Originally published by L.S. Media. January 28th 2012. 
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The new offering by Lamb of God won’t be to everybody’s taste. It won’t, for example, spend weeks at the top of the British charts. It won’t by any stretch of the imagination be nominated for any awards by fans of those who find the mass appeal of manufactured music and distorted view of the 21st Century version of celebrity exciting.
Resolution is not for them. Who is it for? It’s for those that care that music should be tangible, loud and with lyrics that may be undecipherable to the lovers of boy bands and groups who wouldn’t know how to conjure up images that describe daily life or the battle that each person must face to survive.
Following on from the 2009 release, Wrath, the band take this seventh studio album and deliver it straight down the throats of those critics that may have begun to doubt that Lamb of God are a force no longer of nature but of low expectation. Like Wrath, the album is produced by Josh Wilbur and he once more seems to keep the band on their toes and producing a sound that is very reminiscent in parts to Birmingham Thrash Metal band Esoteric.
The great thing with this type of music over say power ballads is the complex imagery and themes that be played out, it appeals to the part of you that craves lyrics that you have to read, you have to invest time in to understand. This is no easy set of lyrics that you will know instantly and be humming within a day and no doubt forgetting forever when the next big manufactured thing comes along. This is an album with attitude, with songs such as the excellent King Me and Insurrection. Songs that contain such lines as, “I saw the World through the lens of a pinhole camera. I saw nothing. I was blind.” This is poetry, pure and un-adulterated, mean, guttural and fit to grace the books of any poetical analysis.
To get the best out of this album, other than being played live with other fans of the band, is in the dark, good quality headphones over your ears and with explicit forewarning that your heart will pound and grind in pulsating waves that will have you in a cracking mood by the end of it. Why listen to it with the safety net of daylight there to catch you when you fall in love with Resolution.
Ian D. Hall