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band

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, recorded in 1999. It was recorded and filmed at Club Citta on 10 and 11 July 1999 in

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. The album was re-released on 29 May 2001. The band and their record label,

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, had plans to release the show as a DVD along with the CD, but they reached the conclusion that there were some mismatches between the video and the audio, as there was video footage from two different shows. Two of the songs from this album have been released separately for promotional purposes and can be found on a Spinefarm DVD compilation: ''Silent Night, Bodom Night'' and ''Deadnight Warrior''. Track 1 covers a segment of Jan Hammer's "Crockett's Theme" from the

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soundtrack. At the end of track 6, a brief part of the

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of "Crazy Nights" by Japanese band

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is played. They later covered the song and released it as a bonus track on the album ''

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''. The intro for track 9 is a strain of music called "Hummel Gets the Rockets" which was composed by

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and

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Track listing

Charts

References

{{Authority control Children of Bodom albums 1999 live albums Spinefarm Records live albums