Album Rating: 4.0

Forgot this album/band were a thing lol

Album Rating: 4.5

album rips

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah.

Album Rating: 4.0

New single is the hottest dookie. Riffs gone bye bye.

I don't love the single, but Randy's vocals and the production remind me of their first few albums which I do like

Album Rating: 4.5

I'm doubtful they will ever return to the sound and style of their first three or four albums but the new one will probably be an improvement over their more recent output.

Album Rating: 4.0

new song really rips tbh, if the album sounds like that i'm in

Album Rating: 4.0

I don't think I've listened to anything past Sacrament

Album Rating: 4.0

same really but i think you'd dig the new one!

Album Rating: 4.5

Wrath rules yall should peep that. The last truly good LOG album.

Album Rating: 4.0

oh yeah wrath i have heard, definitely goes hard. set to fail and reclamation are some of my fav log tracks in general.

Album Rating: 5.0

The album after that has a couple rippers too, but that's really where they stunted.



Desolation is one of the sickest tracks in their discog. That riff is a fuckin' monster. Ghost Walking is pretty good too, I'd way rather hear that live than Redneck ever again - it does what Redneck did much better.



Really, though, we can all point to the great track or two from each album following Wrath. And that's a problem, imo. I've been bored to death by these dudes for so long now.

Album Rating: 5.0

Just got done going back through this and it is such a fucking 5. Palaces, Ashes, Sacrament, and Wrath is a crazy good string of albums.



They got boring and comfortable after Wrath. VII has a number of pretty great songs (more so than Resolution, in my opinion), but the returns get weaker and weaker after each release. The new single, I'm convinced, is just a hook to think they're pivoting before we get duped into more of the same.

Yeah agreed, VII actually has some great tracks, especially compared to Resolution, which just feels so bland.

Album Rating: 4.0

This one already slaps too.



Also I'm realizing that NWOAHM is a completely meaningless descriptor. I always thought it applied to bands like Lamb of God and Shadows Fall which threw together thrash, groove, some barking vocals with lots of solos and riffs, etc. But no, apparently it also includes basically every American metal band from like 2000 to 2010 lol

Album Rating: 4.5

Rules yeah.

NWOAHM is definitely a broad term, but in my experience it was largely used for metalcore in the 2000s, particularly all the bands coming out of Massachusetts. But LoG, Trivium, BTBAM, and others were achieving bigger success at the time too. So even some thrashier stuff, Warped Tour bands, prog adjacent stuff, etc. often get included. The first things that come to my mind though with that term are KsE and their closest peers.

Album Rating: 4.0

“Also I'm realizing that NWOAHM is a completely meaningless descriptor. I always thought it applied to bands like Lamb of God and Shadows Fall which threw together thrash, groove, some barking vocals with lots of solos and riffs, etc. But no, apparently it also includes basically every American metal band from like 2000 to 2010 lol”



yeah pretty much. I remember bands like mastodon and a7x being lumped in there

I just looked at which artists are listed on Wikipedia article for it and it's funny how many they have. It also lists The Blood Brothers, which....the fuck

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah it's wild, it's like there's no way that The Black Dahlia Murder and Godsmack should ever appear on the same webpage lol