Resolution is the sixth studio album by American metal band Lamb of God. It is available on a single disc CD or a two-disc deluxe edition. Information: Like the band's debut Burn the Priest, Resolution contains elements of thrash metal along with the groove metal style the band has become known for. The album was produced and mixed by Josh Wilbur, as was the previous album. The main difference with previous records is that its writing process started before they ended touring on Wrath, and started in hotel rooms on a laptop. Besides the normal edition, a two-disc was available Read more on Last.fm.
I’ve known for years that Mark Morton was bored of heavy metal, but it’s disappointing to finally hear that forfeiture materialize. Morton “riff farms” no more; instead, songs plod over and over and over the same square-jawed RVA beer-dirges. Nowhere to be found are the edge-refining chops-testers (see: Wrath’s “Grace”) or anything structurally creative (like the NOLA sludge of New American Gospel’s “O.D.H.G.A.B.F.E.”). Everyone’s tone is great (including Randy Blythe’s vocals, good gracious!), but absolutely nothing lingered after it was over. Resolution is probably the best-sounding and the least impressive Lamb of God record to date. It’s kind of a shame, because I’d love to see a genuinely talented group of extreme musicians continue to somehow manage to sell lots of records. After feeling totally uninspired by this effort, though, it’ll take quite a bit of convincing for me to be one of those buyers in the future.
Lamb Of God don’t experiment. They don’t try “new things”. The closest they’ve ever come is playing cleaner riffs on 2009’s Wrath, which still wound up being even heavier than 2006’s Sacrament. With 2012’s Resolution, they chip away any remnant of studio polish they had left and spend 14 tracks blistering the listener, gutter balling the amplifiers (you know, those things people used to play guitars through) with the kind of groove metal Pantera purged out on The Great Southern Trendkill. This may well be their best record. I’m going on record with that.