Children Of Bodom have officially finished their new album. The effort will feature 10 tracks and it is expected to be released in 2019. Bassist Henkka Blacksmith told Metal Mad TV the following:

“It’s done. It’s mixed. It’s mastered, and now we are just getting the artwork done. And then we’ll just wait for it to be ready for the release. And it looks like it’s gonna be next year, so we have to wait a little bit.”

He also added the following when asked about the musical direction, he also added: “It’s always something new. It’s really, really hard for me to say, but it is different.”

[via Blabbermouth]

Children Of Bodom have been in the studio recording their new album, and Alexi Laiho recently discussed the effort during an interview with Metal Hammer. He said the following about the recording process: “We’re actually doing really well — it’s been super-fast so far, so now I am just hoping that everything is going to go smoothly from here onwards.” He also added:

“We do what we always do; we’re always very well prepared when we go in, so I guess this time around we practiced a shit-ton of times, a lot more than we did with the last record, and that’s one of the reasons it’s been going so smoothly.”

As far as the musical direction, he said:

“It’s actually a lot more straightforward as far as song structures go. ‘I Worship Chaos’ was also pretty straightforward, but it’s got more of a rock ‘n’ roll vibe to it. It’s still metal and dark and shit like that, but I’d say it’s more rock ‘n’ roll.”

Children Of Bodom bassist Henkka Seppälä recently chatted with The Salt Lake Tribune and revealed that the band have “almost half” of their new album written. If all goes according to plan, the effort should be released late next year.

Seppälä said the following:

“We’ve been already writing the whole fall, actually. We have almost half the new album. So we’ll go back and do some more new songs. And then, in the spring, we’re gonna start laying the tracks.”

He also added the following when asked about its musical direction:

“I don’t know. It’s always hard. For me, for some reason, I’m incapable of describing any direction that we go. There’s always something new, and it’s always somehow refreshing to me to do the new songs. I’m very, very excited. Very, very excited.”

[via Blabbermouth]