Lamb of God

Resolution (Epic)

Randy Blythe’s 13-second scream teeing off these Virginia romper-stompers’ fifth body slam isn’t Roger Daltrey on “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” but consider it a premonition of the singer’s last month in a Prague prison on manslaughter charges. “I am the one who’s left to take the fall,” he roars on the equally ear-scything “The Undertow,” but better that than “You dug your own grave” on new-metal tinged “The Number Six.” The Richmond quintet’s usual uniformity of sound, production, and performance strikes many like a concrete dam, and Resolution takes 10-15 minutes too long to resolve, but there’s no arguing with a rabid dog called “Cheated.” ***

This article appears in August 10 • 2012.

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San Francisco native Raoul Hernandez crossed the border into Texas on July 2, 1992, and began writing about music for the Chronicle that fall, debuting with an album review of Keith Richards’ Main Offender. By virtue of local show previews – first “Recommendeds,” now calendar picks – his writing’s appeared in almost every issue since 1993.