Ashes Of The Wake (Parental Advisory) [PA] - Lamb Of God

...Rating: 10/10

Ashes Of The Wake (5.45) This is an instrumental piece. The firsts riff is yet another great one, with a really creey feel to it. The instrumental has some amazing guitar work, and the solo is a very good one, a return to some of the solo's the band played on the album 'As The Palaces Burn'. Although there is some chanting/speaking on the track it is really an instrumental. The drummer gets to show off here and does some ...
...to the song.
Rating: 9/10

Remorse Is For The Dead (5.39) This is the best track on the album by a mile! The acoustic intro combines with occuring double-bass beats sound's absolutley amazing! The singing here is amazing, with some catchy lyrics, wich you will attempt to growl along to! 'If these walls could talk, they would tell a horror story' a classic lyric. The drumming here again is dangerously good! But the guitars really ... more

This is Lamb Of God's most recent album, realeased in 2004. The band play a unique brand of death metal, with an amazing line up of talent within the band:
Randy Blythe: Lead Vocals
Willie Adler: Guitar
Mark Morton: Guitar
John Campbell: Bass
Chris Adler: Drums

Laid To Rest (3.50) This song has a terrifying intro! The guitars are straight into their routine and full off an amazing riff. The intro verse has a very 'Children Of Bodom' feel about it and worked well with the first guitar riff. The constant semi-pinch harmoinics sounded much better than the full pinch harmonic would have, and I'm sure the bane were aware of that. The vocals here are very aggressive and work well with the band's whole aggressive attitude. The drumming on this track are amazing also, in constant unison with teh guitar's, showing the band are very tight and play well together. The interlude to this song is very heavy and one of the best they've written.
Rating: 10/10

Hourglass (4.00) This song has a very typicall Lamb Of God riff, with a lot of twisted notes and triplets in it. The guitar's tone is perfect, and I love the way both guitarist's switch from both playing, to one playing and the other coming in later, wich gives a nice effect. The lyrics and vocals here are excellent again and fit the song perfectly. The interlude here is amazing, with the first guitar playing the lower rhythm and the second coming in later and playing an amazing harmony, wich sound's absolutley stunning. The drumming is perfect as ever, and there are some nice fills and rhythm part's played.
Rating: 9/10

Now You've Got Something To Die For (3.39) What an intro! I love this brutal guitar intro and the vocalist screaming 'Now you've got something to die for!' it's moments like this that set them apart from their rivals. The drumming in this track are amazing, you can constantly here the amazing fill's n riff's he plays, and he had amazing foot controll on this song too, the double-bass constantly beating. The interlude here is another one worked well between both guitars with one playing a heavy rhythm and the other going over that with a different riff. Complicated but effective.
Rating: 9/10

The Faded Line (4.37) Once you hear this intro you will get hooked on this song, an absolute classic piece. The guitarists seem to never be able to run out of amazing bone crushing riff's! The chorus part is amazing with the guitars playing a very fast pulloff combined with open E bashing! The vocals here are amazing again, you expect his growling just to cut off, because it sounds so hard to keep it up! The lyrics are again very well written 'Walk the faded line, cursed crawl of time' one of the best lines. The drumming is brilliant again the constant complicated riff's and fills he plays are amazing.
Rating: 9/10

Blood Of The Scribe (4.23) This has another powerfull riff to open up, it has that twisted melody line involved with the heavy rhythm, wich is this band's style. The best riff is at the (1.36) mark, the high pitched, hammer-on pull-off combination is the riff you notice the most. The voclas are perfect again, the deep growling, sounding like a tormented lion! The lyrics here are very well written 'Rest comes easy to the guiltless' one of the best lines here. The drumming is less noticeable in this song, but is very rhythmic and keeping a very good beat.
Rating: 10/10

Ashes Of The Wake (5.45) This is an instrumental piece. The firsts riff is yet another great one, with a really creey feel to it. The instrumental has some amazing guitar work, and the solo is a very good one, a return to some of the solo's the band played on the album 'As The Palaces Burn'. Although there is some chanting/speaking on the track it is really an instrumental. The drummer gets to show off here and does some ver good riff's and fills wich give a nice twist to the song.
Rating: 9/10

Remorse Is For The Dead (5.39) This is the best track on the album by a mile! The acoustic intro combines with occuring double-bass beats sound's absolutley amazing! The singing here is amazing, with some catchy lyrics, wich you will attempt to growl along to! 'If these walls could talk, they would tell a horror story' a classic lyric. The drumming here again is dangerously good! But the guitars really get to show off on this one with some of their best work on the album, the last riff (4.08) being the best .
Rating: 10/10

Other song's on this album are:

Omerta
One Gun
Break You
What I've Become
 

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