It’s very melodic but also has this very catchy chorus, with early black metal vibes almost like Dimmu Borgir. It took a while to really arrange and we looked at a lot of different options. “I think this was my favourite track as it was the first we assembled as a band. It was intense, learning all those parts in such a small timeframe!”Ĭan you talk us through the three tracks you recorded, starting with Paint The Sky With Blood itself… From there we could complete a lo-fi demo that we could use as a guideline. Although, that did mean the writing and rehearsing was the most intense part of the session! Alexi would come along with ideas for basically everything, which then meant the band had to work fast to learn everything as quickly as possible. It was probably the smoothest session I ever had though – so much of the work we needed to do had already been completed in our rehearsal space. “Not really any – they were all Alexi’s, you know? He brings the riffs and melodies, then the band can put input in the arrangements side and suggest fills or whatever. How much songwriting input did you have in the Bodom After Midnight material?
Only time would tell how that could have been – now we’ll never know.” We wanted to make it as big as we could – not just to be a solo project by Alexi, but a whole new band. “It was meant to be Bodom Mark II – a successor for the band. What was the vision for Bodom After Midnight? Bodom After Midnight felt just right – it ticked every box.” We didn’t come up with the name until after the final show, sometime early last year. He told me he wanted me for his next band, would I be interested? I was just like ‘fuck yeah!’ The other guys were going their own separate ways anyway, so he really was the only option at that point in terms of carrying on to make more music. I was so relieved when he called me – he was just like ‘I don’t wanna stop anything – I’ll keep going until I’m in the grave’. “When the decision was first made, I’d been told Alexi was also stopping. Was the plan always to continue making music with Alexi? It didn’t feel so final at the time – it wasn’t until afterwards it really started to sink in.” “It’s funny it didn’t feel like a last show! It was like any other show and everybody had their usual routines before and after, with maybe an even bigger afterparty. Daniel FreybergĬhildren of Bodom played their last ever show at the Helsinki Ice Rink on Decem– what was the atmosphere like at that show? We didn’t know if people would just look at us as the diet Children Of Bodom.
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