Last week, Richmond metal heavyweights Lamb Of God made their return with Checkmate – taken from their upcoming self-titled album. It’s the first new music we’ve heard from Lamb Of God since their 2015 album VII: Sturm Und Drang, and sees frontman Randy Blythe share his rather negative views on the American political system. The song was chosen by guitarists Mark Morton and Willie Adler to be the lead single, giving us a taste of what’s to come from LOG’s first proper full-length in five years (if you ignore their 2018 covers album Legion: XX). “It’s the most one the nose politically, but this whole record is political,” Randy Blythe tells Kerrang!. “There’s not a single song [on the album] about an individual. “When we had [Geo...
