UK-based Moshville recently caught up with Children Of Bodom keyboardist Janne Wirman to discuss the band's forthcoming album, I Worship Chaos. An excerpt from the interview is available below.

Q: Have you decided how much of the new album you’re going to be playing on tour?

Janne: "We really want to play quite a lot of the new stuff as we’ve been getting some great reactions to it. We hope to put a lot of the new stuff into the set. But then again, we need to include old stuff too. It’s going to be a balance."

Q: Think back eighteen years and then look at all the experience you’ve gained since. What advice would you give to a new band today who are in the position you were then?

Janne: "Well, none of that applies any more as the whole music business is shit now! There’s no physical sales, just that streaming shit and there’s no money in streaming for the artists. Everything we got to do when we were kids when records were still selling… that was awesome. But nowadays young bands are in a whole different world. There’s no support from a label for touring or anything if there’s no money in it any more. It’s just way different. Way, way different."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Pre-orders for I Worship Chaos are underway. The album will be available in following formats:

- CD + DVD digibook (incl. bonus DVD and three bonus tracks!)
- CD
- 2LP (black, clear, silver, yellow, picture)
- digibook + canvas (mail order edition)

Pre-order your copy at this location.

COB frontman, guitarist, and mastermind Alexi Laiho commented on the new album: “We are close to putting the finishing touches on the new COB record I Worship Chaos and as much fun (but most importantly raw, literally bloody knuckled hard work) it has been making it, I’m more than happy and even more anxious to share this chaos with the rest of the world.  So people, put your shades and helmets on, it will get very dark and it might hurt, in a perfect COB fashion of course!”

Returning to Finland’s Danger Johnny Studios (located at a top secret, undisclosed location in Helsinki) to record I Worship Chaos, the album was produced by COB and Mikko Karmila, who worked with the band on their earlier albums Halo Of Blood, Hatebreeder, Follow the Reaper and Hate Crew Deathroll. The album was mixed and mastered at Finnvox Studios in Helsinki, Finland.

Tracklisting:

“IHurt”
“My Bodom (I Am The Only One)”
“Morrigan”
“Horns”
“Prayer For The Afflicted”
“I Worship Chaos”
“Hold Your Tongue”
“Suicide Bomber”
“All for Nothing”
“Widdershins”

*The deluxe version of I Worship Chaos will include bonus tracks.

“Morrigan”:

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In support of I Worship Chaos, Children Of Bodom will join forces with Lamb Of God to tour Europe this fall.

COB fronter Alexi Laiho comments: “We're all super psyched to hit the road with Lamb Of God this fall as we have a long history of touring and kicking some serious ass all over the globe with those guys! This is something you might not wanna miss, trust me!“

Opening support will come from Sylosis. For a few dates in the UK and Ireland, this touring package will team up with mighty Megadeth.

Tour dates:

October (with Sylosis)
25 - Gdansk, Poland - B90
26 - Krakow, Poland - Fabryka
27 - Brno, Czech Republic - Club Fleda
29 - Marseille, France - Espace Julien

November
4 - Bordeaux, France - LeRocher De Palmer
5 - Lyon, France - Le Transbordeur
6 - Paris, France - Le Bataclan
7 - Strasbourg, France - Le Laiterie

November (with Megadeth, Lamb Of God, Sylosis)
9 - Dublin, Ireland - 3Arena<
11 - Glasgow, Scotland - Braehead Arena
12 - Manchester, England - O2 Apollo Manchester
14 - London, England - The SSE Arena Wembley
15 - Birmingham, England - Birmingham o2 Academy

November (with Lamb Of God, Sylosis)
17 - Stuttgart, Germany - LKA Longhorn
18 - Tilbourg, Netherlands - 013
19 - Oberhausen, Germany - Turbinenhalle
20 - Wiesbaden, Germany - Schlachthof
22 - Zurich, Switzerland - Komplex
23 - Lausanne, Switzeland - Les Docks
24 - Milan, Italy - Alcatraz
25 - Munich, Germany - Kesselhaus
26 - Vienna, Austria - Gasometer
28 - Leipzig, Germany - Haus Auensee
29 - Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique
30 - Hamburg, Germany - Docks

December (with Lamb Of God, Sylosis)
1 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Store Vega

December (with Sylosis)
5 - Södra Hammarbyhamnen, Sweden - Fryshuset
6 - Oslo, Norway - Rockefeller Music Hall

Children Of Bodom have announced a string of headline shows in their native Finland this December. Lamb Of God and Sylosis are on the bill for the Helsinki show on December 3rd

December
3 - Helsinki, Finland - Icehall
9 - Tampere, Finland - Tähtiareena
10 - Seinäjoki, Finland - Rytmikorjaamo
11 - Jyväskylä, Finland - Paviljonki
12 - Oulu, Finland - Super Park Areena

Other Children Of Bodom tour dates include:

October
10 - Loud Park - Saitama-Shi, Japan