Lamb Of God – ‘Lamb Of God’

Since their formation in the mid-late 90s, Lamb Of God have become one of the biggest, most successful and most enduring bands in heavy music. They seem to be one of those rare bands that are liked, or at least respected, by hardened underground metalheads and casual, surface-level metal fans alike and while their back catalogue couldn’t exactly be called faultless in terms of quality, albums such as ‘As The Palaces Burn’, ‘Ashes Of The Wake’ and ‘Sacrament’ are all rightly considered to be classics within the genre. This new self-titled effort is their first in five years and also the first to feature Winds Of Plague / Prong drummer Art Cruz in place of founding member Chris Adler, who departed the band last year. The decision to make this record self-titled is clearly a statement to the ...