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Pudasjärvi, Finland (1999 – present)

Kalmah is a band from Pudasjärvi, Finland. They are influenced by a high velocity brand of European Melodic Death Metal similar to that of metal bands like Children Of Bodom and Norther. The quintet formed in the autumn of 1999 following the demise of its first incarnation, Ancestor. In less than a year after its birth, Kalmah was signed by Spikefarm Records, a division of the Finnish label Spinefarm. In the fall of 2000, the band recorded its debut album for the label at Tico-Tico studios, a favourite of fellow countrymen Sentenced and Impaled Nazarene. The result, Swamplord, is an aggressive, twin guitar solo-based album whose atmosphere is often heightened by ethereal keyboards. Century Media Records picked up Swamplord for North American distribution, and the record was released in 2001.
After that, Kalmah released “They Will Return” (2002), “Swampsong” (2003) and “The Black Waltz” (2006). On the “The Black Waltz” the music is quite different of the previous Kalmah records - the vocals are much deeper (a lot of growling vocals on this album) and the music is more influenced by Gothenburg style than the previous albums.
Kalmah released their latest album in April 2nd, 2008 under the title “For The Revolution”.

The band took their name from the Karelian language and could be translated as “to the grave” “to the end” or “to the death”.

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1	Heroes to Us	661
2	Hades full track	579
3	For The Revolution full track	570
4	Holy Symphony of War full track	521
5	Wings of Blackening full track	470
6	Ready For Salvation full track	462
7	Defeat	438
8	Time Takes Us All	436
9	The Groan of Wind	433
10	Towards the Sky full track	425
11	Evil in You full track	423
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13	The Black Waltz	410
14	Heritance of Berija full track	394
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impres666 wrote:
yesterday evening

awesome band

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metallichadas wrote:
Thursday evening

Awesome stuff

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found_dead wrote:
Thursday afternoon

it makes you said? you mean said all this here?)

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Schander wrote:
Wednesday evening

@ Zetsubou: You mean this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ1KIJ-OYYg ?

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KoRoshiya1chi wrote:
Tuesday morning

Bullets Are Blind totally p0wns everything from For the Revolution!

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Zetsubou wrote:
Tuesday morning

Principle Hero is cool lol ive seen the lolliest parody video of it lol i laughed so hard i thought i would die but i cant find it on youtube anymore it makes me said :'(

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versionfiv wrote:
7 days ago

thanks for reposting that , neonar

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soul_synergy wrote:
8 days ago

Bullets are blind is awesome.

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Philter99 wrote:
9 days ago

Kalmah, one of, if not the most, skilled bands on the planet.

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Neonar wrote:
10 days ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HGdNf0tee4 Bullets are blind, mp3 quality.

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phoenix_wright wrote:
10 days ago

You're so right, the intros make me always think the songs but be amazing, but most of them aren't :D

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MaidenSlayer wrote:
10 days ago

I like this band but people have many rights to dislike them. They are pretty overrated. They do make awesome intros though.

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Swamplord1 wrote:
11 days ago

New album must be fucking awesome!

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Schander wrote:
11 days ago

Fuck, I can't wait any longer... giev alboem naow!

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versionfiv wrote:
11 days ago

i hope so!! @devil-guitarist the vocals make the band for me. sucks that you cant enjoy them.

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thelump94 wrote:
14 days ago

They said they are coming back to canada in early 2010, IDK if that means US too

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bloodgrave45 wrote:
15 days ago

AWSOME BAND

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Hundator wrote:
15 days ago

we sing HOLY SYMPHONY OF WAR!!!

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Schander wrote:
17 days ago

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Xedronek666 wrote:
18 days ago

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6th album in progress

13 May 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/kalmah

We have entered studio to record our 6th full length album. During May we will record 9 new songs and couple of covers. Mixing and mastering will take place at the beginning of Autumn when the da...

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