Posted January 27, 200916 yr http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/ff/Lamb_of_God_-_Wrath.JPG Tracklisting: # The Passing # In Your Words # Set to Fail # Contractor # Fake Messiah # Grace # Broken Hands # Dead Seeds # Everything to Nothing # Choke Sermon # Reclamation Set To Fail BZ5ooa6pyWM Contractor IZvBFI-w2Bs
January 27, 200916 yr Author Inside Lamb of God’s “Wrath”: Metal Band Unleash Straight-Up Thrash on New Album 2008 was meant to be the year Virginia metal band Lamb of God learned the importance of being idle. After pumping out four studio albums since 2000 and filling the gaps with seemingly endless touring, the members wanted nothing more than to take the whole year to do absolutely nothing. By April, they were jamming and writing new material. The result is Wrath, Lamb of God’s most frenzied album in over half a decade. Its predecessor, Sacrament, debuted at Number Eight in 2006, but what made that record succeed isn’t a formula drummer Chris Adler is keen on repeating. “We were learning more about what we would do differently next time than about what we could do with that record,” Adler said. “The goal for me this time was to make a straight-up, heavy metal, thrash record that doesn’t rely on any studio magic.” And after a moody opening instrumental, Wrath delivers just that. “In Your Words” jump starts the album, as Randy Blythe bellows — trying out a new, borderline melodic voice — about “A sacred cash cow with sickly tits,” a line the rest of the band didn’t want on the album and which serves as a veiled commentary on the music industry. After the reflective Sacrament, a deeply personal album that found Blythe exorcising his personal demons, Wrath turns its lyrical focus outward, and returns to more of the breakneck riffing that characterized the band’s early material. For Adler, a change in producers (from the single-monikered Machine to Josh Wilbur) was the kick in the pants that his band needed to recapture its more visceral side. “I think in many ways we caged the animal that we were for Machine,” Adler said. “We were limiting ourselves in what we were really best at doing, which is writing fast thrash metal songs. Working with Josh helped us remember those things about our own band that had been kind of pushed aside on the last two records.” The best example of Lamb of God unchained is “Contractor,” a full-on rager that blows down the door and only gets faster. The lyrics are a mile-a-minute stream of invective directed at murder-for-hire groups like Blackwater, with Blythe squeezing in lines like, “Yeah, motherf***er, lets take a ride/We’re rolling Route Irish, someone has got to die/Trick or treat, it’s IEDs,” between jackhammer riffs. “Mark [Morton, guitarist]and I have always wanted to write a punk rock song, and that song, to me, sounds like Discharge,” Blythe said. “It was really cool to step back and do something with a visceral, immediate impact.” “Reclamation,” the album’s closing track and the longest in the band’s career, gets progressive and downright apocalyptic. The song, which Blythe cites as his favorite on the album, was originally slated to be an instrumental. In his best vocal performance to date, Blythe wails, “And everything becomes irrelevant as the sky tears open/Fire rains down, the fourth world comes to an end,” and as the claustrophobic guitars grow more and more asphyxiating, it’s not difficult to see the band’s image of watching the world burn. “It’s about how we’re destroying ourselves and the world around us, and that sooner or later, the tipping point will be reached,” Adler said. “The message in that song is just so great that it was really important to have that on the record.” Wrath will be released February 24th on Epic Records, and the band hits the road in North America with As I Lay Dying, God Forbid and Children of Bodom in April.
January 27, 200916 yr Can't wait for the album... I don't like Contractor though... it sounds like a step down... :(
January 27, 200916 yr Oh interesting, I'd love to hear the ending track. Wonder how long it is, Metallica surely has the record for the longest? The progressive tracks truly are immense.. Them touring with As I Lay Dying and CoB just reminded me how much I love them more than LoG, interesting touring combination too. Anyways, another must-buy on the list. .
January 27, 200916 yr Oh interesting, I'd love to hear the ending track. Wonder how long it is, Metallica surely has the record for the longest? The progressive tracks truly are immense.. Them touring with As I Lay Dying and CoB just reminded me how much I love them more than LoG, interesting touring combination too. Anyways, another must-buy on the list. . I like LoG more than AILD and CoB. :P Sacrament = As The Palaces Burn > Ashes of the Wake >> New American Gospel Edited January 27, 200916 yr by funmaker11
January 27, 200916 yr Oh interesting, I'd love to hear the ending track. Wonder how long it is, Metallica surely has the record for the longest? Opeth have, on "Morningrise" in particular, done tracks clocking in at 20 minutes Kath.... :lol: Celtic Frost closed "Monotheist" with a "tryptich" called "Requiem", a mighty 22 minute opus in three movements - Tottengott [4 mins], Synagoga Satanae [14 mins], and Winter [4 mins], truly an amazing work, and one hell of a way to close an album... And, I would give the mighty epics of Rush, Pink Floyd, Led Zep and Hawkwind a hearing as well..... Lamb of God are a fukkin' incredible band though, they were one of the bands that I cited earlier in 2008 (before DM came out) that had made Metallica somewhat redundant..... :lol: :lol: Then the old buggers only went and did Death Magnetic didn't they....? LOL......
February 24, 200916 yr :w00t: Top 10 in Tuesdays Midweeks! :w00t: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: Edited February 24, 200916 yr by funmaker11
February 27, 200916 yr The sheer fukkin' rage and brutality in this album is astounding, fukk the likes of sodding Trivium.... I hate to say it, but Lamb of God make Slayer sound weak, Tom, Jeff, Dave and Kerry are gonna have to pull something absolutely fukkin' almighty to combat this utter fukkin' RIFFMONSTER..... I'd thought their quote in Metal Hammer about not being afraid of Metallica was a touch of arrogance or hubris, but, Christ, not when they actually have backed it up with something this impressive.... Just when I think the Metal genre cant really surprise me anymore, along comes "The Blackening", "Death Magnetic", "Watershed", and now "Wrath".. This just could be the best Metal album of 2009 guys.... And we have the new Mastodon album to come as well pretty soon... OH MY........
February 27, 200916 yr The album might settle in Top 40 which is an achievement, the same as Watershed by Opeth. The sheer fukkin' rage and brutality in this album is astounding, fukk the likes of sodding Trivium.... I hate to say it, but Lamb of God make Slayer sound weak, Tom, Jeff, Dave and Kerry are gonna have to pull something absolutely fukkin' almighty to combat this utter fukkin' RIFFMONSTER..... I'd thought their quote in Metal Hammer about not being afraid of Metallica was a touch of arrogance or hubris, but, Christ, not when they actually have backed it up with something this impressive.... Just when I think the Metal genre cant really surprise me anymore, along comes "The Blackening", "Death Magnetic", "Watershed", and now "Wrath".. This just could be the best Metal album of 2009 guys.... And we have the new Mastodon album to come as well pretty soon... OH MY........ Completely agreeing in you (maybe not the Slayer bit just like what Tom Araya said :P), especially the upcoming Mastodon album this year. Don't forget My Dying Bride and Sigh if you know them. :D
February 28, 200916 yr Blashpemy! Well, sorry mate, but compare "Wrath" to "Christ Illusion"..... :lol: :lol: I'm afraid "Wrath" just pishes on it IMO, in fact, looking at it in hindsight, I think "God Hates Us All" was a better Slayer album than "Christ Illusion", I think I just got all excited about CI when it came out because it was Dave's return to the band..... Still, it could prove positive... And Slayer WILL pull something almighty out of the hat just like Metallica did last year to prove to everyone that they're still the Extreme Metal daddies..... The more bloody AWESOME Metal with all these bands trying to outdo one another the better for us Metalheads......
February 28, 200916 yr Well, sorry mate, but compare "Wrath" to "Christ Illusion"..... :lol: :lol: I'm afraid "Wrath" just pishes on it IMO, in fact, looking at it in hindsight, I think "God Hates Us All" was a better Slayer album than "Christ Illusion", I think I just got all excited about CI when it came out because it was Dave's return to the band..... CI was patchy, tbh i f***ing love God Hates Us All, imo its the best thing they've done since Seasons In The Abyss even with Divine Intervention having 2 of my fave Slayer songs (Dittohead and Circle of Beliefs) on it. I've listened to some songs on Wrath and tbh its not summat i'll buy but then again i've never really been keen on Lamb Of God. With that track i posted up a few weeks ago (pychopathy red) if they can keep the tracks at that level or better then i think the new Slayer album will $h!t on most things that have been released in the past year.
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