"This is a mallet to the back of the skull to anyone who believed their best days were behind them." One of metal's greatest modern bands have made their best album in over a decade: Lamb Of God's Into Oblivion slays

Lamb Of God staring menacingly at the camera.

For over a decade, Lamb Of God had one of the most perfect discographies in metal this side of the millennium. Not only were they continually changing, experimenting and evolving, they were always getting those deviations right, without having to dilute the formula that made them so good.

Inevitably, as it does with the majority of bands, that type of career trajectory couldn’t continue. 2015’s Sturm Und Drang added more melody, but it didn’t quite kick like their best material, and both 2020’s self-titled and 2022’s Omens were decent but didn’t really add anything fresh or original to the LOG sound.