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New American Gospel


Album: ''New American Gospel'' (2000)
1. Black Label
2. A Warning
3. In The Absence of The Sacred
4. Letter To The Unborn
5. The Black Dahlia
6. Terror And Hubris In The House of Frank Pollard
7. The Subtle Arts of Murder And Persuasion
8. Pariah
9. Confessional
10. O.D.H.G.A.B.F.E.




Black Label


Album: ''Black Label'' (2001 Single)
1. Black Label




As The Palaces Burn


Album: ''As The Palaces Burn'' (2003)
1. Ruin
2. As The Palaces Burn
3. Purified
4. 11th Hour
5. For Your Malice
6. Boot Scraper
7. A Devil In God's Country
8. In Defense of Our Good Name
9. Blood Junkie
10. Vigil



Album: ''As The Palaces Burn Sampler'' (2003 EP)
1. 11th Hour
2. Ruin




11th Hour


Album: ''11th Hour'' (2003 Single)
1. 11th Hour




Ruin


Album: ''Ruin'' (2003 Single)
1. Ruin




Ashes of the Wake


Album: ''Ashes of the Wake'' (2004)
1. Laid to Rest
2. Hourglass
3. Now You've Got Something to Die for
4. The Faded Line
5. Omerta
6. Blood of the Scribe
7. One Gun
8. Break You
9. What I've Become
10. Ashes of the Wake
11. Remorse Is for the Dead




Terror and Hubris


Album: ''Terror and Hubris'' (2004 DVD)
1. Intro
2. "How they met" interview
3. In the Absence of the Sacred
4. The Blair Shit Project
5. Subtle Arts of Murder and Persuasion (New England Metal Fest 2003)
6. "The Writing Process" interview
7. Ruff Buffet
8. Hellfest Interview
9. Pariah (Hellfest 2003)
10. Behind the Scenes of "Ruin" video
11. Ruin (Hellfest and New England Metal Fest 2003)
12. Final Interview
13. Credits (contains wall of death clips and wrestling footage)




Pure American Metal


Album: ''Pure American Metal'' (2004 EP)
1. Bloodletting
2. The Subtle Arts of Murder And Persuasion
3. 11th Hour
4. Black Label (live)
5. Laid To Rest (pre-production demo)




Laid To Rest


Album: ''Laid To Rest'' (2004 Single)
1. Laid To Rest (Clean Version)
2. Laid To Rest (Explicit Version)




Killadelphia


Album: ''Killadelphia'' (2005 DVD)
1. Intro
2. Laid To Rest
3. On The Road
4. Hourglass
5. Goddamn!
6. As the Palaces Burn
7. Late To Denver
8. Now You've Got Something To Die For
9. I'm Not Willie!
10. 11th Hour
11. Terror and Hubris
12. The Brandy and Randy Show
13. Ruin
14. Wine Soundcheck
15. Omerta
16. Death From Above
17. Pariah
18. We've Gone Completely Batty!
19. The Faded Line
20. English Coffee
21. Bloodletting
22. Adventures In The UK
23. The Subtle Arts Of Murder And Persuasion
24. Glasgow
25. Vigil
26. Afterthoughts
27. What I've Become
28. Wrapup
29. Black Label
30. Outro/Credits




Killadelphia Sampler


Album: ''Killadelphia Sampler'' (2005 EP)
1. Laid To Rest
2. Hourglass
3. Now You've Got Somthing To Die For
4. The Faded Line




Now You


Album: ''Now You've Got Something To Die For'' (2005 Single)
1. Now You've Got Somthing To Die For




Sacrament


Album: ''Sacrament'' (2006)
1. Walk With Me In Hell
2. Again We Rise
3. Redneck
4. Pathetic
5. Foot To The Throat
6. Descending
7. Blacken The Cursed Sun
8. Forgotten (Lost Angels)
9. Requiem
10. More Time To Kill
11. Beating On Death's Door




Redneck


Album: ''Redneck'' (2006 Single)
1. Redneck (album version)
2. Redneck (clean version)
3. Omerta (Live)
4. Black Label (Live)




Walk With Me In Hell


Album: ''Walk With Me In Hell'' (2006 Single)
1. Walk With Me In Hell



lamb of god

LAMB OF GOD BIOGRAPHY

The roots of Lamb of God were planted in 1990 when Mark Morton, Chris Adler and John Campbell were floor mates at Virginia Commonwealth University. The trio began playing at Adler's house in Richmond weathering chilly conditions. "There was no heat at the house," recalls Campbell. "We would freeze our asses off, get really drunk and hang around the kerosene heaters trying to write metal songs. Kerosene fumes and Black Label beer were definitely what fueled our early days."

After graduation, Morton moved to Chicago to pursue a master's degree, but the band continued. A new guitarist, Abe Spear, replaced Morton as the band retired its instrumental sound and added Blythe on vocals.

The quartet, known then as BURN THE PRIEST, became a fixture in the tightly-knit Richmond music scene. To compete with the high-level of musicianship displayed by their contemporaries, the band adopted a rigid practice schedule. "To this day, we practice five days a week out of necessity," says Campbell. "The bands in Richmond can flat outplay you and if you don't practice, they will blow you off the stage. Bands like Breadwinner and Sliang Laos - two local math-metal bands - could play insanely complicated music note perfect. They inspired us to raise the bar musically and taught us the work ethic we needed to be a success."

The band was playing around Virginia when Morton moved back from Chicago and re-joined the group. Soon after, Burn the Priest released a self-titled full length album on Legion Records. Abe left soon after, which opened a spot for guitarist, and brother to Chris - Willie Adler.

A year after the second Adler joined, Burn the Priest changed its name to Lamb of God and signed a record deal with Prosthetic Records. The band's independent-debut, New American Gospel, was released in 2000. "This album was all about creating a rhythmic and pummeling musical landscape with riff after riff," explains Morton. Drummer Adler notes: This is a classic record. We had all the elements come together to make one of the heaviest, yet contagious records of our career. It was difficult to contain us - we didn't even understand at the time what we had created."

Two years of extensive touring to support the album raised Lamb of God's profile before the band released the critically acclaimed, As The Palaces Burn (2003). ATPB won record of the year honors in such notable magazines as Revolver and Metal Hammer while garnering mainstream press in Rolling Stone and Entertainment Weekly.

The band hit the road again and began headlining tours across the globe. In the fall of 2003 Lamb of God was a co-headliner on the first ever MTV's Headbanger's Ball Tour which elevated Lamb of God beyond the underground. The band then released Terror and Hubris, a DVD featuring early live performances, videos for "Ruin" and "Black Label" and behind-the-scenes footage highlighting the work ethic, humility and sense of humor of one of the most respected and influential bands around today. The DVD proved to be a commercial success as it entered the Billboard Music DVD Charts at #32.

Gradually, Lamb of God's persistence paid off. Their 2003 disc, As The Palaces Burn earned them a new level of respect and admiration, but it was 2004's virulent major label debut (Epic Records) Ashes of the Wake that turned the band into true contenders for the metal throne. By mid 2006, the record had sold over 275,000 copies. Revolver magazine voted it the album of the year, a Guitar World readers poll deemed it best metal album and awarded the band "most valuable players," "best shredders" and "best riffs." The video for "Now You've Got Something to Die For" earned "best video" from both Headbanger's Ball and Revolver. And a DVD chronicling the tour and life on the road with the band, Killadelphia, has gone gold. Lamb of God supported Ashes with more relentless touring, now playing mostly arenas and festivals, starting with a headlining run on Second Stage at Ozzfest 2004, and ending by headlining the North American Sounds of The Undergroud Festival in 2005.

The political angst that fueled the lyrics on As The Palaces Burn continues unabated on Ashes of the Wake. However, Blythe admits that his plans to write songs about personal responsibility quickly changed. "Mark and I write most of the lyrics together, and at the start of this album we agreed that we wanted to concentrate on internal instead of external politics," he explains. "But as we got into it, considering the condition of the world today, we felt obligated as responsible artists to give accurate social commentary, and that meant writing a few indictments against the powers that be."

Mixing a call to arms with a sneering disdain balances Ashes of the Wake. "In the end, I think the album is stronger because we show the relation between internal and external politics instead of just focusing on one or the other," Blythe says. "These songs are a reality check for everyone because they rail against a wrong-headed government and against the apathetic people that ignore the government and allow it to exist."

After Ashes of the Wake, they had been praised as one of the leaders of the new American metal movement, and while they were flattered to be considered part of something so influential, this time they wanted to stand alone. "I believe it's important for us to create a legacy for this band, and I don't want that legacy to be in association with anyone else," Adler says. "In our minds, we're a cut above and we feel like we put out a whole lot more."

Towards the end of 2005, the band stopped all touring and came home to Richmond, VA, to begin writing the next chapter. An intense 8 month writing process followed. "We pretty much killed ourselves working on it five to six days a week for six to eight hours a day," says drummer Chris Adler. "It was important to push ourselves into uncomfortable territory as players. A lot of times one of us would say, 'I'm not sure if I can play that.' The typical response was, 'Well, you've got a year to figure it out.' We pushed ourselves to step it up and threw out a lot of decent material because we were insisting on only the best." One reason Lamb of God pushed so hard is because they wanted to create something that couldn't be classified, categorized or marginalized.

August 22, 2006 brought Sacrament, a stunning example of how diverse, articulate and pummeling metal can be. It's a record that emphasizes just how far the band members have come as players, writers and people and stands as a true testament of triumph over adversity. With Sacrament, Lamb of God has stoked the flames by stripping the flesh to the bone and examining the carnage. The songs are bleak and dark, yet key ingredients of a ride that's as breathless, exhilarating and terrifying as an overdose.

Guitarist and co-lyricist Mark Morton notes the band chose the name Sacrament based on a specific lyrical reference as well as a more general symbolic perspective. "We like it because it employs the idea of the traditional religious Sacrament, which is something you do as ritual to get to a different level of your faith," he says. "Also, I thought it was symbolic in terms of us putting out another record and getting to the next stage of our musical development." "This is definitely a personal record and it's the darkest thing we've ever done," adds Blythe. "It stems from a lot of depression and a fucked up worldview. In the last couple years I've been going through a lot of weird, bad shit."

The biggest difference between Sacrament and Ashes of the Wake is the lyrical content. In the past, Lamb of God has lyrically been motivated by the hypocrisy, greed and turmoil of politics and politicians. This time the band turned within to reveal an even greater source of despair and frustration.

Songs like 'Pathetic' and 'Descending' for instance are about the whirlpool of addiction and alcoholism, 'Walk With Me In Hell' addresses the destruction of codependency and 'Blacken the Cursed Sun' confronts suicidal depression.

"The lyrics were so intense for me, when I was recording, it was like breathing pain instead of breathing air," Blythe says. "So, when it was done, I couldn't listen to the record for another two months. It just took so much out of me to get all this stuff out, I didn't want to touch it right away."

In addition to being unbelievably heavy, Sacrament is a sincere expression of the turmoil that has tumbled through the last few years of the band's existence. In an era of stagnant, contrived metal, Lamb of God is a harrowing rush of honesty, a declaration that no matter what anyone else is playing, Lamb of God will always follow their own hearts.

"This band was started because no one out there was making the music that we wanted to hear," singer Randy Blythe says. "So, we decided to make that music, and from that point it has just been a continuation of that philosophy. We had never changed anything we do to appeal to anyone, appease anyone or seek any sort of approval from anyone other than ourselves."

LAMB OF GOD GENRES
Groove Metal/Metalcore

LAMB OF GOD LYRICAL THEMES
Pain, Misery, Politics, Heresy

LAMB OF GOD ORIGIN
United States of America (Richmond, Virginia), formed in 1999

LAMB OF GOD CURRENT RECORD LABEL
Epic Records

LAMB OF GOD STATUS
Active

LAMB OF GOD CURRENT LINE-UP
D. Randall 'Randy' Blythe - Vocals (Furious George, Halo of Locusts)
Mark ''Duane'' Morton - Guitar (Fatty Love, Corntooth)
Willie Adler - Guitar
John Campbell - Bass (Fatty Love)
Chris Adler - Drums (Jettison Charlie, Grouser, El Tigre, EvilDeathInc., Blotted Science)

 


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