Although I would not be an amateur of Children of bodom, I enjoy myself sometimes to listen to this Hate Crew Deathroll.
Children has this characteristic which I often seek at a group which is not to change his style, his topics and so on, but just to have new compositions: Objective achieved with this album. The Finns are back with a Metal with Maiden influences and light Scandinaves influences. As of the first piece, Needled 24/7, we find all these elements and an energy to raise mountains. All is varied, the riffs, the battery the keyboards... With the famous Sixpounder we fall into heavier Metal with very supported riffs and keyboards filled up from the heart Scandinave. The titles are enchainent perfectly, varying the melodies and the riffs, easily from heavy to speed while passing by some keys of melancoly and always these sonorities of keyboard suitable for Children but which, this time, are omnipresent and leave the place to other sonorities what is far from being an evil!
A good album which can easily like as it can easily leave indifferent.