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Threshold - Wounded Land

Artist:	Threshold
Title:	Wounded Land
Label:	Giant Electric Pea GEPCD1005
Length(s):	57 minutes
Year(s) of release:	1993
Month of review:	05/1993

Line up

Karl Groom - guitars, bass pedals
Richard West - keyboards, orchestration
Jon Jeary - bass, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Nick Midson - guitars
Damian Wilson - vocals
Tony Grinham - drums

Tracks

1)	Consume To Live	8.11
2)	Days Of Dearth	5.26
3)	Sanity's End	10.21
4)	Paradox	7.15
5)	Surface To Air	10.14
6)	Mother Earth	5.52
7)	Siege Of Baghdad	7.44
8)	Keep It With Mine	2.27

Summary

This is a translated version of an old review in Dutch.

The music

Threshold is a band who made symphonic metal into their own style. This has brought us a disc with long tracks in which the guitar plays the main role, but in which the keyboards give the music their symphonic (bombastic) touch. The gentlemen play an accessible, pumping kind of metal with little rest points with lyrics about the failure of mankind to create a livable world. The music is not very original and the variety is often hard to find. Not for nothing are the more varied songs, Paradox and Surface the best songs. The closing ballad Keep It With Mine comes as mustard after the meal. On the whole however, the music sounds good and it is hard to sit still while the band plays their brand of progmetal.

Conclusion

See above.