Style: black metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: bitterness, pain, despicable emotions
Thoughts: Filth permeates this world. Most music won't touch the depths and the depravity that humanity has reached. Some will glimpse into it and will acknowledge that humans are flawed. Other bands though... bands like Khold stare into this mire and filth and embrace it.
Masterpiss of Pain is exactly what it sounds like. A miserable, lithesome album that does not pretend that everything will be alright. The music is slow, grinding, filthy, and filled with bitterness. The guitar tone is more like what you would hear from a sludge metal album rather than black metal. The bottom end is as heavy as most death metal bands... yet despite all of this the music is solidly black metal.
The vocals are a huge contributing factor to the anger and disgust on this album as well. They are a scratchy wheezing that aren't trying to impress anyone. In fact none of this is written to impress. It's about as simple as black metal can get. The riffs are slow (with minor bursts of speed) and ooze putrid filth with every note. The drums are nothing special either, they merely keep time... everything is barely functional, and that is the genius of Khold.
By keeping things as simple as they are the band tears away all distractions and lets the nastiness of the music to speak for itself. The music is barely holding its own, yet it drags me down into its mire with every single note, and I love it. Masterpiss of Pain is aptly titled, it tells the listener exactly what they are in store for: piss, pain, and the mastery of it.
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