Children Of Bodom took a train after Wacken to film the third promotional video for Blooddrunk. The choice of the song was maybe a bit surprising – the first track the band composed for the album, Smile Pretty For The Devil – as it was never played live before the on-going US tour. Sandra Marschner & Katapult Filmproduktion led the band to a landfill in Germany where the video takes place. This relatively low budgeted video has no fancy plots, just a few mummies fooling around and nice looking effects.
Alexi comments on the Headbanger’s Blog: “Smile Pretty for the Devil is definitely my favorite COB video in a long time because the setting is completely different that anything we’ve ever done. Having shot almost every video in a big hall before, this one has a new, fresh atmosphere in it. And this time, trying something different didn’t backfire, which is always a risk.”
Director Sandra Marschner adds: “For “Smile Pretty For The Devil,” the open cast mine was a perfect location. With the band standing in a big and wide open space, it could be anywhere, anytime. Children of Bodom reached the set sitting in the shovel of a construction vehicle! But they were not alone in the sandpit. Two mummies were woken up by the performance (”Five times I’ve died it’s all the same”)! The cast was totally wrapped in gauze bandages, so it was not possible for them to go to the toilet for hours (but who knows, the bandages were sand-colored, yellow…). While shooting with haze and clouds of smoke it must have looked like a big fire, because five fire engines came to our location! Then we were shooting with sand explosions, which are very loud. With firing the bombs, everyone was shrugging a bit except Roope – he showed no reaction at all. Cool boy!”
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Melodic death metal (also referred to as melodeath) is a subgenre of death metal. Some bands have formed their own title, dubbed Gothenburg metal named for the region it originated in. Originally the genre combined the harmony style and groove melodies of heavy metal with the harsh thrashing sound and vocals of death metal. Later the genre evolved due to many different influences, a notable evolution in the genre being the addition of keyboards
Melodic death metal contains more melodic guitar riffs, melodic solos, and acoustic guitar work than death metal. It also contains more comprehensible lyrics with death growl vocals. The pioneers of melodic death metal include In Flames, Carcass, Dark Tranquillity and At the Gates. Sentenced is also sometimes credited as one of the first melodic death metal bands with their release of North from Here. Some melodic death metal bands from the Scandinavian region combine the genre with other metal genres such as viking metal (e.g. Amon Amarth), progressive metal (e.g. Into Eternity), power metal (e.g. Children of Bodom), symphonic metal (e.g. Eternal Tears of Sorrow), thrash metal (e.g. Slayer and to a lesser extent Arch Enemy), doom metal (e.g. Swallow the Sun) and folk metal (e.g.Eluveitie).
In the late 1990s, many melodic death metal bands changed their style of playing by adding more melodic elements; more melodic choruses and riffs and making more prominent use of keyboards. Also many melodic death metal bands moved away from the lyrical themes of death, gore, and murder common in other death metal groups.
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