Lamb of God

Consistently boasting an angry brew of confrontational lyrics venomously gurgled over urgent, brooding guitars and technically precise, groove-oriented drums, LoG have become an easy-to-recognize brand. Without entirely abandoning those schematics, Wrath sees some song structure experimentation ("Broken Hands"), moving away from the verse-hook-verse standard ("Set to Fail"), while tightening the overall chops and incorporating outside influences ("Choke Sermon"). The whole package shows off why these guys are America's death metal darlings.

Ostensibly political Richmond, Virginia, thrashers Lamb of God have rarely sounded as
distinctive as their rep among a growing cult starved for quality American metal suggests.
On their sixth album, Wrath, the fearsome fivesome opt for a somewhat varied but hardly
visionary attack mode, occasionally lurching into a groove or tune. The song titles betray a
cynicism over military and religious affairs, but growl-to-screech front-monster... More >