Lamb of God " The Heavy Metal Injection "
Lamb of God is an
American heavy Metal Band From Virginia.Theyre just release eight Studio Albums
(including "Burn The Priest" ),one Live Album, One Compilation and
Three DVDs.Randy Blythe (Vocal ) is consisting in this Band even though he
just got out of prison.
The
band's takes sales almost two million in the United States. In 2010 and 2011
the band received Grammy Nomination for songs in their 2009 album Wrath. Lamb of God has appeared on Slayer
Concert at The Unholy Alliance Tour in 2006 and toured with the Pzzfest
twice.They have their Live Concert with the million of Fand worldwide, like at
Download Festival with their maniac fans and Sonisphere in UK.
Before Lamb of God
Lamb of God have been
blazing mercilessly away at the forefront of heavy music for the last 15 years,
upholding metal’s intrinsic values of honesty, intensity and creativity while
also daring to push boundaries and think outside the heavy box. Exploding into
view with 2000’s seminal debut New
American Gospel, the
Virginian quintet inadvertently kick-started the so-called New Wave Of American
Metal at the dawn of the 21st century; and have notched up a succession of huge
commercial hit albums and remorselessly toured the globe ever since. The
combination of vocalist Randy Blythe’s excoriating growls and roars, guitarists
Willie Adler and Mark Morton’s precision attack and the bowel-shattering rumble
of rhythm section John Campbell (bass) and Chris Adler (drums) has both refined
and redefined the notion of aggressive metal in the modern era.
but, before that.the firts name of their formation is "Burn The Priest" With Mark Morton and Matt
Conner as Guitarist, John Campbell as Bass Player and the Drummer is Chris
Adler.
They’re knew each other
from the college Virginia Commonwealth University. And feel the same
passions so they deciding to make the Band.The Great Metal Band ever in history.
Morton and Conner left the band soon after its inception to
pursue master's degrees.
From the raw savagery of 2003’s As The Palaces Burn and its immaculate follow-up Ashes Of The Wake in 2004 to the widescreen pomp and
melodic intricacy of Sacramentin
2006, the band’s rise to glory was steady and unstoppable. By the time they
released their #2 US Billboard-charting album Wrath in 2009, Lamb of God were simply one
of the biggest metal bands on the planet, with a vast army of fans worldwide
and a formidable reputation for delivering the goods on stage, with countless
headlining tours and festival appearances contributing to their status as
standard bearers for heavy music. 2012’s Resolution album marked a startling evolution in
the band’s sound, displaying laudable levels of experimental fervor and sonic
breadth. It built upon the successes of previous years by smashing into the US
Billboard charts at #3 and looked to usher in a new era of acclaim and
achievement.
Of
course, what happened next is well documented. Vocalist Randy Blythe’s trials
and tribulations in the Czech Republic – wherein he stood accused of causing
intentional bodily harm to a fan at an LOG show in Prague in 2010 and faced a
lengthy prison sentence – momentarily threatened both his freedom and the
future of his band. Eventually acquitted on all charges, Randy has spoken at
length on his experiences and while it would be inaccurate to state that the
new Lamb of God album – VII:
Sturm Und Drang –
represents the story of those dark days, it undoubtedly had a huge impact on
the lyrical direction that he took this time round.
“There’s
no way around it, my trip to the gated community in Europe was the starting
point for writing this record,” he states. “I wrote the opening track, Still
Echoes, almost in its entirety. You’re familiar with the Misfits song London
Dungeon, which is about when they got arrested? Well, I’m a huge Misfits fan so
I thought I might as well write my own London Dungeon, except for it’s not in
London. I also wrote parts of the song 512 while I was there, so I had those
two things. But writing in there was an act of preservation for my morale, I
suppose. Being creative, whenever I’m going through something rough and I don’t
have anything else to turn to, I pick up the pen…”
With such
a dramatic entry point for the writing process for Lamb of God’s seventh album,
this was never going to be an upbeat affair. Inspired by those initial lyrical
ideas, Randy Blythe and guitarist Mark Morton have conjured a collection of
dark and menacing but ultimately inspirational lyrics for VII: Sturm Und Drang, an
album that deals with extreme real life circumstances and mankind’s ability to
weather the most brutal storms in the ongoing quest for peace and happiness.
“It’s a
record about how people handle extreme situations,” says Randy. “The literal
translation is ‘Storm And Stress’ – it sums up everything on the record, it
really does, perfectly. Obviously it started with me being in prison, but this
isn’t my prison album. The song 512 is asking ‘How am I handling this?’ Anyone
who’s been locked up will probably understand what I’m trying to say. It’s
about the brutal psychic shift you undergo when you become incarcerated,
because it’s not a normal situation at all. People in prison think and act 100%
differently from people on the outside. It’s a different world.”
Reflecting
this overall theme, VII: Sturm Und Drang features
several songs that arose from Randy’s fascination with digging deeper into
the horrors of history, the strength of humanity and our never-ending battle
against oppressive, dishonest regimes. Closing track Torches was inspired by
the story of Jan Palach, a Czech man that set himself alight in Wenceslas
Square in protest against the Soviet Union’s invasion of Czechoslovakia. The
furious Engage The Fear Machine deals with the manipulation of mass media to
control the masses, using scare tactics and outright lies to spread fear and
paranoia, as with the recent worldwide Ebola scare and its exploitation by
unscrupulous broadcasters. Meanwhile, the hair-raising brutality of Anthropoid
was inspired by the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the ‘Butcher Of Prague’
and architect of the Nazis’ final solution, in 1942. His assassins were “ratted
out” and found themselves holed up in a local church crypt, with 800 Nazi
stormtroopers out for their blood.
“They
held the Nazis off for eight hours,” Randy explains. “These guys fought ‘em
until they ran out of bullets and then they killed themselves so they wouldn’t
be taken prisoner. So you can go into that crypt in Prague, and I did, and you
can see where these guys were trying to dig through the wall into the sewer.
It’s extremely heavy. These were superior men. That’s about as high level as
you can get, in terms of character and doing the right thing. Situations don’t
get much more extreme than that.”
To match
the jarring intensity of the lyrics, the music on Lamb of God’s seventh album
had to be both powerful and emotionally shrewd. In keeping with their previous
works, VII: Sturm und Drang
contains all the cherished LOG trademarks, but as with its predecessor
Resolution, this is not a record that sits comfortably within a cozy formula.
Instead, from the flailing muscularity of Erase This to the startling melodic
vocals and surging crescendos of Overlord, from the skull-rattling grooves of
Still Echoes to Embers’ heart-rending mixture of fragility and grandeur, this
is both a consolidation of the values that Lamb of God have long upheld /and/ a
bold leap into fresh territory that once again heralds the expansion of this
band’s unique vision. With guest appearances from Deftones’ frontman Chino
Moreno (on Embers) and Greg Puciato from The Dillinger Escape Plan (on
monumental album closer Torches), VII:
Sturm und Drang is a
cohesive, focused and emotionally devastating piece of work.
“The last
few years were definitely a unique period for us and one that doesn’t compare
to anything we’ve gone through before,” states Mark Morton. “But for me, the
writing process hasn’t changed. I just play the guitar and when something cool
comes up and it’s relevant and appropriate to Lamb of God, I’ll document it and
get it catalogued for future use. The difference this time was that me and
Willie (Adler, LOG guitarist) collaborated a lot more than ever before. It grew
from bits and pieces that me and Willie both brought in and we melded them into
songs, with great results.”
“We set
out to try and make a 10-song record,” Randy notes. “The concept of the album
is getting lost nowadays, and one reason I think is that every fucking record
is 18 songs long now. Albums used to really just be moments in time and they
defined where the band was at that moment. Now I think there’s a lot of
overwriting… this concept of more is better, and I think that’s nonsense. So we
decided on ten songs, that’s it. Josh really encouraged Mark and Willie, those
two write the tunes, instead of bringing in complete compositions on their own
– and we’ve done that a lot in the past on records – and he got them to work
together more. That happened quite a bit with this album and I think it made it
much more cohesive and a stronger record as a result.”
Having
lived through times that would have stopped most bands in their tracks, Lamb of
God are back in 2015 with a renewed sense of purpose and a fresh perspective.
They will embark on a full European Festival tour in the Summer of 2015, and
then the Summer’s Last Stand Tour across North America, as direct support
for Slipknot, and also featuring Bullet For My Valentine, and Motionless In White.
Lamb of God are ready to roll.
“It’ll be
cool to get out and tour the world and play this new stuff for the fans”, says
Randy. “As always, I’ll try to see things I haven’t seen before, get out
and do some photography and writing as well.”
“I’m
really lucky to still be doing this with these guys and tour around the world,”
Mark concludes. “That’s an honor and it’s one I don’t take for granted. It’s
great to be part of something that’s as cool as Lamb Of God.”
Although Lamb of God's genre is a major point of
disagreement among fans and critics alike, they are mainly considered groove
metal. John Campbell, on the Walk With Me in Hell DVD, says that Lamb of God is
"a punk band that plays heavy metal", while Chris Adler refers to
Sacrament as a speed metal album. Burn the Priest and early Lamb of God has
been called.
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