CHILDREN OF BODOM — Follow the Reaper (review)

CHILDREN OF BODOM — Follow the Reaper album cover Album · 2000 · Melodic Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
Warthur
As far as Children of Bodom's stuff go, it seems like many would peg either this one or Hatebreeder as their favourite. For my part, whilst I wasn't too impressed by Hatebreeder, I think Follow the Reaper has just enough of an improvement over it to win me over. It's still a melodic mashup of power metal and death metal, mind, but I think on this album Children of Bodom juggle those two extremely different styles with much more finesse, so the power metal bits don't seem to trip up the death metal parts and the death meal parts better support the power metal aspects. I'd never call it a top-tier classic, but it's entertaining enough.
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