Follow the Reaper

[Follow the Reaper] 封面依然是个拿镰刀的黑斗篷的人，但这张专辑的音乐是叫人赞叹的，几乎可以叫无懈可击，从录音到编排，从演唱到演奏，我们看到Children Of Bodom终于形成了自己的风格。这一次他们是在著名的The Abyss录音，但是我们听到这张专辑并没有被Peter个人所影响（因为我们看到很多乐队从Abyss出来以后变成了一个模样…），还依然是Children Of Bodom自己的声音，而且更加地完美，作为一张重金属专辑，这是十分优秀的一张。

by Brian O'Neill

Black metal with the happiest keyboards the genre has ever seen, yet still uncompromisingly brutal. "Children of Decadence" could be Emerson, Lake & Palmer, for the love of Beelzebub; such is the level of complexity and prominence of synthesizers. The frightening Finnish fivesome does a nice job of mixing up tempos on this, the band's third studio disc, and manages to keep up the intensity in spite of (or maybe because of) the aural auditory mood swings. You won't even recognize the bonus track cover "Hellion," and it doesn't even matter.