Reception
Upon its release, Hate Crew Deathroll directly hit first place on the Finnish album charts, where it remained for 2 weeks and then slowly moved down the list, until the smoke out in March 2003 after 9 weeks. In France, the album reached 74th place and stayed on the charts for 2 weeks. In Sweden, it was on 36th place after 2 weeks.
In Germany, the album started at 45th place, but quickly fell to 68th and then to 92nd place before finally falling out of the list. After the release of Hate Crew Deathroll, the band experienced a growing interest from several leading mainstream media, such as MTV, where the video for the song "Needled 24/7" aired on Headbanger's Ball.
Allmusic has designated Hate Crew Deathroll as Children of Bodom's best-ever album, describing it as an album that is "particularly worth listening to". Conversely, many incarnate fans criticized the album and called it worse than its predecessors. Some of the criticism was directed towards its curious song titles, which have been called rogue. Laiho has responded by saying that they are merely black humor, and that he cannot understand people who take music too seriously.
Generally, it is considered to be more mainstream-oriented than the rest of Children of Bodom's works, which may be due to the close cooperation with the UMG.
As of November 2008, the album has sold 23,566 copies in Finland, which triggered a gold plate the same year as it was released.
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