
And speaking of age, I am not much younger than you, almost fifty, And have been listening to metal from very young age, since I was something like thirteen years old. I did listen some lighter stuff before that, but my actual metal journey really started when I found out about Metallica at the time.
@Kartellinen Dude, Metal did not start with Metallica, Megadeth, Sepultura etc - have you heard of Black Sabbath? Have you heard of Judas Priest? Iron Maiden, Saxon - so so many Metal bands that pre date the birth of Thrash, which is what you seem to see as the birth of Metal!
@@jimharris367 I have heard those. I listened quite much for example Iron Maiden. It was before me founding Metallica. But it was like "pre metal". Then developed metal metal.
instrumental is fenomenal but vocals well not so much
I see now this is the ANTI-STESUS of metal,,,intrigriging the naive, yet really not metal.real metal is inspireing,,,,yeh boi!!!
IMO, if this band added a vocalist they could really enjoyable. The growling and just poor vocal track is just a major distraction. Balance the great instrumental with an equally talented vocalist and you got a winner!!
Weird O_o i have always considered Alexi very talented vocalist.
Coby- Didn’t mean to rag on the lead singer. For me the growling distracted from a great instrumental track. It’s just my taste and I’m sure many people like yourself love this. It’s all good! Have a great day!
@@randywhite1724 All good, you too.
This is probably the worst entry song to listen to when it comes to Bodom. But frankly you guys should never listen to COB ever again if you can’t appreciate the sound musically and vocally when it is both visionized by Alexi himself for most of the songs. He was both the songwriter and lyrics writer on most of the songs and this is the way he wanted it to sound.