CHILDREN OF BODOM - Australian Tour Dates Confirmed For November

Finland's CHILDREN OF BODOM have confirmed their return to Australia as part of their Ugly World Tour for their latest release, Relentless Reckless Forever. Perth-based VOYAGER have been confirmed as support for the tour.

Dates are as follows:

November
6 - Capitol - Perth
7 - HQ - Adelaide
10 - The Palace - Melbourne
12 - The Big Top - Sydney
13 - The Arena - Brisbane

Tickets go on sale starting August 11th.
 

Following is an excerpt from BW&BK's interview with frontman Alexi Laiho, conducted earlier this year:

Laiho and his bandmates insist that Reckless Relentless Forever isn’t an intentional back-to-the-roots effort, but one has to wonder if shoving keyboardist Janne Wirman back to the front of the bus was done to shut people up.

“(Laughs) Yeah, well, I suppose at the end of the day we wanted to put the keys back in there just to keep them happy. The thing is, funnily enough, people don’t realize we actually had more keyboards on Bloooddrunk that we ever did before. There just weren’t on the surface or as obvious as on Hate Crew Deathroll or Follow The Reaper. They were always there, but it was more like different sounds doubling the guitar riffs here and there. And of course there are the strings and melodies. It wasn’t intentional or thought out beforehand, but this time around I think the keyboards are a mixture between the old school COB and us coming up with a bunch of crazy new sounds and ideas we’d never used before.”

“This album just came out the way it did, we didn’t push it in one direction of another,” he adds. “As far as the sounds go, me and Janne spent a shitload of hours trying to find one sound (laughs). They’re all unique, and this is how things worked out this time.”

Click here for the complete interview.