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Album Description
Album number five from the Finnish horde. Catchy melodies and stellar production abound!

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5 out of 5 stars

Amazing Melodic Swamp Album May 21, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

Another Classic Melodic album at its best! This album features more of a variety in vocals. Kalmah uses their old high pitched vocals and their new but intense low vocals as heard on their previous release "The Black Waltz". The guitars and bass are just phenomenal in terms of how they incorporate melodies and heavyness. Solos are just great as well. The drums of course as always are brutal and so so creative. The keyboard is what suprised me the most(in a great way). I thought Kalmah was going for a more symphonic death way(as in the black waltz) but they actually mixed alot of their old elements, with new. They go back to using synths, but still use strings. A new element of the keys is a bell sound.(this is just one new element!) So this album is pretty much perfect. Old and New fans will definitely love this album!! Buy two!!

5 out of 5 stars

Classic Kalmah Meets the Black Waltz August 19, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful

Kalmah is a relatively unknown melodic death metal band. Their first three albums were amazing but suffered from the "Children of Bodom Clone" syndrome; that is a lot of people accused them of sounding like CoB. The Children only wish they were as good as Kalmah. To me, while there were similarities; Kalmah went for broke to get the "catchy" effect with the first note of every song.

Understandably, Kalmah tried to break free of the "clone" tag on their fourth album, The Black Waltz. With the album Kalmah successfully ended the Children of Bodom accusations completely while still managing to push their own sound forward. Gone were the shrieking vocals, replaced by growls. They managed to beef up the "epic" factor of their music even more. And the album was even catchier, in part due to even more atmosphere. Altogether, The Black Waltz was their best work yet.

So with their latest album Kalmah tries to change their sound again. Their fifth album is a compromise of the sounds of the first three albums and The Black Waltz. Does it work? Absolutely. The best thing about Kalmah has always been that their songs are able to grab your attention right away, and never let go. However, even though I gave the album a "5 star rating", I feel that is not their best work in part due to a somewhat "watered down" catchiness. With the exception of a few songs, the songs lack that "attention grabbing umph" that some of their prior songs like "Heroes to Us" or "Time Takes us All" had.

Certain songs like "Outremer" and "Dead Man's Shadow" manage to retain that classic Kalmah grandiosity. "Ready for Salvation" in particular deserves a mention... It is quite the beast, being simultaneously very slow, melodic, and heavy. If there was such a thing as a "death metal ballad" this would be it. It is certainly the most unique song on the album, and it may be the best as well. I hope that if Kalmah continues to try to evolve their sound, that this is the direction they push for.

All in all, the album was a let-down for me. It's hard to say that about a "5 star album", but then again its hard to beat high expectations. Kalmah stands alongside Nightwish and Iron Maiden as my favorite bands (strange company for a death metal band...), and like those two bands, even a mediocre album would be a crowning masterpiece by any other band. Fans of melodeath bands like Children of Bodom, Norther, Ensiferum, Graveworm, Skyfire, Eternal Tears of Sorrow, or even Arch Enemy should give these guys a shot.

5 out of 5 stars

PlayStation controls children's lives! August 12, 2008
Yet another solid release by the dependable quintet. Not that I was expecting anything else.

I'll try to keep this short and not repeat what the last reviewer said. In this album, the lyrics are less abstract and more about war (or anti-war, I should say) and revolution. The title of the review is a line from "Holy Symphony of War", and the title track is an unrelenting brutal-yet-melodic call to rise and revolt. Some lyrics are cheesy/eyebrow-raising (e.g., Wings of Blackening), but I'm not holding that against them... it's melodeath after all :)

The drumming is exceptional as usual. The keys are used in wonderful cohesion with the guitar lines, such as in the track Outremer. One "downside" of the album is that there aren't really any slow tracks (with the exception of perhaps Ready for Salvation), so it's a somewhat energy-sapping 44 minutes.

If you're new to Kalmah, this may not be the best album to start at; Kalmah's high-speed melodic style is exemplified best (in my opinion) in Swampsong where the vocalist uses a (really awesome) lower pitch growl throughout (he switched to traditional death vox in The Black Waltz). For people who (like me) love melodeath but don't much like plain old death metal, start at one of the earlier albums and work your way forward.

Recommended tracks: For the Revolution, Dead Man's Shadow, Wings of Blackening, Outremer, Like a Slave.

5 out of 5 stars

Keeps getting better with every spin! August 25, 2008
Not wanting to get too long winded I'll keep this short and sweet. First off, I keep hearing people say that Kalmah sounds like this band or that band. The fact of the matter is that I enjoy Kalmah much more than any of them. Amazing drumming, solos that don't sound like the ones in every other song, and impecable musicianship all around. While I really enjoyed "For the Revolution" on the first listen I still liked "Black Waltz" and "Swampsong" a little better. After owning the album for two weeks I've listened to it through about a dozen times and it gets better every time. So if you enjoy speed/thrash/death/melodic metal bands with killer chops and technicality without sacrificing musicality who stay true to themselves without getting boring then you will definitely enjoy For the Revolution and Kalmah's other offerings. Highly recomended.

3 out of 5 stars

Catchy Folk/Death Metal September 30, 2008
0 out of 8 found this review helpful

A good album from the genera of Folk/Death etc. Catchy rhythm that sounds folky but keeps a death metal edge. The vocals are a bit week in my opinion with little range and zero clarity. This is the first Album from this band I have listened to.

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