CHILDREN OF BODOM Keyboardist On New WARMEN Album - "Me and Alexi, When We Get Drunk We Listen To LAMBRETTA And PINK; I Asked If I Could Order A Party Song..."

BW&BK scribe Carl Begai recently caught up with CHILDREN OF BODOM keyboardist Janne Wirman to discuss the band's plans for their next album and his new WARMEN record, Japanese Hospitality. An excerpt from the story appears below:

Alexi Laiho makes his presence known once again, having made his Warmen debut on Accept The Fact with a cover of the ‘80s pop hit ‘Somebody’s Watching Me. This time out he sings on one track – the COB flavoured ‘High Heels On Cobblestone’ – and wrote a song at Janne’s request which he doesn’t appear on.

“Alexi wrote the whole song ‘Don’t Bring Her Here’ for Jonna (Kosonen),” reveals Janne. “Me and Alexi, when we get drunk we like to listen to Lambretta and Pink, and one day I asked Alexi if I could order a Lambretta-type of party song for Jonna (laughs). He came up with ‘Don’t Bring Her Here’ and I think it’s pretty fucking cool. It was never meant to be a Bodom song, though; it was custom made for Jonna and Warmen.”

Japanese Hospitality also features what ranks as some of the fastest leads of Janne’s career on the instrumental ‘Switcheroo’. Jens Johansson, eat your heart out.

“Yeah, well, I have footage of me and my brother rehearsing it up to tempo, and dude… we thought we could pull it off and soon realized that the thing was way too fast (laughs). We had to rehearse our asses off to make that thing happen. We did a demo version but we didn’t really try to see if we could play at that tempo, then we recorded the drums at the real tempo for the track, went back to the studio to do the leads and were fucked because the tempo was way too high (laughs).”

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