review by: ~Vargscarr~

This album makes me think of dinosaurs. I want to call this Dinosaur Metal. The tracks plod and hop along; taking the listener back...back...back to a world before man, when the world was ruled by giant lizards plodding through the undergrowth in corpse-paint, trampling everything in their path beneath their feet; useless forelimbs clutching guitars and picking heavy, bassy rhythms to accompany their progress through existence as they bang their massive heads in time to each thundering step. Dammit Beavis, even the faster bits of this album sound reminiscent of those leaping Gallamimuses from Jurassic Park.

Musically this really isn't bad, although *unless* you want to hear the aural equivalent of the life and times of the Terrible Lizards (which I hope to the chunky Xtian god is what "Khold" actually translates to) this album won't offer that much to you. The songs are samey, so if you like one you'll like them all; but they're not as atmospheric as the band want us to feel they are. They simply fail to captivate the listener in the way others do.

Khold - if you're reading this - please stop what you're doing and think about the dinosaur thing. Literally every track on this album works with this image; you'd just need some GWAR-like costumes and a change of lyrical direction (Hell, I don't understand the lyrics anyway - I've already translated them in my mind to things like "stomp-ing through the jung-le...eat-ing lots of leeeeaves...fight-ing a tyrannosaur" etc etc - if you listen to the vocal arrangements you'll see what I mean)...You could go so far with this.

In short, if you like slow, bassy, Blackish Metal then pick this up; it's fun and it's not really bad. I'll listen to it now and again, now that I have it. Background music. Music to listen to for a change to make your other CDs sound better. Buy it because you're a dinosaur fan (and who isn't?) and you won't be disappointed at all - museums badly need this CD.