Children of Bodom Hexed
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Shredgazmo
March 14th 2019


41 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Scheumke, sorry for being Ageist. Have you checked out their earlier albums?

Scheumke
March 14th 2019


2633 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I know most of their earlier material. Used to listen to them quite a lot back in the day. Never the full albums though. Back in the day I downloaded a collection of songs from their first albums (on kazaa, good old times lol) and had that in my playlist. Songs like 'Bed of Razors' 'Every Time I Die' and 'Needled 24/7' were quite popular with our group of friends.

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
March 14th 2019


60534 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Those three are all hard jams

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
March 14th 2019


60534 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

But there's nothing quite like a start to finish listen of Hatebreeder

TheTripP
March 14th 2019


4516 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

amen buddy^^^

WretchedCacophony
March 14th 2019


2990 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

The vocal effects on Needled are awful... I never understood why they did that

alamo
March 14th 2019


5575 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

they're really cool actually

TheDudeShreds
March 14th 2019


14 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Another great record.

Gmork89
March 14th 2019


8677 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

This is pretty fun, kind of a throwback, I dig it.

CaliggyJack
March 14th 2019


10040 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

This is seriously fucking good

TheTripP
March 14th 2019


4516 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Their best in a good while! And great album art

NXIVM
March 15th 2019


88 Comments


this band is still a thing?

SirArian
March 16th 2019


6 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Most consistent album since Follow the Reaper.

Bfhurricane
March 17th 2019


6283 Comments


Possibly their best album since Hatecrew Death Roll.

I loved Halo of Blood and gained a newborn hope for the future of this band. But I wasn’t a huge fan of I Worship Chaos, and frankly wrote them off. It wasn’t a bad album, just too generic and unimaginative.

But this... this I like. Back to a focus on melody, harmonics, keyboards, and melodic death metal basics. Will need to listen a few more times before a rating, but I’m loving it.

JohnFire
March 17th 2019


887 Comments


"the songs aren’t as catchy as their older material, especially in the vocal department. Where their older ‘hits’ are full with sing along choruses, on Hexed I found there is not a single chorus that really sticks."

THIS. It's a good album, but damn, the vocals are so dull. There's not a single line I remember from the entire record.
Glass Houses is their best song in 15 years though.

TheClansman95
March 17th 2019


2510 Comments


gotta make an opinion of my own asap

InFlamesWeThrash666
March 17th 2019


10560 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Agreed that album lacks vocal hooks



Everything else is on point though so it remains a very good listen

Bfhurricane
March 18th 2019


6283 Comments


On Platitudes and Barren Words, the riff at 2:40 onward is just nasty. Was surprised to hear the bass jump out for this sequence too. As I write this, the inter-vocal riffs of Hexed just came on and harken back to old Bodom. And this ending... solid bass. Love it.

Speaking of bass, I remember seeing Bodom in 2008, and their bassist was clearly the most bored guy on stage. Like, motionless. The band even choreographed synchronized headbangs at one point, and while Alexi @ Co. thrashed their beautifully long Finnish hear, that dude just kind of nodded his head.

There's no point to that story, other than pointing out the most bored guy at the whole show happened to be in the band.



Eakflanderyof
March 18th 2019


5480 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Platitudes is the best song they've had since FTR. And that drum solo in say never look back is tasty

Whispered4tw
March 18th 2019


931 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

the break part in Say Never Look Back is so satisfying



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