Winter is severe, and Kaamos Warriors comes with it.
Created in 2018, the band is formed with Jani Moilanen (guitar) and Mikko Ojala (guitar/vocals, Dark the Suns). A first full-length is released in 2019, then the band recruits Jyri Moilanen on bass, and releases a second album the same year. 2020 marks the release of Kirous, their third album.
Even if the duo evolved as a three-piece band, nothing has changed into Kaamos Warriors’ music. The sound is cold, riffs pick into Black and Death Metal as well as into Finnish sonorities. Leads easily find their place between howlings and this as solid as dark rhythmic, which is the witness of a true instrumental mastery, but also of the violent musical direction and of the styles that makes the band’s identity.
The album is still quite short, but those eight songs give us the desire to enter this warlike universe with piercing harmonics, just like on Askeleet, with surprising female backing vocals. Riffs are as effective as majestic on Luilu and Tuonentuoja, bringing heaviness, or on the virulent Tuli that highlights the Black Metal aspect of the band. Darkness lead once again the composition on Kirous, the eponymous song, but also for Totuus, a disturbing but still catchy song. Usva testifies once again of the trio’s catchy capacity thanks to folkloric influences, as well as on Elävän tulen liekki, the last song.
Very prolific, Kaamos Warriors doesn’t slow down. Kirous is an as interesting album as the previous ones were, which add effective compositions to the band’s weaponry.
80/100
