Follow the Reaper is the third studio album by Finnish melodic death metal band Children of Bodom, released in Finland in October 2000 by Spinefarm Records and in 2001 internationally by Nuclear Blast Records.

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Follow the Reaper
Studio album by Children of Bodom
Released	30 October 2000
Recorded	August–September 2000
Studio	The Abyss, Pärlby, Sweden
Genre	Extreme metal power metal[1] melodic death metal[2]
Length	38:14
Label	Spinefarm, Nuclear Blast
Producer	Peter Tägtgren, Children of Bodom
Children of Bodom chronology
Tokyo Warhearts (1999) Follow the Reaper (2000) Hate Crew Deathroll (2003)
Singles from Follow the Reaper
"Hate Me!" Released: May 2000

Professional ratings

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Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Sputnikmusic	[1]

The album is the first to use a power metal-influenced sound in addition to the symphonic metal elements from previous albums—present mainly in the keyboards, vocals, and fast tempos. Many songs on the album became live setlist favorites, such as "Everytime I Die", "Hate Me!", and the title track. The song "Mask of Sanity" is a remake of the song "Talking of the Trees" from their early demo Shining (released as IneartheD).

Follow the Reaper was recorded and mixed at Peter Tägtgren's Abyss studio in Sweden, instead of the Finnish Astia-studio from Anssi Kippo, in which they had recorded all of their previous releases, including the demos from IneartheD. On this album, Children of Bodom used D standard tuning (D,G,C,F,A,D), which was also used on Hatebreeder.

The album features sampled quotes from the 1990 film The Exorcist III.[4]

A deluxe edition featuring two bonus tracks was released in 2006.

Track listing

Personnel

Charts

References

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