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LAMB OF GOD - Wrath
| Billboard |
| This veteran Virginia metal act has been steadily working its way out of the underground for the last decade, earning a Grammy Award nomination for a track from 2006's "Sacrament" and opening for Metallica on the latter's American arena tour late last year. The benefits of that increasing mainstream renown can be heard on the band's third major-label disc in the form of a production job more elaborate than on any previous release. Cuts like "In Your Words" and "Grace" cover an impressive amount of sonic ground, from delicate acoustic atmospherics to full-on rhythmic pummeling. Yet with frontman Randy Blythe's guttural growl—not to mention his bile-soaked lyrics about religious hypocrisy—this is hardly a bid for an active-rock breakthrough. Resolutely uncompromising.—Mikael Wood...full text |
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| Prefixmag |
| America’s most recognizable death metal band is arguably known more for their extensive festival circuit tour than their albums. Though they grew up in the alternative/hip-hop metal heyday of the 90s, Lamb of God’s taste is strictly in the Pantera/Megadeth tradition, which has only benefitted the band in the era of groove-heavy metal like Meshuggah and Mastodon. Nonetheless, in an all-too common theme that keeps metal fans rumbling since—well, since there’s been metal, Lamb of God has become yet another chart-topping metal band that gets no respect/coverage from the mainstream press. Their last album, 2006’s Sacrament, was a fan favorite that peaked at #8 on Billboard and received a Grammy nomination in 2007 (but hey, at least it got a review in Rolling Stone!) Will the band get more major press recognition in 2009 with Wrath, their sixth album? Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe sure hopes so....full text |
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| Spin |
| The latest outburst of controlled aggression from these veteran Virginia metallurgists proves that consistency is a blessing and a curse. As always, the palm-muted jackhammer riffs and Randy Blythe's elastic denunciations of liars, hypocrites, and lying hypocrites are frightfully precise. Even the album's construction is unwavering -- every fifth track opens with delicate guitar filigrees. But primally satisfying as it is, the band's meat-and- taters thrash leaves one hungry for some Mastodon- style lateral thinking. Or not: The conflation of 9/11 and ecological ruin on "Reclamation" ends the slaughter in spectacularly blockheaded style....full text |
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