Lamb of
God’s new album VII: Sturm Und Drang (which means storm and stress in
German), in my opinion picks up right where their last album Resolution
left off. Resolution was such a great album, to follow it up was going
to be a challenge. The new album is brutal, honest, hammer to the face, metal.
With guest vocals from Chino Moreno from the Deftones on “Embers” and Creg
Puciato from The Dillineger Escape Plan on “Torhes”, you can’t really go wrong.
Puciato also helped with the lyrics on that song. The whole album is classic
Lamb of God from the first track to the very end. Song “512” is about Randy
Blythe’s time in prison in Prague, 512 being his cell number. I will be curious
to see how the song relates to his new book; Dark Days: A Memoir. I
really enjoyed the song “Engage the Fear Machine”. It is probably one of my
favorites on the album, but again pretty much the whole album is amazing. To me
that song is about how the media portrays all the negative news, trying to incite
fear and chaos into the viewers. The guns are blazing right from the start of
the album with “Still Echoes”, the albums opener. I also like how they put a
slower song, but still kept it within their style, with the song “Overlord”. It
sort of gives you a little taste of southern metal with how the guitar sound is
done and Randy’s not so growly vocals. If you purchase the extended version
(why you wouldn’t I wouldn’t know), you get two bonus tracks which I might add
are worth it. Both “Wine & Piss” and “Nightmare Seeker (The Little Red
House)” stand alone as great songs and definitely worth the extra few dollars
to get them. If this album doesn’t get high reviews from everyone, I will be
very surprised. It is classic Lamb of God and as with all their albums, gets
better and better with each new one that they release.
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