AYDY has some great tracks on it (Living Dead Beat, In Your Face, Bastards of Bodom, Trashed Lost and Strungout and We're Not Gonna Fall) but on the whole I find it a slight step down from the greatness of what went before. The other tracks are a bit by-the-numbers. I still love the album though, as I do all their stuff. Prior to the release of Hexed my ranking was this:
1. Hatebreeder
2. Follow The Reaper
3. Hate Crew Deathroll
4. Blooddrunk (Done With Everything, Die For Nothing is their most underrated track in my opinion, and I was happy to hear a kind of musical 'echo' of it on the track 'Relapse', from Hexed)
5. Something Wild (Alexi was 16/17 when he wrote this!)
6. Are You Dead Yet?
7. I Worship Chaos
8. Halo of Blood
9. Relentless Reckless Forever (though I LOVE the title track)
But honestly, albums 1 and 2 are pretty much tied. Both are masterpieces in my opinion.
We'll see how it ages but early indications are that Hexed will slot into the #4 slot.