Metal Reviews

I really liked the new Lamb Of God album, but I'll admit that you have to appreciate hardcore vocals to really get into the album.

To anyone who has seen them live: I saw them a few years ago at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, and Blythe had this weird patch of hair on his shoulder blade... does he still have it, or did he shave it off? I was really impressed when I saw them live, and I tried to find their album after I heard them, but I couldn't remember their name... only that the lead singer had this.... thing... on his back.

He sounds like a death metal vocalist to me. I relly dig Ahes Of The wake.
As to Slayer I saw them just once in Newcastle Australia many years ago and it remains to this day the best mixed metal show I have ever seen.
The volume and clarity of the mix was simply brilliant. The thing that got me is that it was not too loud. You could hear all the subtle guitar harmonies. Really quite amazing.

So hey maybe you have seen Slayer three times and they had a bad night. Who knows?

I think it depends on the accoustics of the venue as well.. where I saw them (the Shaw Conference Center in Edmonton) has excellent accoustics and they sounded extremely good. The faster stuff was no more or less intelligible than listening to a CD (despite the fact they tend to play it faster live).

Not nesecarily true, I hate hardcore vocals, but I love this band. Maybe because the vocals don't sound as "hardcore" to me.

i dont think they are hardcore vocals, because the grunts and growls that he inserts totaly over power the "hardcore vocals" and he drags out the words longer so infact its not really hardcore vocals, listen to terror, thats hardcore vocals

http://www.purevolume.com/terror

That patch of hair is always there, and its name is Delmar

Well seem as the topic of LoG has been brought up again I might as well give my opinion of them. I have all 4 albums by them now and one of my favourite activities when ive got a couple of hours to kill is to sit down and listen to Burn the Priest, then go chronologically through to Ashes of the Wake. All of them are amazing albums in their own right, their sound has changed significantly with each album, especially Randy's voice. To listen to the Randy of BTP and then the Randy of Ashes, it almost sounds like a different vocalist. I am an unashamed LoG fanboy and I am quite happy to rip out the spinal cord of anyone who labels them metalcore.

Is there any problem with calling them good Metalcore?

Isn't that an oxymoron?

Not neccessarily. It seems like it sometimes, but it's not.

As with any genre, there's the good and the bad, and Lamb Of God is with the few good Metalcore bands.

We need a new name for bands that are like metalcore - but without the part about it having to suck. I was gonna say New Wave of American Heavy Metal, but a crappy metalcore magazine I saw once already called bands like slipknot NWOAHM :(

American Metal sounds just fine to me. I see no "New Wave" in any of it.

Why can't all you pathetic shitheads just don't accept that you like some of metalcore?

hey ! I have no problem accepting it...

imo, there's good shit in every genre, sometimes I find it harder to find it. like in death metal for example... :roll:

Wasn't talking to you my dearest friend, exactly my point! Now let me kiss your ass.

I have to admit this CD disappointed me a little bit. "As the Palaces Burn" had great songs and shitty production, while this album has great production and good songs, no real standouts.

One of my gripes with this band is that a lot of their songs sound very much the same. Almost to the point where it's difficult to distinguish one from another sometimes. I think that's my gripe with this album. The songs are just too same sounding and don't at all deviate much from what LOG did on ATPB. Also, I just find it so strange that an album like this made the Billboard Top 200 at #27. I hate to admit it, but that almost spoils it for me.

I personally just don't think they're very good

What the fuck? I remember the review being different the first time I read it? I could have sworn the reviwer made some comment about the release of this album being "an oversaturation of the market" or something to that effect. Did you guys change the review or am I totally on drugs ???

OK seriously, this review was changed at somepoint. I know it was different before. I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. I AM NOT CARZY DAMNIT. YOU CHANGED IT JUST LIKE WHEN THEY CHANGED THE MATRIX, YOU BASTARDS YOU WON'T GET AWAY WITH THIS!!!!