CHILDREN OF BODOM DON’T HAVE AN ALBUM, BUT THEY HAVE A RELEASE DATE

Children of Bodom only just entered a studio in their native Finland to record their follow-up to 2005’s excellent Are You Dead Yet?, but their label, Spinefarm Records, has already announced the new album’s release date: April 7, 2008 (so, presumably, April 8, 2008 here in the States – unless they learned nothing from the debacle that was the month-apart release dates for DevilDriver’s The Last Kind Words), with the first single to drop on March 3.

Of course, if something goes wrong, the label can always move the date – but still, announcing the release date so far in advance clearly shows what high hopes Spinefarm have for this album. You don’t do something like this unless you want your album to be a true Event with a capital “E.”

Question is: can the album live up to the hype? Guess we’ll find out in April.

-AR