Swamplord was first CD what I heard from Kalmah and it rocks always!! Awesome album. And that copying is shit. These have own style and dont sound to CoB or Norther.

I would give 9.5 points but its opinion question.

Good review.

8/10?? Such a lack of respect (joke)

This is an absolute KILLER of an album...one of my top 10 favorite albums of all time without a doubt. What impresses me most about this album (and basically all Kalmah albums) are the fantastic original and energetic melodies these guys always seem to come up with. And if there still exists idiots who STILL think theyre Children of Bodom rip-offs then you can lick my hairy hole because eversince this album was releases Kalmah has owned Children of Bodom totally and completely...

As the clever gentleman above has stated....I also give this a 9.5/10

fuck ya love this album hades is an amazing song:banger2:

I love this album. I would like to also reiterate that the only thing Kalmah have in common with Children Of Bodom is that they're Finnish, and they both play metal. They play completely different kinds of metal though. I prefer Kalmah's personally. I'd also give this album a 9.5/10... more than 8/10 anyway.

Thank you for the feedback, I'd still like to point out that when writing a review one has to make a lot of decisions between being informative/descriptive about the music, giving out as objective opinios/as subjective opinions as possible and so on. When I wrote the review I know I could have done better when writing, however, I tried to be as objective as possible and gave the rating according to that. You must remember that Kalmah have never succeeded to create any sort of special status around them. In fact, they have just been gaining more and more publicity recently (quite rapidly too) so that is also one of the reasons for not giving this album the full score.

Also, for me any album that is somehow extreme it will take something special to give it a 10/10 or a 9.5/10, when speaking objectively of course.

OOOh I just love the whole album! The growls and the guitars.....ah....everything about it just makes me melt away and drown in it forever!!!!

I think this is probably my favorite Kalmah album...cold, melodic, deppressive and the music literally sucks me from their best song IMO evil in you.

this one and swampsong are constantly in my cd player, and it never gets old, seriosuly, they are masterpieces are far as im concerned. i'd give both of them about a 9.4, which is much more proper rating than an 8

Ya i perfer kalmah and this album is sweet.

This is one of the greatest extreme power / meldoic death (watever) metal albums of all time - the guitars, growls, drums, everytihng is just perfect fav songs: Withering Away, alteration, hades and black roija!

By far the best release from Kalmah ever. There's nothing special or absolutly new about this work, but it is sure a very good melo-death album. The guitar lead is beautiful, the harmony and brutality are equalized, making the balance perfect. No complains for the vocals also.

Didn't see any problem with "Black Roija"

Certainly the best melo-death album from Finland, without any doubt. Kalmah is an underrated band, such a shame !

I also feel that 8/10 is a bit severe for this masterpiece...

CoB and this diference is small teenage girls are not in crush of from man in this case

Written by Bad English on 26.09.2016 at 17:41

CoB and this diference is small teenage girls are not in crush of from man in this case

Lol, what?