Video: Children Of Bodom - Oops I Did It Again!

I spend a disproportionate amount of my music budget on covers, both single tracks through downloading services and 'Tribute to' collections. Those compilation CDs frequently go for dirt-cheap in used CD bins; all the easier to purchase en masse. My rule of thumb is: if said collection has one cover by a band I already like, I will buy it. This attitude seems abnormal. Though some of metal's finest sport cover albums in their catalog, the cover remains an underappreciated art form. Disdain is the accepted reaction to covers in the blogosphere and the magazine pantheon, especially for [...]

Meet Janne Wirman, virtuoso metal keyboardist; leader of Warmen, former collaborator with Masterplan and Kotipelto, and full-time melody man for Finnish heavyweights Children Of Bodom. As 2012 dawned, so too did the band's 15th anniversary, which - despite last year's acclaimed "Relentless Reckless Forever" - prompted a retrospective live setlist o... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com