Mastodon & Lamb of God - Floods of Titan

[son of the Morrigan]

Came across a Kerry King interview recently where he says he recons Lamb Of God deserve to take Slayers place in the big 4.

No Kerry. No. Bold boy.

I'm actually fond of a bit of LOG, Ashes Of The Wake and Wrath are great albums in my opinion, but big 4 material? No.

[Giggles]

I'd be familiar with Lamb of God's first 4 albums, some good tracks on there.

I know a few heads on here can't stand the vocalist, but this instrumental of theirs from 2004 might be worth checking out. With guest solos from Alex Skolnick and Chris Poland:

[Mooncat]

Have to agree with the folks saying LoG are a bit of a nothing band. They take the heaviness of Pantera and the techhy riffs of Megadeth and then remove all of the hooks, melody, and feel and are left with just some lumpen inferior version of both. They have a few good songs that hit the target they're aiming for, but 90% of it is just one dimensional mud. There's a whole genre of similar bands who do it much worse though, so they do look kinda good by comparison...

[Sworntothecans]

They're a gateway band like Slipknot

The tour doc they did a few years ago was worth watching for the scrap between Randy & Mark Morton.