Sweden's Critical Mass recently caught up with CHILDREN OF BODOM keyboardist Janne Wirman to discuss the band's new album, Relentless Reckless Forever. An excerpt is available below.

CM: The band has always created what can be classed as party music for metalheads and the choice of first single from the album written by frontman Alexi Laiho was no coincidence.

Wirman: "I have always felt that COB’s music has been good for drinking. 'Was It Worth It?' was chosen single because it has a very catchy chorus, you know, but it doesn’t represent the whole album."

CM: Before joining the band Janne completed classical music theory but he would never call himself the brain of the band.

Wirman: "Musically, Alexi (Laiho) is the brains of the band because he writes all of the music. He also has all of the basic music theory training, which makes it really easy for me to communicate with him. I mean, everybody in the band has basic music theory and otherwise I would get really frustrated if we couldn’t talk about the music in the correct terms. But no, Alexi is definitely the musical brains because he writes all the music."

CM: What is the most fake thing in the industry?

Wirman: "Well, you know, there is a lot of faking going on in the music industry. I mean, the whole music industry is kind of fucked right now, it’s pretty fake, the whole thing. I hope somehow there would be a solution so that artists and record labels could still keep doing what they are doing so that it would be somewhat financially, you know, reasonable for everybody, but I don’t know."

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Children Of Bodom hit the road with ENSIFERUM and MACHINAE SUPREMACY on March 19th. The complete live itinerary can be found at this location.

Check out the band's video for the track 'Was It Worth It?' below. Listen to the track 'Ugly' at the band's Facebook page.