Something Wild (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Something Wild
Type = studio
Artist = Children of Bodom


Released = November 1997
Recorded = July — August, 1997
Genre = Melodic death metal
Black metal
Symphonic metal
Neo-classical,
Length = 36:00
Label = Spinefarm Records
Nuclear Blast
Producer = Anssi Kippo and Children of Bodom
Reviews =
*Allmusic rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7tjqoauaiijp link] "
*The Metal Observer rating|8.5|10 [http://www.metal-observer.com/articles.php?lid=1&sid=1&id=3465 link]
Last album =
This album = "Something Wild"
(1997)
Next album = "Hatebreeder"
(1999)

"Something Wild" is the debut album by the Finnish melodic death metal band Children of Bodom, released in 1997.

The album presents a darker and generally more experimental sound than the one present in their later albums, and contributed most to the infamous genre controversy of their classification as a death metal or black metal band at the time (in an interview, Darkthrone's Fenriz was asked on what he felt about "so-called black metal bands like Cradle of Filth and Children of Bodom, to which Fenriz replied that he "hadn't heard CoB", and that he had "no comment" about Cradle of Filth); obviously a lot of black metal was present due to Alexi Laiho's stint in Impaled Nazarene and his self-professed "roots being in black metal". It was held in high praise amongst metal fans in the Finnish underground metal scene at the time, topping charts all over the country, and sparking their international fame everywhere in the underground metal scene as "That metal band from Finland."Fact|date=August 2007 The song-writing in this album is much more free-flowing and the use of keyboards and strong neo-classical metal influences are much more prevalent than in future releases such as "Hatebreeder" or "Follow the Reaper", mixed in with elements of melodic death metal, black metal, and extreme power metal. The "Deluxe Edition" was released much later in 2002 and includes bonus material.

Original Track listing

# "Deadnight Warrior" – 3:22
# "In the Shadows" – 6:01
# "Red Light in My Eyes, Part 1" – 4:28
# "Red Light in My Eyes, Part 2" – 3:50
# "Lake Bodom" – 4:02
# "The Nail" – 6:18
# "Touch Like Angel of Death" (with hidden keyboard solo) – 7:47
# "Bruno the Pig" (untitled hidden track) – 0:10

Deluxe Edition Bonus Tracks

* "Silent Scream" (Slayer cover) - 3:17
* "Don't Stop at the Top" (Scorpions cover) - 3:24
* "Mass Hypnosis" (Sepultura cover) - 4:07

The 2008 edition of the album does contain the hidden keyboard solo that was originally at the end of "Touch Like Angel of Death", but it is at the end of the bonus song "Mass Hypnosis". It still, however, does not contain the hidden track "Bruno the Pig".

Album information

* All music and lyrics by A. Laiho.
* Produced by A. Kippo, A. Laiho, J. Raatikainen and Children of Bodom.
* Recorded and Mixed at Astia Studio by Anssi Kippo in July/August 1996.
* Cover artwork by Graham French.

Trivia

* The CD booklet contains the lyrics to the CD's last song, "Touch Like Angel of Death". The hidden keyboard song on track 7 is from the television show Miami Vice and was performed by Alexi Laiho and Alexander Kuoppala while they were drunk in the studio.
* The opening of the song "Deadnight Warrior" is a sound clip from the TV adaptation of Stephen King's "It."
* The opening of the song "The Nail" is extracted from the movies "Ben-Hur" (speech) and "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (sound).
*The intro of "Red Light In My Eyes Part 1" Is J.S. Bach's Invention 13
* The intro of "Red Light in My Eyes, Part 2" is the first theme from Mozart's Symphony No. 25, and the song's refrain uses the first few bars of the "Confutatis" section of Mozart's Requiem.
* A riff in "The Nail" is one of the themes from J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565, and the last few measures in the song's cadence closely resembles the cadence from Yngwie Malmsteen's "Far Beyond The Sun".
* The verse riff of "In The Shadows" closely resembles the first and main riff in Darkthrone's Transilvanian Hunger.
* In the original version of the album, there is a hidden 8th track called "Bruno the Pig." It is just 10 seconds of silence.

Credits

*Alexi Laiho - Vocals/Lead guitar
*Alexander Kuoppala - Rhythm guitar
*Janne Warman - Keyboards
*Henkka Seppälä - Bass
*Jaska Raatikainen - Drums

References