Album review: Lamb Of God – Omens

Randy Blythe once told Kerrang! he reckoned he’d be done by now. He didn’t want to still be doing Lamb Of God when he was 50, he shrugged, insisting that it’s not something anybody would ever need to see. Too late – he turned 51 this year. And yet even with all his apparent resistance to it (on another occasion, when asked what he was going to quit next, having sworn off drink and then cigarettes, one of his bandmates is said to have beat him to the half-joking answer: ​“Lamb Of God”), he and his band, like Slayer before them, remain firm at the front of metal. Even the departure of drummer Chris Adler has done squat to dent things. There is no surprise, then, that Omens finds the Virginia metal bruisers returning sounding as reliably heavy, violent, and pissed-off as ever. No matter ...

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