Album Rating: 5.0
Machine (the producer of this and Sacrament) did a great job on both records. I get that the band wanted to go in a new direction with Wrath (which I think is a great example of instilling a raw sound without cratering the entire album in noise), and maybe they had some artistical differences with Machine by that point, but I do wonder how'd they sound today if they hadn't stuck with Wilbur. My issue with present day LoG is that they sound so stuck in their ways. Wilbur doesn't seem to push the band quite the same way Machine did. I mean, Machine had Randy do laps around the recording studio so that he could give a more convincing scream for Blacken the Cursed Sun. It doesn't mean much other than to highlight that Machine wasn't the type of producer to just let the band run roughshod over their ideas.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Yeah modern LoG is just a whole other theory from me, mostly that Mark's rock influences have taken over and Willie is just along for the ride now. Most of the songs sound the same and there's no Chris on the drums as another alpha to drive it into more metal territory anymore (not a knock on Art, love that guy to death).
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Album Rating: 3.0
First full listen: I believe they filtered down and zero'd in on an effective formula here and on the whole stuck with it ever since. All straight ahead moshpit fodder, I'd have liked more ambition. I see it as a necessary downgrade from As The Palaces Burn to achieve broader appeal. They show signs of life and a little more neuronal firing on the closing 2 tracks. OTT production smothers this, they messed with Adlers drums in production. One to dip in and out of when you need a boost of adrenaline. When they hit a sweet spot, it's still great, but too samey to give more than a 3 right now.
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Album Rating: 5.0
I fully contend that I don't know what I'm talking about but this is literally my favorite metal production post-2000.
Adler's drumming alone negates most of what you say imo, but the guitar playing and lyricism is miles ahead of Palaces. Again IMO. Admittedly I fuckin adore this album and have since release.
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Album Rating: 4.0
palaces smokes this but this still bangs hard
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Album Rating: 4.0
Adler was so damn good
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Album Rating: 3.0
An ok album
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Album Rating: 3.0
I was arguing with silly metalheads recently about it so I just wanna bump in and remind everyone that this is in fact metalcore. K thx 😎
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Album Rating: 3.5
i'd probably give palace a slight edge if i were forced to pick but both kinda rule
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Album Rating: 4.3
"I was arguing with silly metalheads recently about it so I just wanna bump in and remind everyone that this is in fact metalcore. K thx 😎"
The divide between groove metal and metalcore is that groove metal is racist core
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Album Rating: 5.0
I mean, you ain't wrong zaruyache. Laid to Rest, Omerta, and Break You all have breakdowns. I'm sure others do to varying degrees but those 3 are the first ones that immediately come to mind.
Damn, I never thought to consider this metalcore. Man what a trip.
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Album Rating: 3.5
i always thought lamb of god to be groove metal with some thrash/metalcore
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Album Rating: 5.0
When I really got into them around 2007-2008 they were always labeled as groove/thrash. I don't remember them ever being tagged as metalcore. During that time, my personal experience with metalcore was like Killswitch, Blood Runs Black, Born of Osiris, and Darkest Hour. I wouldn't have lumped LoG into that same category because I thought their sound was very distinct from that era of metalcore.
These days, though, metalcore encapsulates a hell of a lot more bands so I can see how the tag would fit LoG with how expansive the genre has become.
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Album Rating: 4.3
Most of my experience with LoG was trying to take them into metalhead circles and getting called a poser so my "they're metalcore" bias was admittedly bullied into me, still I do think a lot of the bias comes from them squarely landing on the "not metal" side of the great metal/not metal debate of the 00s
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It's Pantera without solos. Would you call Pantera metalcore?
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Album Rating: 4.3
Yes
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Album Rating: 4.3
Domination is basically the first core song
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lol
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Album Rating: 3.5
@someguest well technically they have a couple solos on this ablum and some on wrath but yeah
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Yeah they have some solos. Nothing like the other band tho
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