What a promising start Lamb of God had, only to arrive here, so noisily uninspired and undeserving: Wrath is a stool sample. To be routinely inspected, and flushed.
This is about as sonically interesting as a firing squad. Drums pummel. Screams erupt. Yeah, yeah. Over-produced guitars buzz deep down in the mix, emerging occasionally to a lockstep chug inside a well-defined comfort zone bookended by pinch harmonics. It’s a thrash album, to be sure, which certainly gives it license to create as much havoc as possible, but it ought to at …