Is Kalmah the best melodic death metal band?

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Re: Is Kalmah the best melodic death metal band?

Postby Kotti » Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:59 pm

The Red in the Sky is Ours is just death metal that's a bit more melodic than most DM, Slaughter of the Soul is where they really started playing melodic death metal. Or on one of the albums between those two, I never cared enough to listen to them.
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Re: Is Kalmah the best melodic death metal band?

Postby Electro Tomato » Fri Apr 08, 2011 4:22 pm

Kotti wrote:just death metal that's a bit more melodic than most DM

That's what melodic death metal is lol

Skyfire and their power growler friends aren't really death metal
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Re: Is Kalmah the best melodic death metal band?

Postby Jama7301 » Fri Apr 08, 2011 4:28 pm

Just a slightly related topic, not focused at this conversation directly...

Why do people always get so up in arms about the genre of a band sometimes? Seems like a waste of energy in most cases.

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Re: Is Kalmah the best melodic death metal band?

Postby Electro Tomato » Fri Apr 08, 2011 5:30 pm

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Re: Is Kalmah the best melodic death metal band?

Postby vedicardi » Sun Apr 10, 2011 5:58 am

why not? lol
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Re: Is Kalmah the best melodic death metal band?

Postby Kotti » Sun Apr 10, 2011 6:15 am

Electro Tomato wrote:That's what melodic death metal is lol

Skyfire and their power growler friends aren't really death metal

You're using melodic as a prefix to death metal and I'm talking about the genre melodic death metal, there's a difference. Much like Dream Theater is progressive metal (genre) and Atheist is progressive death metal (progressive as a prefix). This thread is clearly about the genre as the first band mentioned was Kalmah.
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Re: Is Kalmah the best melodic death metal band?

Postby demoj » Sun Apr 10, 2011 10:37 pm

Speakin of which... did any1 hear their new album as of last yr? (Kalmah)
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Re: Is Kalmah the best melodic death metal band?

Postby kamakazikilla » Sun Apr 10, 2011 11:25 pm

i'll probably get booed out of this thread, but i'd like to argue a case for children of bodom... idk how you guys would feel about the vocals, but instrumentally i'd say they're top notch

also, skyfire is pretty good too =p
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Postby aander91 » Sun Apr 10, 2011 11:26 pm

Bodom's first three albums are fantastic, Hatebreeder is one of my favorite albums.
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Re: Is Kalmah the best melodic death metal band?

Postby kamakazikilla » Sun Apr 10, 2011 11:29 pm

hmm, they have good stuff on all of their albums, but i'd probably agree that as a whole, their earlier stuff was better... although that's not to say they slouch on their new songs, even the new album is pretty good IMO...
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Re: Is Kalmah the best melodic death metal band?

Postby aander91 » Sun Apr 10, 2011 11:35 pm

I'm just a sucker for their neo-classical stuff, Follow the Reaper is probably my least favorite out of their first three. That said I dislike their new direction. It's far from awful but for me it just isn't better than their original sound and style.
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Re: Is Kalmah the best melodic death metal band?

Postby kamakazikilla » Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:19 pm

i actually love follow the reaper... that would be my favorite or tied... and nobody ever likes the newer stuff from a band as a general rule... i'm open to the idea that different =/= worse, so that's why i can't really say that it's significantly better or worse.. it's just different
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Postby Delainfr » Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:00 pm

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Re: Is Kalmah the best melodic death metal band?

Postby CFH-For-Life » Tue Apr 19, 2011 2:46 am

Hmm theres alot of good melodeath metal bands:

Children of Bodom - Not the first to do it, but they sure is hell do it well. Plus Alexi Laiho is one of the sickest guitarist i've ever heard

Norther - Just got into these guys a while back, definately not best, but they are good

At The Gates - One of the first Melodeath bands, they have a nice thrashy element to there Melodeath music that makes them one of the heavier melodeath bands

In Flames - FTW! I love In Flames so much, their A Sense Of Purpose album is very melodic and heavy, but there first two albums are the best by far

Kalmah is probably top... oh.... say... 10 maybe. You'd be surprised at how many melodeath bands there are.
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Re: Is Kalmah the best melodic death metal band?

Postby piinyouri » Tue May 03, 2011 3:03 pm

Kalmah is fun stuff. Along with Equilibrium.

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