THE LATEST WITH KAAMORA

Line-up Changes
Many people would have worked out by now that Kaamora have been very quiet over the last couple of months. The hiatus occurred because both Aaron (bass) and Jason (guitar) left the group. The reasons why Aaron and Jase left the band is different and it is not our way to get involved in a lengthy explanation.

The band members and management just wish to express their thanks and appreciation for all the work that Aaron and Jase did developing the band and creating the sound of the first incarnation of Kaamora. 




Rumours

What we want to address is the rumour that Kaamora is defunct. Nothing is further from the truth. On the contrary the remaining members of the band are working harder than before, to bring more chaotic, faster, and technical elements to the sound.

The band has much new material to resolve, heaps of jamming and auditioning to do. So it will be a wee bit before the band hits the stage again. The band wants to ensure that  large catalog of tunes is created so they can take the best songs to the stage. The sound is going to be heavier, which means, some off ‘Lambs to the Slaughter’ EP will not be brutal enough.  The band is not saying it will ages until they’re back, but when they do come back, some fans might be shocked. So be prepared!!!!




The band is positive that people will get into the new material and we hope to see you at the relaunch of Kaamora.  If you want to keep up the news about what is happening with Kaamora then ensure you are following this blog, twitter or even make sure you are friends on Myspace and/or Facebook.




Finally, again the band wishes to express their appreciation and thanks to the people that have supported Kaamora and hope you will some you future support by turning up to a gig

Will X, Luke and Dyl (aka Kaamora)



Band Positions

The band’s bass player position has been filled and who that person is will be revealed with the relaunch of Kaamora.  Obviously, the band is still seeking a guitarist with a passion for death/black metal genre. This means people into anything like Guns N Roses and similar ilke need NOT apply.  The band is after someone you can input another layer onto our dark sound.

Please contact the band through Myspace , Facebook  or the Kaamora website, if interested.

SCoRCHeR FeST: national festival for unsigned artists/bands

SCoRCHeR FeST Happenings:

Kaamora are doing two gigs in the national SCoRCHER FeST for umsigned bands.

ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, DUKE OF YORK HOTEL, 21 MARCH

The first gig will be in Adelaide at the Duke of York Hotel, 82 Currie Street, which is in the CBD, on Sunday March 21st.  This will be Kaamora's first trip outside Victoria and basically this is a trip to promote the band to another audience.

SCoRCHeR FeST doors open around 11:00am and the even closes at 9:00pm. Tickets cost $15.00 from the venue ( Duke of York ) or the SCoRCHeR FeST people.  Kaamora hit the Balcony Bar stage around 8:40pm and will close the gig. The Balcony Bar is got to be by going UP or so the band has been told.

If you want the $10 ticket you can get it by going to the band's Big Cartel Store.

Hopefully, there will be some people there to see us.  If you do get to see us please take the opportunity to say hi: even tell us what you think of our music.  The band just hopes it doesn't scare away people like they did at a competition at the Espy Hotel in St.Kilda where Kaamora was the heaviest and brutal band in the mix.   :)


MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, ESPLANADE HOTEL (ESPY), 28 MARCH


The SCoRCHeR FeST moves to Melbourne on Sunday 28 March.  This time the event will be held in all the rooms/bars of the iconic Espy Hotel, Upper Esplanade, St.Kilda.  The venue has seen the blood and sweat of numerous national and international acts for many decades.  Indeed, the beer soaked carpet in the Gershwin Room enjoyed its own fame: reinforced by Rockwiz. 


The SCoRCHeR FeST doors open at 12 noon and close at 1:00am Monday morning.  Again tickets cost the $15 if you get them from the Espy or SCoRCHeR FeST  


As usual if you require the cheaper tickets you can get them from the Kaamora Big Cartel Store or from other bands performing in the festival


At this point the band has not been told the definite whereabouts of their gig at the Espy but they believe it will be in the Gershwin Room around 9:00pm.  The actual place and time of Kaamora's gig will be confirmed as soon as possible on myspace, reverbnation, and facebook. 


The band is hoping those people that have seen them at Vedette, Inflation, HiFi Bar, Arthouse, and The NoiseBar can get along to part-take not only in the music but being part of the SCoRCHeR FeST doco-drama that is being made about the festival.  So if you want you face on the vid get down to the Kaamora session and get brutal.


Kaamora hopes to see you all at the SCoRCHeR FeST.


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An Australian Metal Compilation 2 Disc Set

Welkin Entertainment is about to release 'The Euphony Fusion III' compilation of Australian metal. This 2 CD set is bound for peeps who are attending the Australian concerts of Arch Enemy.   Welkin Entertainment will be handing out 'free' copies of the CD at these concerts in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

 This 2CD compilation features 25 a wide variety of metal genres, from across the country.  Only 1000 copies of this compilation are available, and all will be handed out for free at the conclusion of each show on the ARCH ENEMY, SUFFOCATION and WINDS OF PLAGUE Australian tour, taking place from November 1-7.

Kaamora is chuffed to be associated with this product and encourages people to have a listen to bands such as Internal Nightmare, Be'Lakor, Frankenbok, Black Orchid, Fearescape to name a few.  The boys from Kaamora actually encourages everyone to listen to every band on the CD's as it shows that metal in this country is 'brutal' quality.


Remember, this package in only being handed out at the Arch Enemy concert. If you want, what will probably become a collectors item, get yourself down one of the gigs.  Get hold The Euphony Fusion III, play it to your friends, get them to bug radio stations like TripleJ to get more metal on the air waves.

JASE GOES KRANKY

KRANK TO THE WORLD

After months of research, asking other musos, testing different amps in shops, saving money, and finally with his Dad stepping in to close the deal, Jase has acquired a new toy. Just look at the pictures as they express more than words the joy it has given Jase.

The new Krank Rev+1 head and the Krank cab have had an immediate impact on the band's tone. The mix of Will's Laney and Jase's Krank has excited the band because of the tone being produced.


By coming along to the Central Club, Swan Street, Richmond on September 19th you will be able to hear the new tone.

Will X, is a dude of few words, but when he says something one needs to take notice. He said to 'the chief' that the new tone " is likely to make your jaw drop

All the band needs now is Will Borland, Krank's Australian rep, to come along to the band's next gig on September 19, at Central Club, Richmond, to wet (speaking figuratively) the addition of the new amp into the Kaamorian brotherhood.

Next cab of the rank is Aaron. He has already spotted a bass rig he would like. So stay tuned for news for further equipment upgrade...this is becoming sound race between the fellahs. :-)

Pic: Jase w/Krank at first jam session

KAAMORA UPDATE FROM JASE

An update on all things Kaamora

Hey guys,

It's been 4 months since the release of Lambs to the Slaughter. The reaction from the CD has made those 4 months seem like an figging eternity!

At the moment we're working closely with producer John Chase to put a filmclip together. We just finished putting the draft storyboard together, after many hours of coffee, smokes and bourbon to get the imagination juices flowing. It's exciting to think that we're doing this shit after only gigging for a year. Considering this is a band that was originally intended to be something to do on the weekend, I think we're doing pretty frigging well!

We've been updating all our gear since the start of the year. Will and I are now playing Jackson guitars (thank you K. Rudd), and I've kicked the old Behringer amp out the door and gotten myself a Krank Rev1+ (nice)! The amp is so loud at 1, it shakes the walls. At 4 it's uncomfortable to stand next to. I haven't had the testicular fortitude to turn it all the way up to 10 yet!

Over the next few months we have a few radio interviews lined up in Australia and the US. This is interesting shit, because most of us haven't even set foot in a radio station before!

Our first ever radio interview will be for The Heavy Session on 3CR, 855 AM (Melbourne) on the 18th of September at about 11:30 pm EST. Fans outside Melbourne can listen on the internet at http://www.3cr.org.au/.

This is the night before our first Melbourne headlining slot at the Central Club in Richmond. The 19th happens to be my favorite day of the year; International Speak Like a Pirate Day! YARRRRRRRRRRR!

We better see some bandannas and eye patches there!

Quietly, we've gotten the old 15 watt amps out and started songwriting again a few nights a week. Will and I have tried writing on our good equipment, but it just wasn't right. So it's back to sitting in my lounge room, with bourbon and either my laptop of a crappy old tape player, bashing out riffs relentlessly, putting songs together.

We really want to keep our mystique on the new music, but all I can really give away is that we're going to try for a full length album this time (about 60-70 minutes in length), and that last time Will and I wrote together, our drinks of choice were Woodstock and Jim Beam and our attitude was "if it's not good enough to remember, it's not good enough to keep".

We've still got the same attitude, but we've changed our drink of choice to Wild Turkey.

Luke has stated that he'll be singing more on the album too, and we've been experimenting with organ and keyboard sounds too.

We've also been listening to a lot of Death, Lamb of God and Amon Amarth lately, and Dyl's gotten us into Porcupine Tree.

We're really playing around with dynamics, and experimenting with starting a song in one style or genre, and morphing it into another, so gradually that you hardly notice the change until the end of the song!

We're not putting a date on when the album will be recorded yet, we'll be waiting until the writing is finished before we even think about that. But we'll be bringing some of the new music out at shows occasionally.

Thank you to all of you guys for supporting us! The last 4 months have been great, and we really appreciate the encouragement we've been receiving. It's comforting to know that, regardless of bullshit musical trends and what the 'experts' say, there are still people who want to listen to heavy music for the artform that it is, and that headbanging is still alive and kicking!

There are plenty of bands out there like Bezerkerfox, Internal Nightmare, Nous, Damnations Day and Order of Torment who are still in it purely for the love of music, and they deserve a lot of support.

Horns up guys, and we'll see you on the 19th, at the Central Club!

On behalf of the brotherhood that is Kaamora,

~Jase~

Gulf Coast Music Review

Gulf Coast Music Reviews got their hands on the EP Lambs to the Slaughter. What you will find below is that review. The reader should pay particular attention to the definition of 'death metal' provided by the reviewer. In our humble opinion it is one the better definitions we have come across.

Lambs to the Slaughter by Kaamora, 2009

My Review:

Heavy Metal: Music which is Profound (Heavy) and Gritty Sounding (Metal).

Whenever I do a review of a band which has chosen a genre which is not considered as being “mainstream” and is not as well known to the general public, I feel that it is only fair to everyone concerned, that is, not only to the group, but to my readers as well, that I give a little background material on their chosen genre, so that their music can be better understood. We must keep in mind that
music is a language meant for communication and unless we understand the language we cannot communicate with it.

First of all, Death Metal does not follow the usual “verse – chorus – verse” of traditional pop and pop rock music. It begins with a riff and than another and another until the song is complete. Second, Death metal bands tend to use complex language to describe the world in terms of its function and technologies. Death Metal music is very structured and in that respect, is closer to classical and baroque music than it is to rock. Unlike rock genres, there is almost a total absence of gender words and love songs. Its goal is not to affirm the emotions of the individual, but to point out the effects of structural change in the surrounding world. Death metal is not about emotional escapism. Death metal is about reality.

Probably one of the biggest complaints, especially from first time listeners of Death Metal, is that they can’t understand the lyrics. I have to admit that this is not always an easy task. Unlike other forms of music, in Death Metal the vocalist takes almost a secondary role to the music. The volume of the vocalist is usually slightly lower than that of the music. In Death Metal the music, not the vocalist, plays the central role. Secondly, rather than singing in a clear, melodious voice, the Death Metal vocalist uses low pitched “death growls” and high pitched “death rasp” screams. All this aside, if a person is truly interested in broadening their music horizons, by paying close attention to and repetitive listening, the lyrics of Death Metal, can and should be, understood.

Now on to Lambs to the Slaughter, by Kaamora. The name Kaamora or Caamora, means “to purge through use of fire”. Kaamora hails from the small town of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The central theme of this EP is the destruction of society by the very machines it has created. That by the “flip of a switch” the predator becomes the prey and that we are close to becoming a Matrix-like society. This is a classic Death Metal theme.

The first thing that impressed me is that listening to the full EP is like reading a book. Everything is in order and to further enhance this the lead-in tracks have been eliminated between several of the tracks so that they blend together as one. Since the player I use on this blog only plays one track at a time I had to combine tracks to demonstrate this effect. You’ll have to take my word that this is how it appears on the EP. The EP starts out with the eerie, short introduction, Into the Storm, which sets the mood and continues on, chapter after chapter, that is song after song, and finishes with End of an Aeon, that is the Aeon of man. By listening to this EP you catch a glimpse of the history and the fate of man. Of things past, and things yet to come.

I’ve never considered myself a “head banger”, but about halfway through the second track I found my head bobbing to the rhythmic beat! The music is that well written and the band plays superbly! Drummer Dyl Jones carries a heavy and steady beat, Lead guitarist Will X and bassist Aaron Thomas play-off against each other flawlessly and Emgee’s keyboards round out and add fullness to the music.

Vocalist Luke Greenwood can actually sing and has an amazing range, from the lowest “Death Growl” to the highest pitched “Death Rasp” scream! Even though he sings behind a wall of sound, his lyrics come through.

Kaamora may very well be setting a new standard and raising the bar of Heavy Metal/Death Metal for bands to come. I agree with the other reviews of this group. Kaamora should be fronting for a major Metal group and should be on a major label within a year!

If you are a Heavy/Death Metal fan, you owe it to yourself to purchase a copy of Lambs to the Slaughter by Kaamora. If you are not a fan of Heavy/Death Metal, you should buy a copy of Lambs to the Slaughter, anyway, as a means of broadening you musical horizons and becoming more eclectic in your musical tastes. 9 out of 10 and a thumbs up for Lambs to the Slaughter, by Kaamora!

By Bill Dwyer

People should check out the other reviews that Bill has completed. What is interesting about Bill's reviews is that he covers a wide range of music genres.

KAAMORA FEATURED BAND

KAAMORA: this week we are the featured band on Metal Heads United Australia. It is a little humbling to find the band featured on such a well presented and known Australian Myspace Metal supporter.

You can see what Metal Heads had to say about Kaamora by going the Metal Heads United myspace page

Recently, Kaamora has been reviewed by Wren Music Reviews in the UK and Gulf Music Reviews in Florida USA.