Khold Albums Ranked
Khold is a Norwegian black metal band formed in Oslo in 2000 after the split-up of Tulus. The band plays mid-paced black metal. Khold was formed in Oslo in 2000. A demo was recorded in late 2000, which caused Khold to be signed by Moonfog. The first Khold album, Masterpiss of Pain, was released in 2001. Later in the year, Khold went touring in Europe to support the album. Khold’s second album, Phantom, was released in 2002. In late 2003, Khold recorded their third album Mørke gravers kammer, and also made a music video for the song “Død”. The album was released in 2004, through Candlelight Records. Khold went on yet another Norwegian tour in 2005, and then recorded their fourth album, Krek, which was released on 10 October by Tabu Records. Khold returned in 2008 with a new album, Hundre År Gammal, which was released on 9 June. After returning to the live scene in 2011 at the Wacken Open Air festival Khold has been playing a couple of festivals each year. In 2014, Khold released yet another critically acclaimed album entitled Til Endes and continue to perform at festivals throughout Europe and the US. In June 2021, Khold signed to Soulseller Records and they are expected to release their first album in eight years in 2022. Here are all of Khold albums ranked.
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6. Svartsyn
“Tulus, Khold & Sarke. That’s the artistic heritage of Mr. Berglie, a multi-instrumentist whose life has been spent in music coherence. Tulus is the Norwegian Black Metal contribution to the scene, with a monster bass & in their early releases a distinctive sound. Sarke is the eclectic project, with a wide series of influences & stylistic diversity. Khold was the momentary continuation of Tulus & one of the first black’n’roll genre-defining act, alongwith Barathrum.”
5. Hundre År Gammal
“If Helmet played black metal, they would sound like this. 90s Am/Rep noise rock meets black metal is the best way to describe Khold. Its like peanut butter and chocolate was many years ago, oddly intriguing, but damn does it ever work out for the best!”
4. Phantom
“The songwriting is solid. The style here is somewhat minimalistic black metal with a strong rhythmic component to it. The songs are typically under 4 minutes, and they each only consist of a few different repeating sections. The riffs are stoic and punchy, laden with a negative tonality that gives the music a very tense, even dangerous air. Meanwhile, the drumming is often closer to hard rock than black metal with its steady 4/4 beats. You could say that the album rocks while also generating a very ill-boding, nearly nihilistic atmosphere.”
3. Til Endes
“The overall approach, especially in the early parts of this album, made me nod my head in satisfaction while thinking about Tom Fischer. There’s a distinct early Celtic Frost vibe about this album in general, in how atmospheric details and odd sounds are given room, in how the songs just about always appears to include some form of minimalistic melody, in the manner in which alterations in pace and intensity are applied, as well as the overall dark, somewhat oppressive sound. I’d describe this as comparable in approach and execution rather than actually similar as such, but especially opening cut My does contain a few genuine similarities as well.”
2. Mørke gravers kammer
“The music creates a thoroughly dismal atmosphere through relatively simple means. The melody almost exclusively revolves around minor chords and dissonance, and there isn’t much harmonic movement or even strong lead melody, giving the music a deep feeling of negativity, reluctance, pain and finality – death. Although the music has a headbangable rhythm half of the time, the steady groove and overpowering energy more than anything serve to highlight the inevitability of whatever doom is approaching the listener. It really brings to mind a type of rock music that the grim reaper might produce, devoid of almost all uplifting qualities.”
1. Masterpiss of Pain
“I don’t think any band could have made a better attempt at putting out a debut that is at once retro and still hugely relevant today. There’s big fat props aplenty to bands like Darkthrone, but an even fatter production makes this an album that’s 100% up to date black metal, heavy, dark and catchy!. Yep, catchy as Norwegians Khold hold a melody together as if their contract depended on it. But I’m not worried that the band could get too immersed in their retro leanings because there’s too much good stuff on here to prevent that happening. Let’s just say they’re going to be big.”
