Something Wild (album)

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Something Wild
Something Wild cover
Studio album by Children of Bodom
Released February 16, 1997
Recorded July-August, 1996
Genre Power metal
Melodic death metal
Length 36:00
Label Spinefarm Records
Nuclear Blast
Producer(s) Children of Bodom
Professional reviews
Children of Bodom chronology
Something Wild
(1997)		 Hatebreeder
(1999)


Something Wild is a musical album released in 1997 by Finnish melodic death metal band Children of Bodom.

The album, which is Children of Bodom's debut, presents a darker and generally more experimental sound than the one present in their later albums, and contributed most to the infamous genre controversy of their classification as a black metal band at the time. It was held in high praise amongst metalheads everywhere in the Finnish underground metal scene at the time, topping charts all over the country, and sparking their international fame everywhere in the underground metal scene as "That metal band from Finland". The song-writing in this album is much more free-flowing and the use of keyboards and strong neo-classical metal influences are much more prevalent than in future releases such as Hatebreeder or Follow the Reaper. The "Deluxe Edition" was released much later in 2002 and includes bonus material.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Deadnight Warrior" – 3:21
  2. "In the Shadows" – 6:01
  3. "Red Light in My Eyes, Pt. 1" – 4:28
  4. "Red Light in My Eyes, Pt. 2" – 3:50
  5. "Lake Bodom" – 4:01
  6. "The Nail" – 6:17
  7. "Touch Like Angel of Death" – 7:49
  8. "Bruno the Pig" [Hidden Track] – 0:10
  9. "Untitled" [Bonus Track] - 5:07
  10. "Mass Hypnosis" (Sepultura cover) [Bonus Track] - 4:04

[edit] Credits

[edit] Album information

All music and lyrics by A. Laiho & A. Kuoppala and the Children of Bodom leads.
Produced by A. Kippo, A. Laiho, J. Raatikainen and Children of Bodom.
Recorded and Mixed at Astia Studio by Anssi Kippo in July/August 1996.
Cover artwork by Flea Black.

[edit] Trivia

The CD booklet contains the lyrics to the CD's last song, "Touch Like Angel of Death". The hidden keyboard song on track 7 is from the television show Miami Vice and was performed by Alexi Laiho and Alexander Kuoppala while they were drunk in the studio.

The only song on this CD that actually has lyrics is "Touch Like Angel of Death". The rest were all made up on the spot by Alexi during the recording process.[citation needed]

The opening of the song "Deadnight Warrior" is a sound clip from the TV adaptation of Stephen King's "It".

The opening of the song "The Nail" is extracted from the movie Ben-Hur.

The intro of "Red Light in My Eyes Part 2" is the first theme from Mozart's Symphony No. 25. A passage from Mozart's Requiem is later used in the same song.

The intro speech for "The Nail" is taken from "Nightmare On Elm Street 2".

In the original version of the album, there is a hidden 8th track called "Bruno the Pig". It is just 10 seconds of silence.

Most COB albums use guitars tuned one step down(D,G,C,F,A,D) yet this album uses guitars one and one and a half steps down(C#,F#,B,E,G#,C#).

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