Written by Guest on 08.02.2007 at 03:21

Written by Amrott on 07.02.2007 at 00:15

@James: i guess the reason for re-releasing is that they are almost out of print. it was hardt to get swamplord, i had to use eBay, luckily it wasn't too expensive

I have never seen a copy of either of the first 2 Kalmah albums in any shops here, and I had to order mine in as well and same thing both were really cheap and easy to get in also.

I was so desperate to get original Kalmah CDs that I told someone in Finland to get me a copy of Swampsong....Lo and behold they were also out of stock for Kalmah, I thought that was crazy.

Written by Guest on 13.02.2007 at 14:04

Over here, the great bands, namely Kalmah, and their albums are not found. Well at least to me, I've been searching HIgh and Low for their cds. And after my desperate attempts I've found them now ^_^ I just love Pekka's unearthly growls! Don't you agree?.

Still it's sad in knowing that I'd never ever get to see them live, since this city doesnt know good music! Fuckers!

Sadly I'll never get to see them in the states due to the fact that they can't get any shows booked..Which I think is a good thing..Because I am hoping that they won't hit American shores for tourism..They might turn into Children of Bodom..>.O And that won't be good..

I have hard time getting all 4 of them here in the States.

Firstly, comparing Kalmah to Children of Bodom is natural as they have the same style of music. It's the same as comparing CoB to Norther, but that's a different story!

Yeah Kalmah kick ass! I unfortunately had to download some of their cd's 'cause just like Slottet av Take said, you can't find their discs in music shops around here. "Swampsong" is really good, in fact i'm listening to it right now. Their latest work is definateley better than Children of Bodom's latest discs but don't forget, CoB also released "Hatebreeder" and "Follow the Reaper" which are definately on par with any Kalmah album!

But yea, Kalmah are really awesome, now if only they toured in South Africa...

Written by Guest on 14.02.2007 at 04:53

Seems the first 3 albums are fairly hard to get for a lot of people eh...?

I had no trouble getting my hands on all of the albums..
And I wouldn't see them hard to get since all of their albums are all over Ebay..

Written by Guest on 13.02.2007 at 17:47

Written by Guest on 13.02.2007 at 14:04

Over here, the great bands, namely Kalmah, and their albums are not found. Well at least to me, I've been searching HIgh and Low for their cds. And after my desperate attempts I've found them now ^_^ I just love Pekka's unearthly growls! Don't you agree?.

Still it's sad in knowing that I'd never ever get to see them live, since this city doesnt know good music! Fuckers!

Sadly I'll never get to see them in the states due to the fact that they can't get any shows booked..Which I think is a good thing..Because I am hoping that they won't hit American shores for tourism..They might turn into Children of Bodom..>.O And that won't be good..

Now that you've mentioned it......I'm glad now. No, No they wont turn into CoB. God no! Although I like their music but still (CoB I mean).

Woodsy, I agree with you, Kalmah's style is as distinguished as it gets. There's no other Kalmah!!!! Nor will there be any comparisons.

\m/ Long Live KALMAH!! \m/

With all the comparisons,
I do think that Kalmah is heavier that Cob, Kalmah has a more romantic/cold melodicity associated with their song writing too. Cob IMO is more heavy metal oriented, I mean just look at the influences on Laiho and the cover songs they chose to do as well.

Written by Guest on 15.02.2007 at 04:47


It's not natural its annoying. This has to stop now today no more. I cannot stand Kalmah and Norther being constantly compared to Bodom every fukking time thier names get mentioned. They have NO similarities to Bodom whatsoever and in all honesty they never did, the only loose association is they are all Finns and all belong the same area of metal no more no less thier music has never been anything like Bodoms or Norther,s the vocals are different the music is to and the keys are way different and Kalmah is about 50 times as heavy also in case you hadnt noticed

Actually, all three of the bands have some similarities, Antti, Alexi, and Peter are all influenced by classical music and they reverted it into metal form..I too dislike it when people compare the bands to each other, but all three bands have different styles..Personally, Norther's not all that great except for some songs off of "Mirrors of Madness" and "Dreams of Endless War", Kalmah being the best, and Bodom sank downhill after releasing "Hatecrew Deathroll"..

Sorry Woody, I'm going to have to disagree with you on the statement you said about Norther being "kings of metal"..Kalmah beats the shit out of of Norther anyday..
I can't bother to listen to any Norther after Mirrors of Madness, their other albums they've put out after Mirrors just have nothing great sounding..It all sounds like the same roots and melodies.
As for your comment on Something Wild and Dreams of Endless War being inexperienced..Well no they weren't that inexperienced..Seeing as those two albums are both great albums released by the bands...Mirrors had alot of songs on it that sounded exactly like songs off of Dreams of Endless War..and it really dissappointed me because I thought Norter was pretty raw when they released Dreams..
Sorry..but Norther could be so much better, as well as Bodom..Oh well..Kalmah still owns and will forever!

@Woodsy (regarding screen name): Lol, like my screen also 'tis obviously why I came up with it. XD Thanks.

And yes, Kalmah owns!!! Harr!! For my foresight, I see that Kalmah will forever dominate the metal world. ^_^ At least, for my world that is, I mean, um...ours. That's good enough don't you think.

Written by Guest on 16.02.2007 at 19:53

Sorry Woody, I'm going to have to disagree with you on the statement you said about Norther being "kings of metal"..Kalmah beats the shit out of of Norther anyday..
I can't bother to listen to any Norther after Mirrors of Madness, their other albums they've put out after Mirrors just have nothing great sounding..It all sounds like the same roots and melodies.

Yeah I agree...Norther was really good around the "Mirror of Madness" time but after that they seem to have cocked it up a little bit and screwed around with the clean vocals too much making their sound even more accessible. At the moment i think Kalmah is on top of the kalmah-bodom-norther pile, not necessarily due to the fact that TBW is an AMAZING album but more because the other 2 bands seem to have dropped the ball lately....despite all that I think Kalmah is the best of the 3 anyway because i think Swamplord and Swampsong are absolutely incredible.

I think that Kalmah is one of the best bands in this subgenre together with Norther, i can't compare Kalmah with Norther because they are at the same level in my point of view, although i listen more to Kalmah than Norther (but just because i've started listening to Kalmah after Norther). "Swamplord" is my favorite album, when i 've listened the first track i thought that with one music like that "opening" the album, many more and better would come and i didn't made a mistake, "Swamplord" is in my favorite albums list .And the others are good too, but i prefer their first two albums....

can someone tell me something about the new release?? ms says that they gonna release their album 9.may 07
but i cant find any news on their homepage about the release why??

Written by baldur on 28.04.2007 at 15:26

can someone tell me something about the new release?? ms says that they gonna release their album 9.may 07
but i cant find any news on their homepage about the release why??

Yeah, I saw that too, but I think it's an error, because as you said, their site mentions nothing. Their Myspace is the same way.

just started to hear a couple of songs "heroes to us" and "they will return". just listened to 2 albums but ive been very impressed have to listen some more ;P

Ok sorry for the off topic..ness? Uh can i get some recommendations of some bands that are similar to Kalmah? I have been searching diffrent bands for weeks and most sounds stock and boring. The bands i listen to now are.

Kalmah
Children of Bodom
Dark Tranquility
Dimmu Borgir
Black label Society
Iced Earth
Finntroll
Amon Amarth
Darkane
Korpiklaani
Naglfar
Necrophagist

But by far my favs are Kalmah and Children of Bodom, i LOVE neo classical stuff. well any suggestions would be GREAT thanks

Orderdrake, ere we go, band and best album (by me and I m not THE expert):

SKYFIRE, Spectral
ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW, Chaotc Beauty
MORS PRINCIPIUM EST, The Unborn
WINTERSUN, Wintersun
NORTHER, Mirror of Madness

and at a lower level, thanking Yova's suggestion (a real expert), IMPERANON, BLIND STARE, BLOOD STAIN CHILD and THRONE OF CHAOS,

Check em out, you wont be disappointed

Written by Remus on 14.02.2007 at 20:24

CoB also released "Hatebreeder" and "Follow the Reaper" which are definately on par with any Kalmah album!

John Cage would stand up straight, object aloud and say...pleeeeeaaaase! Then fire a shoe, pokipsin around and sing with the jury

Kalmah, Norther, Wintersun and whatever...are all Hatebreeder sons, that album made the subgenre and still remain the best of the best of extreme metal, IMO. And Follow the Reaper is noway near the predecessor (right spelling?)

Stay Kalmah, they re...HEROES TO US!

Written by Guest on 29.04.2007 at 07:14

Kalmah
Children of Bodom
Dark Tranquility
Dimmu Borgir
Black label Society
Iced Earth
Finntroll
Amon Amarth
Darkane
Korpiklaani
Naglfar
Necrophagist

Lol, its kinda hard because they are differrent genres but here goes, I think you would like these bands by your tastes....

As the guy above, Eternal Tears of sorrow, is what you are looking for if you are a kalmah/cob fan. For stuff like DT I would say In flames, Arch Enemy. I think you would enjoy the swedish DM scene quite a bit too, try Dismember - Like an Everflowing stream, and Hypocrisy's latest release: Virus

Thank you all very much im going to look all of them up now

Written by Guest on 29.04.2007 at 11:32

Written by Remus on 14.02.2007 at 20:24

CoB also released "Hatebreeder" and "Follow the Reaper" which are definately on par with any Kalmah album!

John Cage would stand up straight, object aloud and say...pleeeeeaaaase! Then fire a shoe, pokipsin around and sing with the jury

Kalmah, Norther, Wintersun and whatever...are all Hatebreeder sons, that album made the subgenre and still remain the best of the best of extreme metal, IMO. And Follow the Reaper is noway near the predecessor (right spelling?)

Stay Kalmah, they re...HEROES TO US!

It semed that everyone was saying that Kalmah is so much better than Bodom. With my comment, i tried to explain that even though CoB released that big piece of shit "Are you dead yet?", they still have awesome albums such as "Hatebreeder"! I'm sorry you failed to understand my comment.

BUT

Just because Kalmah & Wintersun and Norther are all "Hatebreeder" sons (debatable), doesn't mean that "Hatebreeder" is the best extreme power metal album ever. Just beacuse band A develops a genre doesn't mean that later on a band won't come along and release an album that's even better than band A's best effort. I agree that "Hatebreeder" is a terrific album but i think that "The Black Waltz" is just as good, even though it was released years later and by a different band.

Remus...you re right, I ve read you wrong.

Everything with/for me is debatable, and borrowing your styile, I m not The expert as i sad previosly,

BUT

Hatebreeder is like Oceanborn, and like PASTA in Italy: It came and will always come first, it is just the best

So...dont try to give theese desperate Kalmah fans a sweet cookie, they shall bow to the pioneers and the genius of Alexi

Written by Guest on 02.05.2007 at 01:51

Remus...you re right, I ve read you wrong.

Everything with/for me is debatable, and borrowing your styile, I m not The expert as i sad previosly,

BUT

Hatebreeder is like Oceanborn, and like PASTA in Italy: It came and will always come first, it is just the best

So...dont try to give theese desperate Kalmah fans a sweet cookie, they shall bow to the pioneers and the genius of Alexi

im much more of a CoB fan than a kalmah fan although i like both, CoB comes first as well

Only 4 days to release the coming album & still it's TBA !!!

so worried & can't wait for it !

WOW! KALMAH OH YEAAH

Holy shit I didnt know that they were going to release the album this soon, cant wait!

@CoB fans... maybe Kalmah is not first in this genre... but is much way better then CoB. Two reasons:
-Kalmah is making music, CoB is making money(this is not my opinion, this is fact)
-Kalmah have 4 great albums and will have more of them... CoB have only Hatebreeder(this is my opinion and probably many won't agree with me... but I don't care.)

Written by Guest on 05.05.2007 at 18:02

@CoB fans... maybe Kalmah is not first in this genre... but is much way better then CoB. Two reasons:
-Kalmah is making music, CoB is making money(this is not my opinion, this is fact)
-Kalmah have 4 great albums and will have more of them... CoB have only Hatebreeder(this is my opinion and probably many won't agree with me... but I don't care.)

you're right (in a way) I believe that Alexi is making music to show people that he can Sweep pick very well (thats it) while ignoring the fact that a lot of his songs sound the same, especially "follow the reaper"

I don't think they have a new album coming out anytime soon. There's no news of it on their Official website or their Myspace.

Damn, I cant wait for new album, and its still TBA...

Its not a new album...its a re-release of I think Swamplord and They Will Return, with a couple of bonus songs....could be wrong about the minor details but im pretty sure there wont be a new album yet and probably not for about a year.