Blooddrunk

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Blooddrunk
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Studio album by
Children of Bodom
Released7 April 2008 [1]
RecordedOctober–December 2007
Studio
  • Petrax Studio
  • Finnvox
Genre
Length36:49
Label Spinefarm
Producer Mikko Karmila
Children of Bodom chronology
Chaos Ridden Years
(2006)		Blooddrunk
(2008)		 Skeletons in the Closet
(2009)
Singles from Blooddrunk
  1. "Blooddrunk"
    Released: 27 February 2008
  2. "Hellhounds on My Trail"
    Released: 9 June 2008
  3. "Smile Pretty for the Devil"
    Released: 14 November 2008
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
IGN 8.2/10 [6]
Revolver Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [7]

Blooddrunk is the sixth studio album by Finnish melodic death metal band Children of Bodom, released on 7 April 2008 through Spinefarm Records. The album includes a re-recorded version single for "Tie My Rope". Various editions feature one or two cover songs as bonus tracks. The limited edition digipak version of the album includes a bonus DVD with 5.1 surround mixes of all songs and the video and making-of for "Blooddrunk". It sold 20,000 copies during its first week of release. [8]

Contents

The band recorded a cover of the Suicidal Tendencies song "War Inside My Head" during the recording sessions for this album, but the song was not released on Blooddrunk. [9] The song was released on the cover album Skeletons in the Closet together with two new covers plus some old ones as well. The song "Done With Everything, Die For Nothing" is a playable song in Guitar Hero 5 , which some players consider to be one of the game's harder songs. The album includes more thrash metal than its predecessors.

Production

While writing and recording the album, Alexi Laiho had stated he felt very aggressive, and as a consequence the songs would be faster and "thrashier" than the songs displayed on their previous release, Are You Dead Yet? . He notified fans, however, that certain parts of the album would also be more progressive, as heard on "LoBodomy". The lyrics cover similar territory as previous releases.

Release

The first single was the title track, which was released in Finland on 27 February 2008 and features the cover song "Lookin' Out My Back Door" as a B-side. The videos for "Blooddrunk" and "Hellhounds on My Trail" were shot in Berlin, Germany, in December 2007. Blooddrunk entered the Billboard 200 at number 22, making it the band's highest charted album thus far in their career, and the third highest death or black metal recording chart in the USA, just behind Dethklok's debut The Dethalbum and second album Dethalbum II . [10]

The band streamed "Blooddrunk" on their MySpace page a week before its release.

The album went gold in Finland on pre-orders alone, and topped the Finnish charts beating its nearest rival in sales by 7 to 1.[ citation needed ] But the album did have a reasonably negative reaction from their long-term fans, many of which disliked the band's new sound and style.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Alexi Laiho except where noted

No.TitleLength
1."Hellhounds on My Trail"4:00
2."Blooddrunk"4:05
3."LoBodomy" (Alexi Laiho, Kimberly Goss)4:25
4."One Day You Will Cry"4:05
5."Smile Pretty for the Devil"3:54
6."Tie My Rope"4:14
7."Done with Everything, Die for Nothing"3:31
8."Banned from Heaven"5:05
9."Roadkill Morning"3:33
Japanese version bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
1."Ghostriders in the Sky" (Stan Jones cover)3:37
2."Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" (Mickey Newbury cover)2:38
UK bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
1."Ghostriders in the Sky" (Stan Jones cover)3:37
2."Lookin' out My Back Door" (Creedence Clearwater Revival cover)2:08
3."Aces High" (Iron Maiden cover)4:28

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2008)Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart [11] 48
Austrian Albums Chart [12] 19
Belgium Albums Chart [13] 93
Finnish Albums Chart [14] 1
French Albums Chart [15] 161
German Albums Chart [16] 10
Italian Albums Chart [17] 65
Japanese Albums Chart [18] 12
Netherlands Albums Chart [19] 94
Norway Albums Chart [20] 25
Swedish Albums Chart [21] 28
Swiss Albums Chart [22] 50
UK Albums Chart [23] 44
US Billboard 200 [24] 22
US Hard Rock Albums [25] 3

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