Children of Bodom - Chaos Ridden Years | Stockholm Knockout Live

Chaos Ridden Years | Stockholm Knockout Live is a concert DVD by the Finnish melodic death metal band Children of Bodom, filmed at the Arenan in Stockholm on February 5, 2006 and directed by Patric Ullaeus. Spinefarm Records released it in October 2006, together with a live album of the same concert, Chaos Ridden Years. This is the American edition, released on October 24, 2006 and manufactured and distributed by Fontana Distribution: an NTSC, dual-layer disc coded for every region. Around the concert it gathers a documentary about the band, a film of the making of the concert, seven promotional videos, deleted scenes and a photo gallery.

Recorded

February 5, 2006

Recorded at

Arenan

Running time

1 h 35 min

Format

DVD · 1 disc

Disc Contents

Specifications

Video

NTSC

Aspect

16:9, compatible 4:3

Layers

DVD-9

Audio

Live in Stockholm: PCM stereo / 5.1 Dolby Digital; other materials: PCM stereo

Language

English / Finnish with English subtitles

Runtime

Total running time 183 minutes

Discs

Personnel

Transfer & Authoring

Assistant Pyrotechnician

Selmeri Saukkonen (Special FX)

Audio Assistant

Sami Jämsen

Booking (Finland)

Jouni Markkanen (King Foo Entertainment)

Booking (USA & Canada)

Nick Storch (The Agency Group)

Booklet Photography

Toni Härkönen

Bus Driver

John Ashton

Carpenter

Anssi Suomela, Japi Åström

Cover Artwork

Sami Saramäki

Director

Patric Ullaeus (Revolver Film Company)

Director (Chaos Ridden Years - The Children of Bodom Documentary)

Yrjö Järvinen (Indie Films)

Drum Technician

Duce

DVD Authoring

Kari Mankinen (Toast Post Production), Tommi Rehn (Toast Post Production)

DVD Menus

Anu Jalo

Electrician

Jani Hynninen, Magnus Collin

Guitar Technician

Holger Hahn, Neubi

Light Design

Lassi Seppä

Lights

Lassi Seppä

Live Recording

Hans Östlund

Live Sound

Pietsu Pietikäinen

Lyrics By (Silent Night, Bodom Night)

Kimberly Goss

Mastered By

Mika Jussila (Finnvox Studios)

Merchandise

Sebastian Blaize

Mixed By

Mikko Karmila (Finnvox Studios)

Monitors

Kal Kaercher

Producer

Patric Ullaeus (Revolver Film Company)

Pyrotechnical Supervisor

Ari Arvola (Special FX)

Pyrotechnics

Ari Arvola (Special FX), Selmeri Saukkonen (Special FX)

Sound Engineer

Pietsu Pietikäinen

Stage Design

Ari Arvola (Special FX), Lassi Seppä

Stage Manager

Neubi

System Engineer

Terhi Salo, Timo Liski

Tour Manager

Fleisch

Truck Driver

What F*cking Overdrive?

Trucking

Peetu Jokinen (Show Trucking Finland)

Video Director (Are You Dead Yet?)

Ralf Strathmann

Video Director (Deadnight Warrior)

Ed Grain

Video Director (Downfall)

Ed Grain

Video Director (Everytime I Die)

Tuukka Temonen

Video Director (In Your Face)

Sandra Marschner

Video Director (Sixpounder)

Ed Grain

Video Director (Trashed, Lost & Strungout)

Patric Ullaeus (Revolver Film Company)

Special Thanks

The Hate Crew, Continental Concerts, Spinefarm Records, Universal Finland, Revolver Film Company AB, Skrikhult Production, Hans Östlund, Finnvox Studios, Indie Films Oy, Jere L. and Pikkis, Coach Service GmbH, Show Trucking Finland Ltd, Akun Tehdas, Moving Lights Oy, Special FX Oy, Musamaailma Oy, DLX Music, Pearl, SMI Finland, Meinl, Audix, ESP, Mondial Reisen GmbH, Finnair

The Concert

Eighteen numbers, an hour and thirty-five minutes, from "Living Dead Beat" to "Downfall". On stage are Alexi Laiho (vocals and guitars), Roope Latvala (guitars), Janne Wirman (keyboards), Henkka Seppälä (bass) and Jaska Raatikainen (drums). The booklet credits three of them under the stage names they used at the time, Janne Warman, Henkka T. Blacksmith and Jaska W. Raatikainen, and Laiho as Alexi "Wildchild" Laiho.

The set reaches back across all five of the band's studio albums to that point, and the booklet names the album each song first appeared on:

• Something Wild (1997): "Lake Bodom".
• Hatebreeder (1999): "Silent Night, Bodom Night" and "Downfall".
• Follow the Reaper (2000): "Hate Me!", "Bodom After Midnight", "Follow the Reaper" and

"Everytime I Die".

• Hate Crew Deathroll (2003): "Sixpounder", "Angels Don't Kill", "Bodom Beach Terror",

"Needled 24/7" and "Hate Crew Deathroll".

• Are You Dead Yet? (2005): "Living Dead Beat", "We're Not Gonna Fall", "In Your Face" and

"Are You Dead Yet?".

"Bodom After Midnight" and "Bodom Beach Terror" are played as one medley. Three numbers are showcases rather than songs: "Deadbeats I" is a drum solo, "Clash of the Booze Brothers" a duel between guitar and keyboards, and "Latvala - Guitar Solo" Roope Latvala's spot. Every song's music and words are Laiho's, except the lyrics of "Silent Night, Bodom Night", which are Kimberly Goss's.

Pietsu Pietikäinen ran the live sound and Hans Östlund recorded the show. Lassi Seppä designed the lights, and the stage with Ari Arvola, whose firm Special FX handled the pyrotechnics. Mikko Karmila mixed the audio and Mika Jussila mastered it at Finnvox Studios in Helsinki, in May and June 2006. Laiho told the Finnish magazine Soundi that he did not want to film the DVD in Finland: it was meant as an international release, and talking to a home crowd in English between songs would have been ridiculous.

The Extras

• Chaos Ridden Years - The Children of Bodom Documentary, directed by Yrjö Järvinen for Indie

Films.

• Behind the Scenes - Making Stockholm Knockout Live, by Patric Ullaeus, who directed and

produced the concert film for the Revolver Film Company.

• Seven promotional videos, each with its director and the year Spinefarm's copyright gives it:
• "Are You Dead Yet?", Ralf Strathmann (2006).
• "Downfall", Ed Grain (1999).
• "Deadnight Warrior", Ed Grain (1998).
• "Everytime I Die", Tuukka Temonen (2000).
• "In Your Face", Sandra Marschner (2005).
• "Sixpounder", Ed Grain (2003).
• "Trashed, Lost & Strungout", Patric Ullaeus (2004).
• Deleted scenes and a photo gallery.

The concert has PCM stereo and Dolby Digital 5.1 sound, and everything else PCM stereo. The case gives the language as English, with the Finnish passages subtitled in English, and the running time of the whole disc as 183 minutes.

The Package and the Booklet

Sami Saramäki made the cover artwork. The front sets the band's script logo over a grim reaper, scythe raised, in silhouette inside a red-bordered warning triangle, with the two halves of the title stacked beneath. The disc label repeats the reaper in cream on black. The menus are Anu Jalo's, and Toast Post Production authored the disc.

The four-page booklet is printed in yellow and red on black, and every page of it is a list. Page 1 names the band, the touring crew it calls the Hate Crew, the thanks, and the management and booking (Continental Concerts & Management worldwide, The Agency Group for the USA and Canada, King Foo Entertainment for Finland). Page 2 gives the writing and publishing of each song. Page 3 credits the production, and page 4 the videos and the band's Finnish live crew, above a row of sponsors' logos. Page 3 also credits a booklet photograph to Toni Härkönen, and that is the other side of the sheet: the booklet folds open into a single large poster.

The Object

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