Virginia’s very own Lamb of God made sure to start this tour off right by unleashing an onslaught of their best songs on Dallas. Opening the set with “Walk With Me in Hell”, they did get off to a rocky start. You can tell they were a bit rusty but within a few songs into the set, the machine was running smoothly. A minor power outage was about the only technical glitch that came about.
They really catered to a lot of songs off their new album Sacrament but of course the standards were there as well such as “Ruin”, “11th Hour”, “Laid To Rest” and of course one of my favorite songs right now, the Grammy-nominated “Redneck”. By far, Randy Blythe is one of the best frontmen in music today. In retrospect, there wasn’t anything flashy about the band’s stage presence, as they are more in line with the “less is more” mentality. Each are exceptional musicians in their own right and they pull it off flawlessly in person.
Overall, the tour package was good but at the end, Lamb Of God proved again why they currently sit at the top of the metal landscape.
Article comments
1 - Chris Beaumont
GOjira sounds cool, I have become a big fan of Mastodon. I have seen Machine Head a few times, and while their albums are inconsistent, they always put on a killer live show.
Now for Trivium... I really liked the Ascendancy album, but the new one feels like they took a few steps back and let the Metallica influences come through way to strongly, they should be paying the Mighty Met royalties.
I would love to see Lamb of God live, they are a sick band.
2 - max
triviums are not that big metallica fan you dont know anything about em i guess they just did a master of puppets cover and sometimes heafy got a metallica t-shirt ... listen to some ascedency and tell me wheres metallica?
3 - James Noble
I saw this show in Sioux Falls, SD. Biggest suprise? Gojira is awesome. I've started listening to their music and it rocks. I also agree on Redneck, great song. As for Trivium being Metallica fans, they are, they know that. But they are not a flash in the pan. They are only on their third album, are very young, and their sound is still changing and getting better. (They are the reason I saw the show in the first place.)
4 - Jason Burney
Lamb of God didnt start with Walk With Me In Hell, they started with Hourglass. Jerry, if you are going to write a review, at least make it factual.
5 - acid
jeff is trying to sing more like james in metallica. Like I'm a due hard fan of metallica, but we already have metallica, not saying I hate trivium, they were good before he started singing that way