CHILDREN OF BODOM frontman Alexi Laiho is featured in a new interview with Hellbound.ca. An excerpt is available below.

Q: As you get more into your 30s, how much harder is it to keep up with the hard-partying lifestyle you led in your 20s?

Laiho: "I think now, and I’m only speaking for myself, I know how to get crazy, I still can be crazy and sometimes I do it too much, but also I know how to chill out. I don’t have to do that if I don’t want to. Five years ago I was always out there, I was always the craziest fuck. I’d always go have fun and go to bed. But I’ve been there already, I don’t have to do that. I’ve paid my dues, so it’s okay for me to go to bed really early. [Laughing]"

Q: So you know how to pace yourself now.

Laiho: "Yeah, I’m trying. I’m slowly learning to do that. My drinking started to kind of get out of hand for myself at some point. I didn’t notice it before, but it became more like medicating as opposed to just having fun. I didn’t notice it, but at some point I couldn’t even go out anywhere without at least five shots of vodka in my system, that’s when I felt normal. I couldn’t do anything before that. That’s not cool anymore and that’s not fun anymore. I just have to learn how to take it easy, and as usual I have to learn the hard way. I just had to realize that you can’t keep doing that forever."

Q: As far as that lifestyle went, was there ever a point where you found yourself trying to live up to how people expected you to act?

Laiho: "That’s kind of one of the points, I don’t want to live up to anything. I want to act like how I feel. It did come to the point sometimes where people, when they saw me sober, just drinking a bottle of water, they’d come to me, like, ‘Dude, are you okay?’ [Laughing] ‘Yeah, I’m fucking fine.’ [Laughing] Then when they see me passed out on the floor holding an empty bottle of Jameson’s, then they’re like, ‘Yeah, that’s Alexi.’ [Laughing] I only have myself to blame."

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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'