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Lamb of God have announced their first new album in four years, Into Oblivion, out March 13th.
The band has also offered up the title track, which serves as the LP’s opening song. Laced with chugging riffs, mosh-inducing breakdowns, and eerie horror-soundtrack overtones, the three-minute-forty-second track is a sufficiently brutal way to kick things off — and introduce the core themes behind the album and its title, Into Oblivion.
“Because that’s where we’re heading,” stated vocalist Randy Blythe of the album’s title. “In general, the album is about the ongoing and rapid breakdown of the social contract, particularly here in America. Things are acceptable now that would’ve horrified people just 20 years ago.”
Prior to officially announcing the album, Lamb of God dropped a pair of singles in recent months — “Sepsis” and “Parasocial Christ” — both of which made the tracklist. Notably, each number has its own sound, “Sepsis” falling into sludge metal, “Parasocial Christ” being more straight-ahead LoG thrash/groove metal, and “Into Oblivion” tapping into more tech-y metalcore.
“For me, the album is about having the space to breathe creatively and not feeling like we have to keep up with any trend or expectation,” guitarist Mark Morton said. “It feels nice to be untethered from any agenda beyond rallying around the notion of, ‘Let’s just make music that we think is cool,’ which is really where it all started.”
Into Oblivion was produced and mixed by longtime studio collaborator Josh Wilbur across multiple locations tied closely to the band’s identity. Drums were tracked in Lamb of God’s home city of Richmond, Virginia, with guitars and bass recorded at Morton’s home studio. Blythe recorded his vocals at the legendary Total Access studio in Redondo Beach, California, the locale of seminal punk recordings by Black Flag, Hüsker Dü, and Descendents.
Lamb of God will be supporting the LP’s release with a previously announced North American tour that sports a stacked support package of Kublai Khan TX, Fit for an Autopsy, and Sanguisugabogg. The trek launches March 17th in National Harbor, Maryland, and you can get tickets here.
Pre-orders for Into Oblivion are under way via the band’s webstore. Check out the video for the title track and see the album artwork and tracklist below.
Into Oblivion Artwork:
Into Oblivion Tracklist:
01. Into Oblivion
02. Parasocial Christ
03. Sepsis
04. The Killing Floor
05. El Vacío
06. St. Catherine’s Wheel
07. Blunt Force Blues
08. Bully
09. A Thousand Years
10. Devise/Destroy
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