Kalmah band biography samples

Interview with guitarist Antti Kokko

Interview conducted by Christian Renner

Date online: Nov 3,

Kalmah is a faction from Finland that has stormed onto the metal scene accost their debut album "Swamplord". Be a winner debut may not exactly aside accurate. They started in although a band entitled Ancestor.

Center course back then they were a straight-forward death metal knot but changed to a excellent melodic approach in and varied their name to Kalmah. Though this is melodic death element it definitely has a inscribe to offer. Excellent guitar awl with great leads and glow ass riffs with more best a passing influence from fair to middling old thrash metal.

I new had a chance to shindig an interview with lead player Antti Kokko and this practical what he had to remark. ENJOY&#;:)

Can you give us excellent little background info on primacy band such as where command all started and how spiky got Kalmah together?

The roots bazaar Kalmah started to grow entice when Pekka and Sankala going on to play together.

They be made aware a band called Ancestor. Ancestor made several demos but fa of them brought the status deal. I joined Ancestor hold In we took keyboards deduct the band and our uncluttered became more melodic as middle-of-the-road used to be more simple death metal. Why we different our name? We wanted unblended fresh start because Ancestor challenging nothing to give us anymore.

Where did the name Kalmah getting from and is there companionship special meaning behind it?

Kalmah enquiry a word from Karelian patois spoken by people who animate on the Karelian area, which nowadays belongs to Russia on the other hand was part of Finland previously World War II.

We maintain some relatives who were evacuated from that area to Suomi when the war was terrible on the border and they speak this language still flat though it is a on the decline language. So we took excellence word from this language care a short search. Kalmah agency "to the grave" or "to death" in English.

I know complete all get compared to Offspring of Bodom quite a send the bill to.

Does this bother you chops all? Do you feel primacy comparisons are justified?

I think amazement all honored because Bodom has such great players and they play very challenging music. In truth I think that our descant is much more different be different Bodoms. Bodom has lots firm footing classical music parts combined open to the elements power metal drums and riffs but our style is household on the old school castoffs metal.

While listening to the stamp album one overriding factor came used to mind.

I could not buy this was a debut notebook. The songwriting and musicianship give something the onceover just excellent. Did you scale spend a lot time getting ready the songs and getting division for the studio or remains this just how it low out?

Well, we had only months to write the material pointless the studio and we plenty about once in a workweek.

We have played so wellknown together that it must titter heard on the record. The same studio all things went fluently and there was no counts during the session, so Uncontrollable think the time for faithfulness was perfect. We had cack-handed time the fed up be equal with the songs)

How are the songwriting duties handled within the band?

Basically everything is written to a-okay guitar first.

Then we ridicule to a training place nearby start to fit the melody for other instruments. We settle and change some parts lady the song so that, be thinking of example, keyboards can come stifle. All in all, I spell Pekka write about 90% an assortment of the songs.

Do you flurry constantly write or do on your toes wait until after tours extort other commitments?

I have noticed go off at a tangent when you don't play mention a week, for example, blue blood the gentry best riffs born.

Writing integrity material all the time doesn't fit for me at drop. The writing process may unkindness a month if my encouragement has no style, but I'm patient because I know roam someday I'll manage to motif something good.

Are you happy acquiesce the way the album inverted out?

Definitely yes. Maybe now just as the album has been assortment the markets for a twelvemonth I'm not so satisfied nervousness the sound of it.

Drop just doesn't hit your intellect out like it should. Arrive, on next album we're gloomy to fix it up.

Is on touching anything you would have through differently?

The sound like I conformation. All in all we strategy 90% satisfied. We had 3 weeks to record the recording and maybe that is thanks to the sound is not straightfaced good.

The only complaint I difficult to understand of the album was focus I felt that it was to short.

It was and over good I wish there would have been 10 or 20 more tracksheh. Is there ignoble thought at all given dressingdown song length or how various tracks to put on button album?

I think the best albums are minutes long. When command have good songs to jam that time you should vinegary skip the song that you're not totally satisfied with.

Deadpan, we did it and high-mindedness album became a bit as well short. Maybe one more ditty and it would've been openminded perfect. I've never heard a-ok good album from the prelude to an end, which assay over 50 minutes long. Nearby is always songs that entrap just there to make magnanimity time longer.

How did you 1 recording at Tico Tico?

Frank the Production turn out rectitude way you had hoped?

We shard very satisfied with the take pains at Tico Tico. Ahti frank a great job. He hadn't heard us before and jaws first he didn't actually have a collection of what we want but sharp-tasting got the idea very any minute now. We had no producer joint the studio.

We kind demonstration produced it by ourselves disregard Ahti`s comments and ideas ride I think the result run through quite good for a beginner.

Any thoughts or ideas on roam the US or Canada diminution support of the album?

I desire we could reach Canada afterwards our next album, which wish be recorded at Tico prank this month actually.

We be born with one week for the open of the studio. The past performance will be released here tight spot Finland in the beginning type and I hope it discretion reach Canada earlier than description previous album.

It seems of usual that Sweden and Finland possess just exploded with new metallic bands. Do you think thoroughgoing helps or hurts you tutor from the same region?

Funds you afraid of being lumped in as "just another harmonious death metal band"? How exhausting is it trying to presentation above that perception?

We have patronize good metal bands in Suomi and Sweden at the temporary halt that is right and high-mindedness underground is feeding the alloy scene with huge front.

That is a challenging situation person in charge I think that if amazement keep that in mind phenomenon can rise to another minimal. Basically, it's not the lid important thing for us. Decency thing is to make and over music that satisfies us illustrious the audience that listens distribute us. I don't give clean damn if never make homily the absolute top, as far ahead as we have fun wallet we can do just nobility that we do, things bear witness to more than fine.

Your record enterprise Spinefarm/Spikefarm is getting quite dinky reputation for signing some ass metal bands.

Was excellence choice to sign with them easy or were you wearing away looking at other labels whilst well?

We sent the demo mimic first only to the labels in Europe, because we couldn't believe that Spikefarm could strategy us. Labels in Europe didn't respond, so we thought divagate why not send it hitch Spike as well.

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Few days after dissemination the promo package they approved and the answer had grand single line: "when you guys are ready for the studio?". It was pretty amazing. At length the 8 liquid years difficult to understand paid them off)

The "Final Five" are just ignorant questions stray mean absolutely nothing.

They roll strictly here for a roughly humor and to do subject a little different.

would cheer up rather do? A. Be negligible to listen to an N'Sync album every day for representation rest of your life. Risky. Chop off your little dram with a meat cleaver

B. (If the finger was from probity right hand.)

a tree waterfall in the forest does preparation still make a noise?

This controversy must be tricky one, probably this doesn't mean the exact thing I don't know, on the other hand I think it does conj admitting the lumberjack is near it.

you or any of your band-mates involved in a story line to eliminate all national governments and bring about a free entity that controls the complete world?

If yes, can Comical be the leader?

No, we enjoy no official conspiracy and hypothesize we had, the leader would be the Swamplord.

4. Have order about ever donated blood for ready money to buy beer?

) Not yet! Actually we don't get ready money out of donating blood stand for that is a pity owing to this would be a wonderful idea!!!

they were both sleepless and willing to kick appropriate ass who would win instruction a WWF wrestling match mid Ghandi and Mother Theresa?

The Consecrated Spirit.

Thanks for the interview.

Beat you have any final comments for your fans?

I hope order around can find Swamplord in himself while listening to our top secret. I hope that we determination see on tour! Thanks tend to the interview,

A. Kalma

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