It's followed up by the title track and "Purified", two of their most underappreciated songs. "Ruin" opens the album on something of a whimper but it picks up a hell of a lot of kinetic energy, establishes their talent for hooks, and culminates with an absolutely devastating breakdown that seems to fly past at 200+bpm. As the Palaces Burn tends to fare a bit better than some of their future works, but there's no denying that half of this album is a total bore, and those five meaningless tracks are all right in a row. I don't know exactly how calculated it is, but from here on out it becomes very clear that each album will have two or three excellent standouts and then a bunch of filler. That manic consistency of the debut is wholly gone here. One of the most notable flaws of the band that truly begins here, that will (spoilers) absolutely become their achilles heel in the future, is that they very quickly morphed into a "hit single" type band. They seem to have a very specific scale that is instantly recognizable but I lack the technical term for it and it's been driving me crazy for decades. Anybody who understands what the fuck a diminished phyrgian locrian hullabaloobian scale means, please tell me what the fuck it is that Lamb of God is always playing in. In fact, almost the entire remainder of their career is foreshadowed in "11th Hour". It's very prevalent in the opening riff to "11th Hour". I struggle to explain exactly what I mean when I mention their distinctive riffing style, simply because I'm not a guitar player and I don't understand music theory beyond the most basic idea of what an accidental is, but there's a very specific key or scale that they seem to always use. What makes this special as opposed to "just another Lamb of God album" isn't necessarily that it all started here, it's that it's just unrefined enough to still sound like a young band coming into their own. This is the album where the Pantera-isms came to the forefront, where their own distinctive riffing style blossomed, where the songwriting started becoming more "normal" and less of a winding stream of consciousness, where Randy's vocals took on that deeper register they're most known for, it all truly started here. Their debut is a mess of sloppy noise that accidentally coalesced into a devastating monument to modern brutality, but it was As the Palaces Burn where everything truly came into form. I love New American Gospel, but I'd never pinpoint it as a starting point for somebody who wants to understand what the band is all about. Put a pin in those nine words, they're going to be very important later.Īnyway, As the Palaces Burn is Lamb of God's second album, and is very clearly the album where they found their niche. Keep an eye out for that part and specifically the line " This is the resolution / The end of all progress". And hey, the "chorus" section is startlingly catchy as well. It just immediately smacks you with a really lazy and mediocre riff and that's just a terrible way to start things off, even if the song gets continually better as it goes, featuring one of their extremely rare (at the time) guitar solos and one of the fastest breakdowns in the genre.
#LOG AS THE PALACES BURN LYRICS FULL#
Sure it sets the tone for the album, but it starts off with its weakest riff, neither easing the listener into the experience nor smashing them in the face at full force.
Before I say anything else, can I just say that "Ruin", despite being one of the band's better songs, is a really shitty opening track? Man it just doesn't give off the feeling of an opening track.
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