The music - good.
The vocals - horrendous. Pretty hilarious.

Didn't like anything about this album. Move along people.

Probably the worst album they've ever made (though Dominion and Siége Perilous aren't that much better tbh). Glad they have made a bunch of better albums after these initial 3 albums.

Just skip the first 3 albums, they don't even come close to most of the albums after that.

I've read some horrendous review of this and judging by the comments here it's a less known fact that Kamelots first albums are bad. This is however totally wrong, Kamelot had a great start releasing two decent albums that are USPM sounding instead of the european power metal they later implemented. The songs here have really good structure with often the rythm section providing some great background to the guitars. I couldn't name a single bad song here, still there are not that many that reaches the heights of "great".

The vocalist usually gets some slack and he's no Geoff Tate which he tries often to imitate but he's still very solid for this kind of music and adds more than he takes away.

Check this one out if you like old school power metal. This is better than at least 90% of the power metal albums released today but back in the the 90's when competition was tight it just didn't cut it to become anything more than the start of something bigger.

Written by majormalfunction on 17.12.2018 at 17:18

I've read some horrendous review of this and judging by the comments here it's a less known fact that Kamelots first albums are bad. This is however totally wrong, Kamelot had a great start releasing two decent albums that are USPM sounding instead of the european power metal they later implemented. The songs here have really good structure with often the rythm section providing some great background to the guitars. I couldn't name a single bad song here, still there are quite few that reaches the heights of "great".

The vocalist usually gets some slack and he's no Geoff Tate which he tries often to imitate but he's still very solid for this kind of music and adds more than he takes away.

Check this one out if you like old school power metal. This is better than at least 90% of the power metal albums released today but back in the the 90's when competition was tight it just didn't cut it to become anything more than the start of something bigger.

Good debut, indeed.
Better than most (!) of what followed here.

It's not so bad as the rating suggests!

Kamelots first couple albums are very good imo, verry different to the style they are known for though.

This first album definitely shows its age, power metal in its simplest and most uninteresting form