I say they are one of the best anyway, but to be honest I can't think of any other ones. If I sit here long enough perhaps I will come up with something.
Ok, its been a while... I had a cup of tea and a smoke and honestly could only come up with Apolcalytica, which isn't even death metal. Time to step up your game Finland!
you must wear black in the photo shoot
I was first introduced to COB because a friend of mine who shares musical taste with me was sitting with me having his 11th beer or something along those lines and he was wearing a shirt with a crazy design on it.
I said “hey man, the fk is on your shirt?”
he said: “Oh it's Children of Bodom, dude. You should check them out”
And that is how I learned about Children of Bodom. Pretty awesome story huh? This is just one of the many great conversation I had with my Scottish brother and consequently you need to mention a similarly interesting conversation in order to receive an upvote
As it turns out these guys have been ripping it up for over 20 years and I am little disappointed in myself for not ever having heard of them because they are excellent. I will once again, blame it on the fact that I live in SE Asia and we don't hear about these sorts of things but that is a bullcrap statement because everyone has the internet. Therefore I will blame Facebook for melting my brain with drivel and political junk that goes nowhere.
I don't really know how to describe their style, but I will say this: You are just going to have to accept the fact that you can't really understand what the words to the song are. That's kind of part of death metal, in case you hadn't noticed / heard.
In my opinion what makes them so special is their musical arrangements. The guitar solos are just epic, the note progression just hits the perfect notes and its just..... emotional.
I don't know who decided one day that "you know what this really hard metal with all the growling needs? Keyboards!"
I'm sure that guy got laughed at a lot but then over the years it just kind of worked. I love a bit of keyboard thrown into my music plus it is funny to see the keyboard player try to act all hardcore and headbang and what not in the videos (such as the one i posted above.)
Well, see what you think and as always, I welcome your comments / criticism