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Biography
Infobox musical artist | name = Kalmah| image = Kalmah - Jalometalli 2008 - 01.jpg| caption = Finnish melodic death metal band Kalmah live at Jalometalli 2008 in Oulu .| image_size = 250| landscape = yes| background = group_or_band| origin = Oulu , Finland | genre = Melodic Death Metal | years_active = 1998–present| label = Spinefarm Records|Spinefarm , Century Media | associated_acts = EternalTears of Sorrow , For My Pain... , Catamenia (band)|Catamenia , Nothnegal , End of You , Poisonblack | website = http://www.kalmah.com www.kalmah.com| current_members = Pekka Kokko Antti Kokko Timo Lehtinen Janne Kusmin Veli-Matti Kananen| past_members = Altti Veteläinen Petri Sankala Pasi Hiltula Anssi Seppänen Marco Sneck Kalmah is a melodic death metal cite web |author=Sweeney, Brian |title=Antti Kokko of Kalmah |date=April 19, 2008 |url= http://www.metalreview.com/Interviews/30160/Antti-Kokko-of-Kalmah.aspx |publisher=Metal Review |accessdate=2010-01-05cite web |url= http://www.metalcrypt.com/pages/interviews.php? intid=11 |title=Interview with guitarist Antti Kokko |author=Renner, Christian |date=November 3, 2001 |publisher=The Metal Crypt |accessdate=2010-01-05 band from Oulu ,cite web |url= http://www.tartareandesire.com/bands/Kalmah/878/ |title=Band biography |publisher=Tartarean Desire |accessdate=2010-01-05cite web |url= http://metalreview.com/2728/Kalmah-The-Black-Waltz.aspx|title="The Black Waltz" Album Review |author=Pigeon, Tim |date=February 22, 2006 |publisher=Metal Review |accessdate=2010-01-05Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot http://www.metalunderground.com/bands/details.cfm? bandid=1734 Metal Underground Finland that formed in 1998. http://www.kalmah.com/bio.html Kalmah Biographycite web |url= http://www.rlslog.net/kalmah-for-the-revolution-advance-2008/ |title=Kalmah – For the Revolution (Advance) |date=April 28, 2008 |publisher=Releaselog |accessdate=2010-01-05 In less than a year after its formation, Kalmah was signed by Spinefarm Records . The word "kalmah" is Karelian language|Karelian and could be translated as "to the grave" or "to the death."
History
In 1991, Pekka Kokko and Petri Sankala founded the metal band Ancestor. After Ancestor had recorded two demos, Antti Kokko joined the band as lead guitarist. In 1998, after five demos, Ancestor disbanded. Later in the same year, Kalmah formed. The new band consisted of Pekka Kokko performing singing|vocals and Electric guitar|guitar , Antti Kokko on lead guitar , Pasi Hiltula on Electronic keyboard|keyboards , Altti Veteläinen on Bass guitar|bass , and Petri Sankala on Drum kit|drums .
Kalmah began to write songs for a promotional CD entitled Svieri Obraza . With this demo, they acquired a recording contract with Spinefarm Records and headed to Tico-Tico Studios to record their debut album, Swamplord .
By November 2001, they returned to Tico-Tico Studios to record their second studio album, They Will Return . By this time, Veteläinen and Sankala were replaced by Timo Lehtinen on bass and Janne Kusmin on drums, respectively. In 2002, Kalmah played shows in Finland and at Wacken Open Air . In February 2003, they recorded their third studio album, Swampsong . In 2004, keyboardist Pasi Hiltula left and was replaced by Marco Sneck. The band released The Black Waltz in 2006 and For the Revolution in 2008. Kalmah toured in Canada and Finland to promote the latter album.
12 Gauge
Main|12 Gauge (Kalmah album) Kalmah's sixth studio album was released in Japan on February 24, 2010, Canada on March 2, Europe on March 3, and North America on April 6.cite web |url= http://www.last.fm/music/Kalmah/+videos/+1--mrkUIORZDw |title=Kalmah – One of Fail |publisher=Last.fm |accessdate=23 February 2010Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot
Recording and mixing took place from May to August at Tico-Tico Studios in Finland,cite web |url= http://www.kalmah.com/fans_diary12.html |title=Kalmah – Web Gauge (studio diary) |publisher=Kalmah.com |accessdate=16 February 2010 and mastering for the disc took place at the Cutting Room in Sweden. http://www.kalmah.com/index.html Recorded and Mastered
The track Bullets Are Blind was released in December 2009 on a 2-CD collection included with the 35th anniversary issue of Soundi magazine. http://www.soundi.fi/node/10108 Soundi Magazine 2-CD tracklist
In March 2010, 12 Gauge became the first Kalmah album to be released on vinyl. The album was mastered for vinyl by Joona Lukala, Noise for Fiction, and released by Svart Records in a limited run of 500 copies. http://www.svartrecords.com/shoppe/product.php? id_product=76
