... And right at the forefront: Lamb Of God from Richmond, the here present their second album "As The Palaces Burn" to occur at the spearhead of this difficult sport trendy modern Metals simultaneously. In genre comrades like Killswitch Engage or Shadows are falling mainly melodies with a strong penchant for Sweden- stainless à la In Flames and Co. repeatedly important part of a song, ruled in Lamb of God nothing but the steam hammer. Co- Produced by strappin young loadable head Devin Townsend sounds this second album "Lambs" awesome clinically what reminiscent especially among at Meshuggah, spherical leads some songs, dissolves the very aggressive mood clever. Overall, a significant increase to the debut, although here too have crept a few hangers, but the Lamb of God can weigh well with tracks like "ruin", "Blood Junkie" or the title track, for such blows to the face have modern American bands in pull of something long-lasting Nu Metal hysteria, rarely has to offer. The four-leaf around vocalist Randy Blythe, the rattles through the whole album and screams, as if there's no tomorrow, trying a whole division heavy Slayer riffs and merciless grooves to avoid misunderstandings: This is definitely Metal ... Maybe even a long overdue continuation of that. Anyway, in conjunction with the hopeful outputs some "new wave" bands such as the above-mentioned Kill Wich Engage, Shadows Fall, but God Forbid or Blood Has Been Shed, leaves "As The Palaces Burn" a still vague, because simply not enough variety Admitting but very pleasing idea of anti-commercialized yet successful playground of new metal bands germinate in me, and is therefore for purely "ideological" point of a worth buying! Perhaps we will soon witness a real novelty of our ailing favorite called "Metal" and I'm sure that Lamb of God is then one of the nurses. Who plays the chief physician, God knows ...
