Search - Xalt :: Under the Ruins

Boring.

D. B. Batten | Wake Forest, NC USA | 07/28/2006

(2 out of 5 stars)

"After having there Dark War tape {1988} I was really looking forward to this album. I was hoping that Xalt would become one of the big Christian Heavy metal power houses. Maybe they would spit out some good hard and heavy Christian metal.

No, there is not much improvement over Dark War.

All the problems with Christian Metal seem to be on this album.

Mainly your audience was Christian and every bloody Christian band sang the same thing rock for the rock, find Jesus, Jesus forgives, your Christian listeners already know this give them some meat to grow by not the same old baby stuff...yes have a salvation song but enough is enough {on every album I heard the same thing just put a little deferent but not much. Man! I guess originality went out the window...it did here}

This album is better than History which is just commercial rock.

Although the music on Dark war and this one are good the vocals are boring along with the lyrics {lyrics will only appeal to Christians and yet these bands wanted to reach out to a lost world?}... If I could do away with the vocals and lyrics here the album would be good.

No!! I never put this one in the CD player ... It is just too boring ...too bad.

...Excellent cover art on this one and Dark War.

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