Artisan news recently conducted an interview with CHILDREN OF BODOM frontman Alexi Laiho and keyboardist Janne Wirman. In the interview the guys talk about their current tour, SEBASTIAN BACH run-ins, and prospects for returning to US. Excerpts from the interview are below:

Wirman On Sebastian Bach joining them on stage during their Los Angeles show: “The way he came out in LA is actually a long story: I was at his show in Barcelona, I was vacationing in Barcelona, he played a show and he made me come on stage with him and I was totally drunk and it was a disaster. So at the LA show I see him at the balcony, like hiding in the corner the whole show. Then I kind of like talked about the situation in my mic that hey, I’m drunk and having fun, but at least I’m not like that drunk when Sebastian made me go onstage… and then he climbed down and came on stage with us… you know, pretty cool.”

Watch the interview below:

Bravewords.com scribe David Perri recently conducted an interview with bass player Henkka Seppala. Read the interview here.

To mark the anxiously-anticipated return of Finnish bashers Children Of Bodom on their first cross-Canada headlining tour, BraveWords.com is offering up tickets to each date along with a COB t-shirt, limited edition COB lithograph, super edition deluxe CD/DVD of their blistering new album, Relentless Reckless Forever.

That's not all … at the end of the tour, one lucky winner will score an ESP Bass Guitar!

To get your hands on the ultimate COB prize-pack, send us an email at contests@bravewords.com with the subject line "I Want To Meet COB In The Pit". Winners will be chosen at random and notified 48 hours before the show.

PLEASE TELL US WHAT SHOW YOU WANT TO ATTEND!

All entries will be put back into the draw for the ultra exclusive ESP Bass Guitar!!! Contest ends on July 24th.

Visit the ESP Guitar Company at ESPGuitars.com.

Upcoming COB Canadian tour dates include:

July

21 - Halifax, NS - Multipurpose Centre
23 - Toronto, ONT - Downsview Park (Heavy TO)
24 - Montreal, QC - Parc Jean-Drapeau (Heavy MTL)