   something wild is the debut full-length album by finnish melodic death metal band children of bodom, released in 1997. ==label== with children of bodom being a band years before this album and releasing demos with little support, it led them to the point where something wild was supposed to be released under their old name inearthed and by a small belgian label named shiver records. the band signed a contract to release the album with the label, but sami tenetz from thy serpent, acquired a copy of their album through the hands of children of bodom's guitarist alexander kuoppala, at the same company they both worked for at the time. tenetz then gave the copy to spinefarm records' boss who immediately became interested in signing them for a country-wide release. the latter deal was much more attractive to the band since shiver records was offering them close to no help to the point where the band would have to distribute and sell the album themselves. to get out of the contract from shiver records, the band faked a break-up under the old name and renamed themselves to children of bodom. ==style, samples & covers== the album was in câ¯ tuning (câ¯, fâ¯, b, e, gâ¯, câ¯). it presents a darker and generally more experimental sound than the one present in their later albums, and contributed most to the infamous genre controversy of their classification as a death metal or black metal band at the time. a fair helping of black metal was still present, due to alexi laiho's stint (as lead guitarist) in impaled nazarene and his self-professed "roots being in black metal". in a recent interview laiho claims that the band at the time were inspired by "a lot of black and death metal bands" such as dissection and hypocrisy as well as classic rock/metal bands like the scorpions (who they ended up covering for the reissue of this album), and that many other new bands in the scene were "trying to sound like dimmu borgir&q
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