Skeletons out of the closet

Children Of Bodom have revealed the two new cover songs recorded at Janne Warman's Beyond Abilities studios earlier this summer for their upcoming covers compilation album, "Skeletons In The Closet". The tracks are "Hell Is For Children" (Pat Benatar) and "Antisocial" (Trust/Anthrax). In his summer blog, Henkka commented that "the songs turned out really good". The album is due for a worldwide release this fall. The full tracklists for the different regions are as follows:

Europe

01 "Lookin' Out My Back Door" (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
02 "Hell Is For Children" (Pat Benatar)*
03 "Somebody Put Something In My Drink" (Ramones)
04 "Mass Hypnosis" (Sepultura)
05 "Don´t Stop At The Top" (Scorpions)
06 "Silent Scream" (Slayer)
07 "She Is Beautiful" (Andrew W.K.)
08 "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" (Kenny Rogers)
09 "Bed Of Nails" (Alice Cooper)
10 "Hellion" (W.A.S.P.)
11 "Aces High" (Iron Maiden)
12 "Rebel Yell" (Billy Idol)
13 "No Commands" (Stone)
14 "Antisocial" (Trust/Anthrax)*
15 "Talk Dirty To Me" (Poison)
16 "War Inside My Head" (Suicidal Tendencies)**
17 "Ooops!… I Did It Again" (Britney Spears)

USA

01 "Lookin' Out My Back Door" (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
02 "Hell Is For Children" (Pat Benatar)*
03 "Somebody Put Something In My Drink" (Ramones)
04 "Mass Hypnosis" (Sepultura)
05 "Don´t Stop At The Top" (Scorpions)
06 "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" (Kenny Rogers)
07 "Hellion" (W.A.S.P.)
08 "Aces High" (Iron Maiden)
09 "Rebel Yell" (Billy Idol)
10 "No Commands" (Stone)
11 "Antisocial" (Trust/Anthrax)
12 "Talk Dirty To Me" (Poison)
13 "Ghost Riders In The Sky" (Stan Jones)
14 "War Inside My Head" (Suicidal Tendencies)**
15 "Ooops!… I Did It Again" (Britney Spears)

Japan

01 "Lookin' Out My Back Door" (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
02 "Hell Is For Children" (Pat Benatar)*
03 "Somebody Put Something In My Drink" (Ramones)
04 "Don´t Stop At The Top" (Scorpions)
05 "Silent Scream" (Slayer)
06 "She Is Beautiful" (Andrew W.K.)
07 "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" (Kenny Rogers)
08 "Bed Of Nails" (Alice Cooper)
09 "Aces High" (Iron Maiden)
10 "Antisocial" (Trust/Anthrax)*
11 "Talk Dirty To Me" (Poison)
12 "Ghost Riders In The Sky" (Stan Jones)
13 "War Inside My Head" (Suicidal Tendencies)**
14 "Ooops!… I Did It Again" (Britney Spears)

*previously unreleased track recorded at Beyond Abilities studios, summer 2009
**previously unreleased track recorded at Petrax studios, fall 2007

Needled 24/7

Children Of Bodom's summer festival season continues, with the band turning in their expected crowd-pleasing performances. But even for the well-oiled machine that is the Hate Crew, not everything always goes to plan.

At Metalway in Spain a very late slot, coupled with the forces of nature, conspired to make things difficult: an extremely strong wind meant that just staying upright and not being blown offstage was a challenge throughout the band's set; at the Metaltown festival in Sweden, technical problems gave COB's sound tech, Kal (K-Man) Kaercher, plenty of pro-level headaches, and at Graspop last weekend glitches in Janne's keyboard rack caused more grief for the band's crew. But the show must go on, and it did: in K-Man's words, "I haven't seen a crowd that crazy in a long time". Check out Kal's blog at http://web.me.com/kmancobhc/Site/Blathering/Blathering.html for all the details.

Horns up for Ruisrock!