Children of Bodom has issued the following update about working on new material for an upcoming album:

"Children Of Bodom ended their 1.5 year Blooddrunk world tour in Moscow in October and is now enjoying some well-earned time off. The band will start working on their seventh studio outing early next year and the first months of 2010 will be spent in the rehearsal lair putting the new song material together. The studio is booked for early summer, but before that the band will treat their home crowd with three shows on Finnish soil."

The Finnish tour dates are as follows:

8.4.2010 Pakkahuone, Tampere, Fin
9.4.2010 Club Teatria, Oulu, Fin
10.4.2010 Hellkatti, Holiday Club Katinkulta, Vuokatti, Fin