Sometimes albums have a way of starting off alright before biting you in the arse. That is definitely the case with this album, the self-titled debut album by SERMON TO THE LAMBS. The intro starts off alright, and the music kicks in. And it is devastatingly energetic and extreme, from the very first second. This kind of Brutal Death Metal with close connections to Grindcore will cut through you like the proverbial knife through butter. The band in question hails from Concepcion, Chile, and has been allowed to abuse their instruments and microphones since 2023.

But before we get into the music, I have a question; can you remember how it sounded when raindrops would fall onto the bottom of a plastic bucket? Or how you experienced it all when you started hitting plastic tubs with a spoon? Well, as far as I can tell the drummer Victor Araneda hasn't been able to afford a proper snare drum when the band started recording "Sermon To The Lambs", so he used the tricks I described. And you know what; it is so extremely annoying that it actually takes your mind of the music and you just hate-concentrate on that absolutely obnoxious sound.

But I have to say that it doesn't help that every song that SERMON TO THE LAMBS have included on this "Sermon To The Lambs" album harbours the same structure from start to finish. They all start off furiously and if possible faster than a Formula One car, only to slow down somewhere in the middle, before returning to the fastest rhythms they can muster. There might be slight differences between the songs, but I couldn't possibly tell you what they are. What that does in my case is that I have trouble telling one track from the other. To me they all sound the same.

SERMON TO THE LAMBS might be good at playing their instruments, they clearly need to work on their songwriting abilities. Whatever song you listen, the music in combination with the grunts and squeals only give us a whole lot of noise. They don't bring or add anything musically. in other words, they are void of any substance. If "Sermon To The Lambs" is just to confuse people, the band has succeeded. If it is to show off the musical abilities of SERMON TO THE LAMBS, they have failed miserably. They really need to improve before entering the studio once again.