Beginning with this album, Root began to drift away from their traditional black metal-inflected sonority, seeing them advancing towards the hybridization of black and heavy metal they are currently famous for.

According to the band's frontman Big Boss, Kärgeräs is a concept album that tells the story of a tribe of warriors that "lived somewhere on this Earth.

[1] It comes with an 8-page booklet explaining the album's story, plus lyrics and their translation to the Czech language.

The track "Equirhodont/Grandiose Magus" eventually would share its name with the debut album of a side project formed by Big Boss in 2002, Equirhodont.

An acoustic music-inflected version of the track "Kärgeräs" previously appeared on his first solo album, Q7, from 1994.