Lamb of God - New American Gospel (2000)
I think this is Lamb of God's second best album (the first place goes to Ashes of The Wake),so it's worth the download.
"Describing themselves at pure American metal and signed to Metal Blade Records, Lamb of God (formally Burn the Priest), came up with this ten song debut release.Is it any good? In one word yes. In two words, hell yes.
The band's sound is difficult to explain. It might be the production value on this one but, a lot of the album is drum oriented and they are out in the forefront. This isn't really a problem if you like double bass, really high symbol hits, and different snare and tom sounds. However, the drums were recorded tough, and I mean tough. A bass hit
almost sounds like a regular snare hit, and if you're listening to this album too loud, those symbol hits are pure hell as they are driven straight into your ear with no filtration. The guitars are very good and really produce a hard hitting heavy sound even though they are only tuned in drop-D. For the people who don't know notes, listen to this album, and listen to Tool - Ænima and you're listening to the same tuning. Few can bring a hard hitting path of destruction in drop-D anymore. Bass is also heard in the album which is a rarity these days. The singer (screamer) is a little different. He is loud and higher pitched for having the typical death metal style. However, either due to the production value or my patience level, I can't understand a damn thing he is saying. However, if that doesn't matter to you (since it doesn't bother me), the music that they are playing is very good. It surprises me that this is their first major release. They sound like they have been playing for decades with the tightness of their sound. There's a lot of tempo and musical changes here to help keep the album interesting. Even though it's about 40 minutes long."(review from kickedintheface.com)
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