Most Children Of Bodom fans are aware by now that the band's upcoming North American tour supporting Machine Head with Epica - due to run through October - has been cancelled. According to a statement issued by Machine Head, "our new album, Bloodstone & Diamonds, has taken longer to complete than expected and we had to make the difficult choice to either delay the album, let it go out as incomplete, or cancel the tour in order to properly finish and promote the album in the caliber it needs to be done. We decided postponing the tour was the best decision for the record."

Children Of Bodom frontman Alexi Laiho has since checked in with a message to the fans:

"I'm sure some of you already know that our North American tour with machine head has officially been canceled, without any fault of our own I might add. I will not go into details on why or what happened but I need you, my friends to know that this had nothing to do with me or COB. But hey, you know what? Shit fuckin' happens, life goes on, and at least now we have an extra month and a half to write new COB shit. So, instead of focusing on the negative, I'm gonna start to write music this very second and it will be some angry shit.

I guess this is me apologizing on everyone's behalf that we let you down. On a happier note, I will have a few live performances on my own (will let you know about that later) happening this year, so I will see some of you soon!"

On August 9th the Bloodstock Open Air aired a live stream of Children Of Bodom's set. Check out a portion of their show below featuring "Hate Me!",  "Needled 24/7" and "Bodom Beach Terror"

Children Of Bodom played the Wacken Open Air 2014 in Wacken, Germany on the weekend of August 1st - 3rd. Their full set has been uploaded for streaming.

Show setlist:

“Needled 24/7”
“Kissing The Shadows"

“Bodom Beach Terror”
“Halo Of Blood”
“Scream For Silence”
“Hate Crew Deathroll”
“Lake Bodom”
“Angels Don’t Kill”
“Are You Dead Yet?”
“Towards Dead End”
“Hate Me!”
“Bodom After Midnight”
“Downfall”
“In Your Face”