Halo Of Blood, the eighth studio album by world renowned Finnish heavy metal band CHILDREN OF BODOM, has debuted on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart at #54 following its first week of release. Additional Billboard chart debuts include:
#7 - Hard Music
#13 - Independent Albums
#22 - Current Rock
#24 - Rock
#52 - Top Current Albums
Halo Of Blood also debuted at #21 on the Canadian Top 200 Albums chart.
The track “Your Days Are Numbered” can be streamed on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/1kkqQcuEiYeLoVnayvKjag.
Listen to Halo Of Blood’s title track on Pitchfork.com.
“Transference” is COB’s latest video: http://youtu.be/jlIWHyb9sM4.
CHILDREN OF BODOM will headline the Musicians Institute stage at this summer’s Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, which launches on June 29th in San Bernardino, California. Signing sessions with COB members will take place daily from 3 – 3:45 p.m.
Mayhem Fest tour dates + COB off-date shows are:
06/29/13 San Manuel Amphitheater - San Bernardino, CA
06/30/13 Shoreline Amphitheater - Mountain View, CA
07/02/13 Idaho Center Amphitheater - Nampa, ID
07/03/13 White River Amphitheater - Auburn, WA
07/05/13 Desert Sky Pavilion - Phoenix, AZ
07/06/13 Isleta Amphitheater - Albuquerque, NM
07/07/13 Fiddler's Green Amphitheater - Englewood, CO
07/09/13 Intersection - Grand Rapids, MI** *COB off-date with Behemoth, JFAC, Battlecross, and Huntress*
07/10/13 Molson Canadian Amphitheater - Toronto, ON – CANADA
07/12/13 First Niagara Pavilion - Burgettstown, PA
07/13/13 Susquehana Bank Center - Camden, NJ
07/14/13 Darien Lake Performing Arts Center - Darien Center, NY
07/16/13 Comcast Center - Mansfield, MA
07/17/13 Bangor Waterfront - Bangor, ME
07/19/13 Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain - Scranton, PA
07/20/13 Saratoga Performing Arts Center - Saratoga Springs, NY
07/21/13 The Comcast Theatre - Hartford, CT
07/23/13 PNC Bank Arts Center - Holmdel, NJ
07/24/13 Jiffy Lube Live - Bristow, VA
07/26/13 Klipsch Music Center - Noblesville, IN
07/27/13 First Midwest Bank Amphitheater - Tinley Park, IL
07/28/13 DTE Energy Music Theatre - Clarkson, MI
07/29/13 Expo 5 - Louisville, KY** *COB off-date with Amon Amarth, Behemoth, JFAC*
07/30/13 Lakewood Amphitheater – Atlanta, GA
07/31/13 1-800-Ask-Gary Amphitheater – Tampa, FL
08/02/13 Tower Amphitheater – Austin, TX
08/03/13 Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion - Woodlands, TX
08/04/13 Gexa Energy Pavilion – Dallas, TX
08/05/13 Cricket Wireless Amphitheater - Bonner Sprint, KS *COB off-date with Rob Zombie, Machine Head, and Amon Amarth*
08/07/13 Pop’s - St. Louis, MO *COB off-date with Amon Amarth, Battlecross, and Huntress*
08/08/13 Marathon Music Works - Nashville, TN** *COB off-date with Amon Amarth, Battlecross, and Huntress*
08/09/13 Peabody’s - Cleveland, OH** *COB off-date with Amon Amarth, Battlecross, and Huntress*
08/11/13 HEAVY MTL 2013 Festival @ Parc Jean Drapeau – Montreal, QC - CANADA
** headlining show
Pre-sale ticket links for COB tour dates are available on the band’s official Facebook page.
Visit the CHILDREN OF BODOM Landing Page to check out the various Halo Of Blood bundles (exclusive album art t-shirt + CD/digi-pak/vinyl). The album’s special edition digi-pak version features the bonus track “Sleeping In My Car” and a “Making Of” DVD.
Purchase the album digitally on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/COBiT
ABOUT COB: Over the last twenty years, Finland’s CHILDREN OF BODOM have incorporated many different musical styles into their celebrated sound, leading critics and fans to label them as melodic death metal, power metal, thrash metal, symphonic black metal, and neoclassical metal. Their enthralling mix of melodic hooks and instrumental acrobatics have solidified the band as one of the leading voices of music's new generation. Formed as Inearthed in 1993, the group is led by superstar frontman / guit
