Kalmah is a Finnish melodic death metal band formed in 1998, known for combining melodic elements with thrash and black metal influences, prominent keyboards and technical guitar playing.

Reviews on DeBaser note Pekka Kokko as the band's singer/guitarist and leader, Marco Sneck contributing keyboards, and Janne Kusmin on drums. Critics emphasize constant, song-integrated solos, a thrash foundation, and symphonic keyboard touches recalling Scandinavian black metal.

Two reviews on DeBaser present Kalmah as a Finnish melodic death metal band with strong thrash and black metal influences. Reviewers highlight relentless, song-integrated solos, prominent keyboards and precise drumming. Swamplord and The Black Waltz are singled out as representative albums worth hearing.

For:Fans of melodic death metal, listeners who appreciate technical guitar work, thrash-influenced metal fans and followers of Finnish metal.

 Kalmah is a band that generally settles on levels that should be called "Melodic Death Metal", and perhaps it is indeed so, but unlike many of their colleagues belonging to the "Swedish" current, they have an extra turbine that mobilizes them and, without having to resort to masturbatory and ends-in-itself "shredding" Power of many of their more prestigious countrymen, they display an excellent technique and an inspired vein of a clear and evident brutal matrix.

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 Really, always! It seems that Kalmah wrote their pieces and arranged little solos over each (EVERY) riff: which leads to a typically ultra-technical and self-indulgent way of composing and playing.

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