I Worship Chaos

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I Worship Chaos
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Studio album by
Children of Bodom
Released2 October 2015
Recorded2015
StudioDanger Johnny Studios, Helsinki, Finland
Genre Melodic death metal [1]
Length44:26
Label Nuclear Blast
Producer
Children of Bodom chronology
Halo of Blood
(2013)		I Worship Chaos
(2015)		 Hexed
(2019)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Blabbermouth.net 6/10 [4]
MetalSucks Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [5]

I Worship Chaos is the ninth studio album by Finnish melodic death metal band Children of Bodom. It was released on 2 October 2015. [6] It is the first album since 2005's Are You Dead Yet not to feature guitarist Roope Latvala due to his firing from the band in May 2015, making this the band's first album as a four-piece group with Alexi Laiho handling all guitar duties.

Contents

For the first time, the band did not use a commercial recording studio. Instead they opted to use a converted warehouse to enhance the ambiance of the sound. [7]

In this album, the band used drop B tuning on most of the album and D-flat tuning on the songs "Hold Your Tongue" and "Suicide Bomber" instead of drop C tuning and D standard used on previous albums. This also makes this the first album since Something Wild to use D-flat tuning.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Alexi Laiho

No.TitleLength
1."I Hurt"4:29
2."My Bodom (I Am the Only One)"4:19
3."Morrigan"5:07
4."Horns"3:25
5."Prayer for the Afflicted"4:55
6."I Worship Chaos"3:40
7."Hold Your Tongue"4:02
8."Suicide Bomber"3:34
9."All for Nothing"5:43
10."Widdershins"5:12
Total length:44:26
Japanese edition bonus track
No.TitleLyricsLength
11."Cruel Summer" (Bananarama cover)
3:05
Total length:47:31
Deluxe edition bonus track
No.TitleLyricsLength
11."Mistress of Taboo" (Plasmatics cover)
3:38
12."Danger Zone" (Kenny Loggins cover)
2:58
13."Black Winter Day" (Amorphis cover)
  • traditional
3:42
Total length:54:44

Personnel

Children of Bodom
Production
Guest performers

Charts

Chart (2015)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [9] 69
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [10] 36
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [11] 101
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [12] 49
Canadian Albums (Billboard) [13] 21
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [14] 1
French Albums (SNEP) [15] 74
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [16] 20
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ) [17] 31
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [18] 26
US Billboard 200 [19] 92
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [20] 11
US Top Album Sales (Billboard) [21] 48
US Top Hard Rock Albums (Billboard) [22] 11
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [23] 21

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