Khoma

Khoma (formerly coma ) is a Progressive-/Post-Rock-Band founded in 2002 from Umeå, Sweden.

History

The three founding members January Jämte (vocals), John Persson (guitar) and Fredrik Kihlberg (vocals, piano) met in the nineties in the Swedish city of Umeå Hardcore, eg International Noise Conspiracy, Meshuggah, Refused earlier is also home to the College. After a few years they started jamming in 2002 to seriously work on their music and ultimately receive an EP that was released limited after two more years. The scale had with tentative edition of 1000 copies tsunami despite the unconventional blend of progressive metal, tough rock riffs and comparable with the newer Mogwai post-rock success and was subsequently re-released again with a circulation of 1,000 CDs.

Since all members of the band are clamped in various other projects (eg Cult of Luna, The Perishers ), has proceeded only slowly even after the first success of the motivating progress of the band. The second album, in addition to rough metal riffs also includes ballads and is at all unusual text -heavy, came despite a lot of material and energy in 2006 under the major label Roadrunner Records on the market and found next to Sweden and the UK, also in Germany buyers and intercession with the critics.

Idealism

Not only in the lyrics, the band expresses critical of society, all three members express liberal, feminist, anarchist and socialist approaches and advocate in various organizations. Great value in its commitment takes on a detached view angle with respect to the media presence, which they criticize some sharp for Coated awareness and imbalance, but also respect the benefits. Her settings are no clear statements are published, but they gave on their website a detailed and annotated list of the individual topics.

Discography

• 2004: Tsunami
• 2006: The Second Wave
• 2010: A Final Storm
• 2012: All erodes