CHILDREN OF BODOM Henkka T. Blacksmith has checked in from the road with the following update:

"I was 12 years old, me and my buddy where in the toilet area in my school, with walkmans when I heard a piece of the most brutal stuff ever, CANNIBAL CORPSE's Eaten Back To Life, that my brother had bought. It changed my life quite a bit. Now every third night I hear 'Skull Full Of Maggots' live, which is amazing and very nostalgic of course. The whole set is very tight and intense. But even better thing is that the guys are super nice. All of the band, and it s very easy to hang out with them. It's such a privilege to tour with Cannibal, and still feels weird to see them play before us.

DIABLO, we wanted to have them on our tour many times, and finally it happened. I really like their stuff, favorites, 'Icaros' and 'Read My Scars'.

Seems all the three bands get along very well. And everybody's hanging out, which is not so often happening on tours. That's so cool, and we feel extremely comfortable with this package.

I think Milan was the best so far. Great venue and great crowd. Amsterdam was pretty damn good too.

Jaska fell three times from his bunk the other night and has his face all bruised. Hahaa, its gonna be painful soon when he sweats in the wounds. I , myself, was told that I fell on random people at VOLBEAT show in Budapest. Damn Hungarian beers.

Roope was almost left out of the UK when his passport wasn't found when we crossed the border in the middle of the night. But he somehow found it from his luggage after some thorough search, which is a miracle, since he wasn't exactly sober. But now, we all are in UK. Today Glasgow. Last time Glasgow was great.

Local entertainment paper says: 'Children Of Bodom and Cannibal Corpse, Melodic Death metal from Finland, how romantic!'"

Henkka

P.S.: "We've seen that there's again a bunch of fake myspace accounts, pretending to be ours, personal ones. So for your information, only myspace that is actually ours is the www.myspace.com/childrenofbodom. None of COB members has myspace accounts, even though the fake ones might be very convincing. We ll work on it so we'll get them erased so people won't be fooled no more."

Remaining European tour dates are as follows:

February

14 - Glasgow, Scotland - ABC
15 - Norwich, England - UEA
16 - Manchester, England - Academy2
17 - Nottingham, England - Rock City
19 - London, England - he Forum
20 - Paris, France - Elysee Montmatre
2 - Antwerpen, Belgium - Hof Ter Loo
22 - Antwerpen, Belgium - Hof Ter Loo
23 - Hamburg, Germany - Grosse Freiheit
26 - Oslo, Norway - Sentrum Scene
27 - Stockholm, Sweden - Tyrol

March

1 - Helsinki, Finland - Icehall
2 - Seinajöki, Finland - Rytmikojaamo