Like hardcore on steroids.’Choke Sermon’ is a very busy sounding track with a brief, but tasty solo. ‘Everything To Nothing’ is urgent and almost feels very punk for a crusty metal track. ‘Dead Seeds’ is another nihilist anthem the band has been known for. The tempo shifts are dizzying and almost the level of good technical death metal. A bit of a throwback to the bands’ earlier style mixing picked melodic guitars with chopping riffs. Mid-album track ‘Broken Hands’ is a gem of a deep cut. The lovely opening instrumentation of picked guitars is the Mark Morton/Willie Adler trademark, before giving way to the punishing licks and beats. The song has a fast thrash tempo and searing guitar work, ‘Grace’ has similar themes, but a bit more musical. ‘Fake Messiah’ continues the long tradition of songs the band has attacking religion. In a time when a band like Pantera was gone and most of the chief architects of mainstream heavy metal were mostly navel-gazing, it was great to have this band around to remind us about some righteous rage that didn’t devolve into bro-rock or some of the tropes metalcore was suffering from. They were the two singles off of this album and still make their way into set lists to this day. The next two tracks ‘Set To Fail’ and ‘Contractor’ were heavy, emotional blasts full of riffs and bile. ‘In Your Words’ is a worthy first full track and is a brutal slice of classic groove metal. Opening with the dramatic instrumental ‘The Passing’, it definitely set an ominous tone for what was to come. Of course, their musicianship was never higher and lyrically the album would touch on timeless themes of American politics, religion, fear-mongering, desperation, anger at systematic injustice, addiction, and self-analysis. Three years after the slickly produced Sacrament, the band was craving the rawer, more direct approach of their earlier albums and went with producer Josh Wilbur at the helm. Wrath ( Epic/Roadrunner) arrived with fanfare and expectations higher than ever. The five albums (and one live album/DVD) the band put down in ten years really each marked their own distinct high point for the band. The upper tier of genre greats were struggling to find themselves, so along with other leaders of the era such as Mastodon, Gojira, Amon Amarth, and Machine Head, LoG spearheaded a new generation. Few bands embodied the changing of the guard like Richmond Virginia’s Lamb of God who ushered in the decade with New American Gospel ( Prosthetic) after famously changing their name from Burn The Priest and really reset the bar of possibility for modern, popular metal bands. Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).As the chaotic decade of the aughts was closing down, metal’s upper echelon of bands was never in better hands. Get the embed code Gaither Vocal Band - Reunited Album Lyrics1.Because He Lives2.He Touched Me3.I Am Loved4.I Believe In A Hill Called Mount Calvary5.I'm Free6.It Is Finished7.Loving God, Loving Each Other8.Sinner Saved By Grace9.The Church Triumphant10.The King Is Coming11.There's Something About That Name (Live)12.There's Something About That Name - Live Version13.These Are They14.Worthy The LambGaither Vocal Band Lyrics provided by
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