Ultimate-Guitar.com recently caught up with CHILDREN OF BODOM frontman Alexi Laiho to discuss his early years, guitars, and the band's new album, Relentless Reckless Forever. An excerpt is available below.

Q: You do a cover of Eddie Murphy’s 'Party All The Time'. What drew you to the idea of doing a cover of an R&B; song like that one?

Laiho: "Doing stupid-ass covers is one of our favorite hobbies. Eddie Murphy and Rick James are f-cking awesome. Have you seen the video for that one? That was looping over and over one night when we were partying. I think our bass player was like, 'That’s the one we should cover.' He made a good point. The thing is we had already done Britney Spears, so it wouldn’t be as funny to cover f-cking Christina Aguilera or something like that. We had done Kenny Rogers, Slayer, and Pat Benatar. We had never done Eddie Murphy."

Q: Did someone you cover like John Fogerty or Neal Schon – excuse me, I mean Neil Giraldo – from Benatar’s band mean anything to you as a guitar player?

Laiho: "Neal Schon…I love JOURNEY as well."

Q: That’s right. You cover 'Don’t Stop Believin’' as well.

Laiho: "For a couple of seconds we’ll play it, but I could never sing that song."

Q: Did you listen to guitarists like that, though?

Laiho: "Yeah, that’s one of the bands I digged real well. My dad was always playing CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL. Yeah, Creedence and DIRE STRAITS. Mark Knopfler is one of the reasons why I started playing guitar. When I heard the guitar riff for 'Money For Nothing' I was like, 'Holy motherf-cking sh-t.' I was like four years old. You want to hear what’s funny? Still today I can’t f-cking match that riff. He doesn’t play with a pick and does weird fingering. Then he does this little pinch harmonics here and there. I don’t think anyone in the world can actually match that riff. I could do it on the spot, but I can’t make it sound the way it’s supposed to sound."

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Children Of Bodom have released the video for single ‘Was It Worth It?’, taken from their forthcoming album Relentless Reckless Forever, exclusively through Microsoft Zune. You can view and purchase the brand new video here.

Children Of Bodom are streaming their new song 'Ugly' on Facebook here.

"Ugly is in my TOP2 list of the album", says the band's bass player Henkka T. Blacksmith. "I love the beginning. I love the COVENANT-style verse and the punk chorus. The weird pre-chorus or second verse, I don't know how u call it, is a really good riff, and it shuffles the structure of the song by ending the song too. The solo on the very simple solo background is really groovy. This is a simple but heavy one!"

'Ugly' will appear on Children Of Bodom's new album Relentless Reckless Forever which is set for a March 8th release via Spinefarm / Universal Music.

Relentless Reckless Forever is now available for pre-order in a variety of formats at this location. Among the packages available is a Super Deluxe Edition, which consists of the album housed within a 64-page hardcover book plus a DVD containing a special behind the scenes look at the making of the 'Was It Worth It?' music video and COB Live from Bloodstock Open Air footage as well as a first look at the Rock House instructional guitar lesson with the band's superstar frontman / guitarist Alexi Laiho taken from the upcoming Rock House Method: Alexi Laiho 'In Your Face instructional DVD, which also hits stores on March 8th. A second special edition package contains the Super Deluxe Edition of Relentless Reckless Forever and adds a limited vinyl LP version of the album, a COB t-shirt and the In Your Face instructional DVD. The first 300 fans to pre-order this bundle will also receive a Relentless Reckless Forever poster autographed by the band.

Recorded in Finland's Petrax Studios with famed rock producer Matt Hyde (SLAYER, MONSTER MAGNET), Relentless Reckless Forever is the seventh studio album of Children Of Bodom's illustrious career and the first new record from the band since 2008's Blooddrunk, which debuted at #22 on Billboard's Top 200 Chart and scored the quintet its third consecutive #1 debut in Finland. On Relentless Reckless Forever, COB's high-energy hooks and electric energy forge stadium-sized heavy metal anthems that seethe with both marvelous musicianship and a phenomenal pop prowess. The quintet's unique union of haunting melodies, rhythmic sensibility, guitar-and-keyboard interplay and king-size solos is supercharged to the maximum, and the resulting record is poised to push the band - already on the brink of breakout success in the US - to an altogether new pinnacle.

The tracklisting for Relentless Reckless Forever is as follows:

'Not My Funeral'

'Shovel Knockout'

'Roundtrip to Hell and Back'

'Pussyfoot Miss Suicide'

'Relentless Reckless Forever'

'Ugly'

'Cry of the Nihilist'

'Was It Worth It?'

'Northpole Throwdown'