I still throw on Follow the Reaper from time to time. Band was fun when I was in high school, got me deeper into heavy music at that age.

I still think the intro to Needled 24/7 is nearly perfect. That build up, then the screaming guitar, moving into that riff. FUCK!

If I had to credit a singular moment for getting me into metal it would be hearing the Needled 24/7 intro for the first time.

If I had to credit a singular moment for getting me into metal it would be hearing the Needled 24/7 intro for the first time.

I only ever listened to Metallica until I heard the intro to Needled 24/7. I can still see where I was standing some 20 years ago when I first heard it - I knew it was what I had been looking for my whole life.

Follow the Reaper is still my favorite with Kissing the Shadows being the best song of theirs, hands down.

I didn't like CoB at first. They were already beginning to make a name for themselves when I first heard them in 2000/2001 with 'Follow the Reaper' and I found them too clean and too polished. And then I listened to their earlier albums. I particularly enjoyed 'Hatebreeder' and 'Bed of Razors' was the song that really converted me and made a fan.

Hatecrew Deathroll was their last great album for me. I stopped listening to them after it. I was lucky enough to have seen CoB perform here in the Philippines back in 2014.

Fave songs from The Reaper?

My first exposure to CoB and still my favorite from them. Love the big Pantera influence it added (that "Rise" homage in the title track sure is overt), impressive how they made it gel so well.

What do u guys think of it? The band in general? favorite tracks (not just from this record but overall)

Good day,
Greg.

Awful album. Gave it away.
I'll stick with the first 3 albums. Glad I saw them live touring Follow the Reaper

I remember feeling like Hate Crew was a bit of a sellout album at the time, but in retrospect I think it holds up extremely well. The riffs are very well written and the production is awesome, especially for the era. Giving their sound a slice of thrash and groove really did a lot to make things heavier and more well rounded.

I fell off of Bodom after Are You Dead Yet, but those first 4-5 albums are really something special. It is hard to understate how much influence the band had on metal of the era and bringing technicality and shred guitar into more extreme metal.

Fantastic album, my favorite along with Are You Dead Yet? The production is just superb. Since COB is one of the most important bands for me, I can listen to HCD or any of their albums any time and enjoy the heck out out of it, even after having listened to their stuff a million times.

Laiho was insanely talented, that goes without saying. Master songwriter and riffmachine. Too bad it had to end the way it did for him.

Love the Pantera-style riffs of this particular album.

Love this album. Their first 4 albums is all you need from them.

This band was important for young me getting into metal and I still listen out of nostalgia every once in awhile after some drinks. It's interesting looking back on it how strangely unique CoB was. There really isn't any band that sounds quite like them. You have Kalmah, Wintersun, Skyforger, Norther, and all of them. But they never were EXACTLY like CoB. There was sort of a bit of almost campiness to CoB that other bands lacked. While a band like Norther might be kind of close, CoB had a completely different energy. Seeing them live was sort of like seeing a weird death metal hair band. They were playing death metal but with the energy of Motley Crue. They'd be ripping solos while pouring beers into each others mouths, slamming shots, covering each others eyes, playing each others instruments. Drum solos. Keyboard and guitar jams. Their shows were quite something. I mean Laiho admittedly loved hair metal, and I think it came through in their live shows and even in their recordings in how they are so flashy. Other bands come close to their sound, but they didn't have the glam energy which I think set them apart. Bodom were a party band, which you can't say about Wintersun of Kalmah.