In an interview with Noizr Zine, taken on 14 September 2017, Children of Bodom’s keyboardist Janne Wirman answering to the question about the band’s plans to start working on a new album with “the same production team” (Mikko Karmila and Mika Jussila) after the ’20 Years Down & Dirty’ tour…
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The first single from the album, ” We Know Where You Fucking Live “, was released on September 11, with the album due to follow on October 6.
In September and October, they held their 10th Anniversary World Tour that took them to Latin America, as well as countries including Hong Kong and Canada
On May 1, 2017, Todd La Torre revealed plans for the band’s next studio album. He said that approximately 15 songs were ready at that point and that they could be characterized by a faster tempo than those on the previous album. The band hoped to enter the studio in…
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In September, frontman Mark “Barney” Greenway spoke to Australia’s Sticks for Stones condemning the announcement and stated that no material was being worked on at the moment but was in the “preliminary stages”.
On August 30, 2017, the band announced on their Instagram page that they were in the process of demoing material for their upcoming eighth studio album.
On 10 August 2017, the band announced that they would be releasing a 25th-anniversary edition of Land of the Free .
On August 7, 2017, Metallica was invited by the San Francisco Giants again for the fifth annual “Metallica Night” with Hammett and Hetfield performing the national anthem.
That same month, it was announced that Napalm Death entered the studio to begin recording their sixteenth studio album for an early 2018 release.
The band performed at Wacken Open Air in August 2017.