#Kalmo 🇫🇮 #VideoStream
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Band: Kalmo
Music video: TSEPVSL
Album: Gehinnom (2021)
Country: Finland
Label: Sliptrick Records
Video release date: August 18th 2022
As day dawned you were blissfully unaware of the darkness spluttering, rising, condensing and then slowly unfurling around the globe. Tendrils of corruption were stretching out and clawing at all in their path until finally they reached YOU! Suddenly the source of the diabolical incursion is revealed as…. KALMO.
Kalmo (Finnish for cadaver) is a one man blackened doom powerhouse of creativity, and for me, one of the darkest, heaviest and most exciting new acts to emerge in the past several years. Drawing from some of the best, Kalmo proudly claims to “feast on influences from old school metal bands like Celtic Frost, Slayer, Death Breath, Black Sabbath, and Master”. These heavyweights may have combined to leave a solid imprint, however this act stands alone as an unparalleled force of metal unto itself.
Not only does each successive release deliver hard hitting, unique and unpredictable experiences for the listener, but Kalmo also enjoys dishing up visual assault in the form of gripping and twisted music videos.
The 18th of August 2022 is a date now satisfactorily corrupted by the release of the new Kalmo video “TSEPVSL”, from the 2021 album “Gehinnom”. The clip is hypnotically captivating, cryptic, unnerving and a perfectly sinister and befitting accompaniment to its dark, oppressive aural counterpart. The gloomy serenade of the Finnish lyrics only adds further depth to the overall enigma (unless of course you are one of < 6 million lucky people who have mastered the delightful yet impossibly complicated language, and then the lyrics are no mystery at all. I’m insanely jealous, please teach me now).
Here is how Kalmo himself describes the new video:
“The last soul trapped in human flesh, his time depleting. Despair is complete, as complete as the inescapable end itself. The distorted image, reflected in the darkness at the last moment, invites the last of the lasts to step into the void. This is not an ending, but the end.”
The album Gehinnom is available via the Dead Pulse website in both digital and CD format, while previous releases can be exhumed from Kalmo’s Bandcamp link.
As for what’s coming in the future Kalmo says “At the moment Kalmo is working on new material. Based on the first demos of some of the new songs, the musical style and a few other aspects will undergo some changes. Release dates and formats of the new material are yet to be decided. It will take time for the new songs to (de)compose and rot to taste. Stay doomed! \m/ Kalmo”
You are invited to fully submit and join together in the incantation (choose your verbal weapon Finnish or English):
| “TSEPVSL” Lyrics in Finnish | “TSEPVSL” Lyrics in English |
| Jo syntymässä annettu tulevassa ei huomista Tulta vuotava sydän armoa ei tunnusta Alun ja lopun väli täynnä tuhon kaipuuta Temppelini ei jaksa kantaa alttarini painoa Tähän se ei pääty vaan se loppuu, loppuu, loppuu, loppuu Jo syntymässä saamme sen mitä me olemme Historian verivanaa tuomioon me kuljemme Tähän se ei pääty vaan se loppuu, loppuu, loppuu, loppuu Nyt pimeys siellä missä valo ennen kuin kehä katkeaa ja sielu murtuu Tuhkan keskellä seison hehkellä viimeisen Kuvaani minä katson pimeästä heijastuvaa Temppelin harmaa kivi tomuksi jo hajonnut Tuhon aamu kajastaa Matkan pää jo odottaa Tämä on… loppu, loppu, loppu, loppu | Given at birth No tomorrow in our future Heart bleeding fire No grace acknowledged The space between the beginning and the end Filled with yearning for destruction My temple is not strong enough To carry the weight of my altar This is not an ending But the end, the end, the end Given at birth what we are Following the blood trail of history We go towards our doom This is not an ending But the end, the end, the end Now there is darkness where light once was the circle breaks and the soul crumbles In the ashes I stand at the last moment Staring at my own image Reflecting from the darkness Gray stone of the temple Crumbled to dust The dawn of doom is here The end of the journey is waiting This is… the end, the end, the end, the end |
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