WOUNDED LAND

1. Consume to Live quick intro space time to warm up the ears, in 93 it's good; Richard's synth and hard riff before Damian, who will play on a number of groups, puts his beautiful voice into action, I'm thinking of LANDMARQ; break.. too fast halfway through; let's be clear about good, well-paced melodic prog metal with a good place for Richard and Karl, it's good but I'm missing something 2. Days of Dearth heavy tribal percussion intro leading to a languorous oriental guitar solo; air on a DEEP PURPLE, a MALMSTEEN, slow and heavy pompous, in their style 3. Sanity's End for one of the 2 titles of more than 10 minutes with a slow folded rhythm, an echoing variation to enhance Damian, the expressive break between prog metal and prog metal not nervous enough and the air too melodic; after that it is the style of THRESHOLD not to deny them their sound; 4. Paradox continues on the same line with here a soaring synth break which gives more relief, spleen and which lets the finale fly away with more enthusiasm

5. Surface to Air with the clear, romantic ballad, piano and flute to settle down; nay, just the intro, a heavy metronomic riff creates trouble; the break is just terrible, Nick strums very well too and brings a linear variation with choirs to rest from this magnificent moment; calm, solemn, Olympian finale and a title that passed very quickly 6. Mother Earth with a very hard intro riff, more than a SYMPHONY very good and very engaging, ah if everyone were of this ilk to bewitch you like this 7. Siege of Baghdad ... return to an oriental air, something I love; precise nervous riff and Damian who imposes it, why did he leave this cad on the 2nd album in fact? This tune shows all the power of THRESHOLD which must be classified more metal above all; paf break divine Andalusian or Persian arpeggio choose, it's classy; the gentle finale which follows with 8. Keep It with Mine and its true nursery rhyme-ballad completes a magnificent album from this new group with this bucolic, romantic and suave air. 9. Extra intervention... to remind me why I had trouble with them; too monolithic, too predictable, lacks those real breaks that make you go, in short!

THRESHOLD was a heavyweight and could have remained so without the leak of his killer vocals, that's my opinion.