Kalmah- The Groan of wind

I like this song. it makes me energetic,yea kalmah…i want more…

Sirenia

Sirenia is a gothic metal band from Stavanger, Norway which incorporates a mixture of Gothic metal and Symphonic metal, as well as Black metal and Death metal elements. Vocals consists of death grunts,operatic female vocals and  a clean male singer. The lyrics  are written by  Morten veland.The band uses melodic instrumentals, synthesizers, and distorted guitars with female vocals, male death vocals, clean male vocals, a choir, and violins. The lyrics are concerned with human existence, emotion, and mental states.

Sirenia came together in early 2001, when Morten parted ways with his former band Tristania due to musical disagreements and personal differences. The band failed to find a suitable singer prior to recording in France, so they conducted auditions and found Fabienne Gondamin for the recording of At Sixes and Sevens. After recording one album with Sirenia (“At Sixes and Sevens”); Fabienne Gondamin was replaced by Henriette Bordvik with whom the band recorded two albums (“An Elixir For Existence” and plus one EP “Sirenian Shores”), they have recently released a third album – “Nine Destinies and a Downfall”. The album features new singer Monika Pedersen from Denmark, who joined the band after the departure of Henriette Bordvik. Bjørnar Landa (from Artifact) joined them while recording “Nine Destinies and a Downfall”.

The former vocalist, guitar player, main songwriter and text composer of Tristania, Morten Veland, laid the foundation for a new contribution to the gothic/metal/rock scene a few years back. Those contributions were brought along when he formed Sirenia.

current members:

1) Morten Valend

2) Monika Pederson

3) Jonathan A Perez

4) Bjonar Landa

Go through website www.sirenia.no to find more about the band

Kalmah

Kalmah is a melodic death metal band from Oulu, Finland that formed in 1999. In less than a year after its formation, Kalmah was signed by Spinefarm Records, a Finnish record label. “Kalmah” is Karelian and could be translated as “to the grave” or “to the death”. The band is often termed “Swamp Metal” after their album cover themes.

Kalmah began in 1991 when Pekka Kokko and Petri Sankala founded the band Ancestor. After Ancestor had recorded two demos, Antti Kokkojoined the band as lead guitarist. In 1998, after having recorded five demos and going through five different bassists whose names are unknown, Ancestor disbanded, and was refounded as Kalmah. The new band consisted of Pekka Kokko (vocals, guitar), Antti Kokko (lead guitar), Pasi Hiltula (keyboards), Altti Veteläinen (bass), and Petri Sankala (drums).

 In november 2005, kalmah has produced new album entitled The Black Waltz.The new album which consisted of eleven new songs was recorded and mixed at Tico-Tico Studios, and mastered by Mika Jusilla at Finnvox.

Kalmah’s musical style is largely influenced by melodic death metal, thrash metal, and speed metal. Kalmah is often compared to other metal bands from Finland such as Children of Bodom and Norther, possessing a heavy yet powerfully melodic sound. Like Children of Bodom and Norther, Kalmah exhibits some power metal elements in their music along with prominent keyboard melodies.

Kalmah’s first three albums relied more on higher pitched, screamed vocals but on their latest album, they have opted for lower death growl style vocals, while retaining elements from their previous albums.

List of kalmah albums:

1) Swamplord( 2001)

2) They will return( 2002)

3) Swampsong(2003)

4) The black waltz( 2006)

5) Kalmah Fifth studio album(2008)

Current members

• Pekka Kokko – Vocals, Guitar (1999 – present)
• Antti Kokko – Lead guitar (1999 – present)
• Marco Sneck – Keyboards (2004 – present)
• Timo Lehtinen– Bass (2001 – present)
• Janne Kusmin – Drums (2001 – present)

Former members

• Anssi Seppänen – Guitar (1992 − 93)
• Altti Veteläinen – Bass (1999 – 2001)
• Petri Sankala– Drums (1999 – 2001)
• Pasi Hiltula – Keyboards (1999 – 2004)
• Antti-Matti Talala– Keyboards

Kalmah is great, one of my favourite band, hope their next album will be more to power and speed metal.

i love to listen heavy music example metallica,kalmah, children of bodom,arch enemy and trivium. For me they are really rock and they produce good music and the lyrics are not bad..These band are my girlfriend…because it can entertain me so much.

I hope in the future they can produce a lot of good damn hardcore music..Thank to all of these band. My life is different now..