{"id":232501,"date":"2026-03-06T13:16:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/?p=232501"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:17:18","slug":"sermon-to-the-lambs-sermon-to-the-lambs-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/sermon-to-the-lambs-sermon-to-the-lambs-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Sermon to the Lambs &#8211; Sermon to the Lambs Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-232623 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sermon-to-the-Lambs-STTL-5x5-300dpi-350x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sermon-to-the-Lambs-STTL-5x5-300dpi-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sermon-to-the-Lambs-STTL-5x5-300dpi-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sermon-to-the-Lambs-STTL-5x5-300dpi-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sermon-to-the-Lambs-STTL-5x5-300dpi-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sermon-to-the-Lambs-STTL-5x5-300dpi.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 48em) 100vw, 250px\" \/>What&#8217;s your favorite slam album and why? Do you value catchiness in your big bruutz? Clear production? Melodic presence? My favorite slam alternates with my mood between <strong>Devourment<\/strong>&#8217;s <em>Obscene Majesty<\/em> and <strong>Analepsy<\/strong>&#8217;s <em>Quiescence<\/em>; the former for the excellent execution of such a narrow sound, and the latter for the colors and beauty imbued into the otherwise bone-shattering grooves. Though given a bad rap for its easy-to-emulate smoothbrain caveman stereotypes, slam has shown much evolution in recent years as bands continue to push and redefine the limits of extremity. Hailing from Chile, new outfit <strong>Sermon to the Lambs<\/strong> have arrived with their self-titled debut, coming with the usual aggrandizing promises of maximum aural violence and assurances of a downright traumatizing listen for anyone who has ears to hear; will this sermon find the hearts of true believers or leave the congregation cold and unmoved?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, at least they know their way around a riff. Periodic snapshots show <strong>Sermon to the Lambs <\/strong>at their proselytizing best, with the occasional moment raising itself to headbangable proportions (&#8220;Crowned King of the Worms&#8221;,  &#8220;God Spat and the Man was Done&#8221;) with a high octane assault. Slam styles range from the chunkier chromatic walks of <strong>Maggot Colony<\/strong> or <strong>Condemned<\/strong>, to moodier setpieces near the end of &#8220;Clergy&#8217;s Malevolence&#8221; for tonal shift and a sense of climax to round out the release. Melodies are almost completely excised in favor of a full steam ahead barrage, which rarely tinkers with tempo changes or distinguishing features, placing <em>Sermon to the Lambs<\/em> as students of the class of professors  <strong>Disgorge<\/strong> and <strong>Gorgasm<\/strong> with regard to their commitment to bludgeoning the listener to death.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2824370955\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/comatosemusic.bandcamp.com\/album\/sermon-to-the-lambs\">Sermon to the Lambs by SERMON TO THE LAMBS<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unfortunately, those highlights are few and far between and only serve to exacerbate how unbelievably <em>bland<\/em> this album is. Vocalist Richard Aguayo falls prey to the maddening trend of not knowing how to let his vocals support the music, choosing instead to slather almost the entire album with belches and brees which possess little sense of diction or phrasing. His gutturals are excellent, but the frustrating insistence on double-tracking them with his more shrill screams is not, and the mix has him pushed so far forward that he frequently drowns out whatever interesting musicality <em>might<\/em> be hiding underneath. Songs stop and go on a dime, and frequently I&#8217;d be surprised to see I was several tracks deeper into a listen than I thought I was, thanks to song conclusions and kick-offs blurring together in composition. Any random 30 seconds chosen to play would certainly unleash an attack filled with energy and enthusiasm, but <em>Sermon to the Lambs<\/em> is utterly devoid of truly head-spinning moments or anything to warrant repeat listens.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-232624 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sermon-to-the-Lambs-band-photo-2026-500x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sermon-to-the-Lambs-band-photo-2026-500x231.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sermon-to-the-Lambs-band-photo-2026-350x162.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sermon-to-the-Lambs-band-photo-2026-768x355.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sermon-to-the-Lambs-band-photo-2026-1536x711.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sermon-to-the-Lambs-band-photo-2026-2048x948.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 48em) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What is the biggest culprit for this? The mix is no help, with all the knobs on the board shoved all the way up to 11, leaving instrument and vocals fighting for attention while the bass&#8217;s body is buried in the backyard and forgotten. For the most part, the riffs are no help, a hodgepodge of expected staccato presentations and a beige haze of blasts. The drumming is no help; while skillfully delivered, there are certainly no fills to catch the listener&#8217;s attention. Other than the aforementioned moments of semi-memorability in the bookending tracks, there&#8217;s definitely no run of riffs to raise horns and toss beer at innocent passerby. <em>Sermon to the Lambs<\/em> lacks any dose of menace or cinema, though the band definitely tries, taking a page from the book of <strong>Brodequin<\/strong> and injecting some Gregorian chant into an intro (&#8220;Maximum Apostasy&#8221;) before that too devolves into paint-drying and bird watching. The closing track makes a valiant effort to get some real atmosphere with its tempo shifts, and <strong>Sermon to the Lambs<\/strong> wisely err on the side of brevity with the releases 30 minute runtime. But ultimately, this is an opaque, textureless, flavorless album, so focused on the brutalizing that it never manages to get out of first gear and approach anything with replayability.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve wrestled for a while on why this is. Objectively, there&#8217;s nothing executed that&#8217;s &#8220;poor&#8221; in the literal sense. Instruments are played well, throats are wildly abused, and snares blow out the treble in your speakers with savage glee. One might argue that this was the very vision, and if such monotonous brutality is your jam, you&#8217;ll probably find lots more to like here. But slam is capable of its own artistic merit and is more than malleable to compositional adventures, and <em>Sermon to the Lambs<\/em> is lacking heavily in both artistic vision (beyond &#8220;kill&#8221;) and compositional adventures. If straightforward jackhammer thrashings are your parish, you&#8217;ll find plenty of good word here, but this <del>lion<\/del> lamb will be attending services elsewhere.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Rating<\/strong>: 2.0\/5.0<br \/>\n<strong>DR<\/strong>: 4<sup class='footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/sermon-to-the-lambs-sermon-to-the-lambs-review\/#fn-232501-1' id='fnref-232501-1' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(232501)'>1<\/a><\/sup> | <strong>Format Reviewed<\/strong>: 320 kbps mp3<br \/>\n<strong>Label<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comatosemusic.com\/store\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comatose Music<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Website<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/comatosemusic.bandcamp.com\/album\/sermon-to-the-lambs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Album Bandcamp<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Releases Worldwide<\/strong>: March 6th, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s your favorite slam album and why? Do you value catchiness in your big bruutz? Clear production? Melodic presence? My favorite slam alternates with my mood between <b>Devourment<\/b>&#8217;s <i>Obscene Majesty<\/i> and <b>Analepsy<\/b>&#8217;s <i>Quiescence<\/i>; the former for the excellent execution of such a narrow sound, and the latter for the colors and beauty imbued into the otherwise bone-shattering grooves. Though given a bad rap for its easy-to-emulate smoothbrain caveman stereotypes, slam has shown much evolution in recent years as bands continue to push and redefine the limits of extremity. Hailing from Chile, new outfit <b>Sermon to the Lambs<\/b> have arrived with their self-titled debut, coming with the usual aggrandizing promises of maximum aural violence and assurances of a downright traumatizing listen for anyone who has ears to hear.&#8221; Lambs to the killing floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":232623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[79,26714,12976,16337,1453,8379,7969,16829,4424,8730,12017,27331,19437,19,8162,27330],"class_list":["post-232501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-79","tag-26714","tag-analepsy","tag-brodequin","tag-brutal-death-metal","tag-chilean-metal","tag-comatose-music","tag-condemned","tag-devourment","tag-disgorge","tag-gorgasm","tag-maggot-colony","tag-mar26","tag-review","tag-reviews","tag-sermon-to-the-lambs","has-thumb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sermon to the Lambs - Sermon to the Lambs Review | Angry Metal Guy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A review of Sermon to the Lambs self titled debut, available worldwide March 6th 2026 via Comatose Records.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/sermon-to-the-lambs-sermon-to-the-lambs-review\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sermon to the Lambs - Sermon to the Lambs Review | Angry Metal Guy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A review of Sermon to the Lambs self titled debut, available worldwide March 6th 2026 via Comatose Records.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/sermon-to-the-lambs-sermon-to-the-lambs-review\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Angry Metal Guy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-03-06T12:16:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-03-06T12:17:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sermon-to-the-Lambs-STTL-5x5-300dpi.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alekhines Gun\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alekhines Gun\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/sermon-to-the-lambs-sermon-to-the-lambs-review\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/sermon-to-the-lambs-sermon-to-the-lambs-review\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alekhines Gun\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/#\/schema\/person\/3a3887ec2c6aecc7e374beedbbed40f8\"},\"headline\":\"Sermon to the Lambs &#8211; 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