Kälter - Ubuntu - review
Kälter - Ubuntu - review
Tracklist
01. Intuitions02. Flying Seeds
03. ReMember
04. Reflexions
05. Adversity
06. Tribulation
07. Rhythm Of Passion Part I: The Awakening
08. Rhythm Of Passion Part II: The Gathering
A review by
Milena March 11, 2013
You're allowed to be skeptical - after all, I was as well. Such a peculiarly titled melodeath album, with a vividly colored cover (and on it, what appears to be an Incan warrior looking into the face of his death), which starts with a (synthetic) flute intro would doubtlessly bring to mind a band trying to sound like Wintersun - and that's only one of the more fortunate solutions! Luckily, my initial associations were utterly off the mark.
As mentioned before, their sound is indeed based in the typical Northern European tradition of melodic metal made a bit more extreme (or, depending on what band you have in mind, extreme metal made super melodic) but the strong progressive leanings and folk motifs turn it into something different entirely. The guitars assume a mostly atmospheric role, with keyboards taking over the lead, and setting the mood of each individual song, from the folky opener to the cinematic, epic "Tribulation". This is definitely not the album for the synth-phobic, as keyboard solos are raining like confetti here. The drummer likes progging it up, and the band seems to work fine in instrumental format, with long instrumental stretches that aren't at all boring - "Reflexions", that comes off as an afterthought (or maybe that's just me being deluded by the track name) to the preceding song, "ReMember", is very engaging in particular.
You can tell Kälter's style is still in its infancy, but, based on this material, you definitely wouldn't assume they were a Children Of Bodom cover band just five years prior! Well, now that I've mentioned it, there is some vaguely Laiho-ish vocal phrasing in a stanza in the two-part album closer "Rhythm Of Passion", but what I really meant was that they have already written an album that I enjoy a lot more than what they started out covering, which is, I suppose, every band's dream. It is available for streaming in full over at Kälter's Bandcamp.
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Seriously enjoyed this album during the MS Awards, nice to see it getting an offical review, and a good one at that 
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I really dug this album, thank to Ms awards  I would have voted it, if Be'lakor hadn't realease an album last year. But yeah, it's really impressive.
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This disappointed me a little, their previous album was much better IMO
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I' am very happy you guys like what we do !! ^^ Its hard to please everybody since what we do is pretty experimental (compared to Spiritual angel for example). We dont put limits, we just play what we feel as musicians and thats it. We dont try to be a ''prog'' band or a ''folk, power, melo-death symphonic etc..'' band or a pale copy of any particular band. We dont care about the categories people put us in, we just do what we feel inside, and thats the beauty of Ubuntu.  Btw the flute at the beginning (and some other part) is not a synthetic one. It has been recorded by Maude Bouvier, a cute little redhead. Here is a picture of her with us http://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/599659_10150936256243085_1246437519_n.jpg Cheers ans thanks alot !! 
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Posts: 4603 Written by loucmachine on 13.03.2013 at 01:47 Really? I supposed it was since there weren't any other artist credits on your bandcamp/facebook/other places She is indeed cute!Thanks for dropping by, we appreciate it.
---- 7.0 means the album is good
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How did I miss that? "Spiritual Angel" was very promising, I'll have to check this one out. Thanks for the review!
---- Notre destinée n'est pas encore tracée....
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