Lamb of God
Lamb of God is an American groove metal band, originally formed under the n… Read Full Bio ↴Lamb of God is an American groove metal band, originally formed under the name Burn the Priest.
The roots of Lamb of God were planted in the year 1990, when Mark Morton, Chris Adler and John Campbell were friends at Virginia Commonwealth University. The trio began playing at Adler's house in Richmond weathering chilly conditions. "There was no heat in the house," recalls Campbell. "We would hang around the kerosene heaters, get really drunk and write metal songs. 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 Randy 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 Mark 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, in 2000, 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 the year 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 Underground 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 relatively 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."
In 2009, Lamb of God released their sixth studio album 'Wrath' which debuted at No. 2 on the billboard top 200. The track 'Set to Fail' also received a Grammy nomination amongst other Metal heavyweights such as Megadeth, Slayer, Judas Priest, and Ministry. They spent the remainder of 2009 touring in support of the new album and expect to continue touring through most of 2010.
In an interview with Spin Magazine, Chris Adler stated that the band currently has plans to begin work on their seventh album (title unknown) at the start of 2011. The album has been stated to be released either the end of 2011 or the beginning of 2012 and the band will not be doing any public performances until 2012 according to Morton's personal Twitter account.
On June 28, 2012, Randy Blythe was arrested in Czech Republic for alleged manslaughter. He was released on August 3 on a $400,000 bail until the criminal proceedings are finished.
Despite statements from band members that Lamb of God planned to enter the studio in 2014 to begin recording their eighth studio album, hoping to complete it by the end of the same year, Chris Adler said in an interview with The Virginian-Pilot that besides the large amount legal fees the band encountered from Randy Blythe's trial, the band's inactivity during the trial had eventually depleted the band's funds and thus were unable to fulfill those plans.
On January 26, 2014, Randy Blythe posted a picture and a statement on his Instagram saying he would be taking a long break from Lamb of God. The band, after the then-current album cycle would be on hiatus, except for some summer festival appearances. By September, however, Blythe revealed that he was planning to release a new Lamb of God record, which uses lyrics he had written while he was incarcerated along with his book, Dark Days: A Memoir in early 2015.
The band began teasing a new album, with the placeholder title Lamb of God VII via Instagram and Twitter in late April 2015. A website, lambofgodvii.com, initially comprising an empty black screen, went online in early May. The "VII" (the roman numeral for the number seven) refers to the album being the band's seventh, and does not take into account the first of their albums, released with a slightly different line-up as Burn the Priest. On May 15, 2015, it was announced that the title of the new album VII: Sturm und Drang, and would be released in July via Epic and Nuclear Blast Entertainment. The first song, "Still Echoes" was made available for streaming on LambofGodVII.com, and available for digital download on May 18. In June of the same year, the band released a video for the song "512".
On November 14, 2016, Lamb of God released a new EP titled "The Duke", which featured two new songs from the VII: Sturm und Drang recordings and three live tracks. The title track is dedicated to a fan and friend of vocalist Randy Blythe, Wayne Ford, who died after a 5-year battle with leukaemia. In addition to the new release, several members of the band auctioned off their instruments, signed CDs, lyric books and gold records to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
On April 4, 2017, Blythe said it was time for the band to "really go on hiatus" after their summer North American tour; this was in reference to the first hiatus being on the back of his release from prison and acquittal. On August 10, guitarist Mark Morton confirmed that the band would be going on hiatus but stated that they would still be making music but did not hint at whether this was either for an upcoming release or indeed for Lamb of God at all.
On January 22, 2018, Lamb of God was announced as one of the bands supporting the Slayer Farewell Tour.
On March 22, 2018, Lamb of God announced that on May 18, 2018, they would release a cover album, Legion: XX under their original name Burn the Priest. It is the band's first album as Burn the Priest since their 1999 album.
On October 23, 2018, Lamb of God drummer Chris Adler was interviewed on the 486th Metal Injection Livecast and in the interview with Metal Injection he revealed that the band is aiming for a December 2019 release date for Lamb of God's tenth studio album. He also revealed in the interview that he had a conversation with fellow heavy metal drummer Lars Ulrich of the band Metallica about what it is like to work with ex-Metallica guitarist and current Megadeth lead vocalist and guitarist Dave Mustaine prior to working with him on Megadeth's 15th album, Dystopia, which was released in 2016.
In June 2019, on the topic of Chris Adler returning to the band on a touring basis, Randy Blythe stated during an interview with WSOU that he had no comment and that "it's hard to see what's going to happen with Chris Adler."On July 19, 2019, the band released a statement informing that they had indeed parted ways with Chris Adler, with Winds of Plague and former Prong drummer Art Cruz being named the new drummer of Lamb of God. They additionally stated that they had begun pre-production on their forthcoming 10th album.On October 23, 2019, Chris Adler released his own statement about his departure from Lamb of God revealing that he "did not make the decision to leave my life’s work" and he "is unwilling to paint by numbers".
On February 5, 2020, the band released "Checkmate" as the debut single from their self-titled album, Lamb of God, which marks the first song to feature new drummer Art Cruz. The album was initially planned to be released on May 8, but was postponed to June 19, 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Lamb of God will spend most of 2021 touring in support of the album, including a co-headlining US tour with Megadeth, and a European trek with Kreator and Power Trip.
In a September 2020 interview with Australia's Subculture Entertainment, Lamb of God guitarist Mark Morton was asked how he was spending his coronavirus downtime. He responded, "Writing and recording and creating new music is my favorite part out of all the things we get to do. There's a lot of elements, a lot of components about being in a band like Lamb of God. Performing and touring is one of them. Writing and recording is another one of them. The writing and recording part is far and away my favorite part of what we get to do. And so I have been doing some writing. I've been writing some stuff for Lamb of God, some stuff for other people, some stuff for my own solo project, so there's a lot of new music jumping out of me right now."
On February 4, 2021, the band released a song called "Ghost Shaped People" off the upcoming deluxe version of their 2020 self-titled album. The reissue of the album is set for release on March 26, 2021.
The roots of Lamb of God were planted in the year 1990, when Mark Morton, Chris Adler and John Campbell were friends at Virginia Commonwealth University. The trio began playing at Adler's house in Richmond weathering chilly conditions. "There was no heat in the house," recalls Campbell. "We would hang around the kerosene heaters, get really drunk and write metal songs. 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 Randy 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 Mark 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, in 2000, 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 the year 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 Underground 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 relatively 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."
In 2009, Lamb of God released their sixth studio album 'Wrath' which debuted at No. 2 on the billboard top 200. The track 'Set to Fail' also received a Grammy nomination amongst other Metal heavyweights such as Megadeth, Slayer, Judas Priest, and Ministry. They spent the remainder of 2009 touring in support of the new album and expect to continue touring through most of 2010.
In an interview with Spin Magazine, Chris Adler stated that the band currently has plans to begin work on their seventh album (title unknown) at the start of 2011. The album has been stated to be released either the end of 2011 or the beginning of 2012 and the band will not be doing any public performances until 2012 according to Morton's personal Twitter account.
On June 28, 2012, Randy Blythe was arrested in Czech Republic for alleged manslaughter. He was released on August 3 on a $400,000 bail until the criminal proceedings are finished.
Despite statements from band members that Lamb of God planned to enter the studio in 2014 to begin recording their eighth studio album, hoping to complete it by the end of the same year, Chris Adler said in an interview with The Virginian-Pilot that besides the large amount legal fees the band encountered from Randy Blythe's trial, the band's inactivity during the trial had eventually depleted the band's funds and thus were unable to fulfill those plans.
On January 26, 2014, Randy Blythe posted a picture and a statement on his Instagram saying he would be taking a long break from Lamb of God. The band, after the then-current album cycle would be on hiatus, except for some summer festival appearances. By September, however, Blythe revealed that he was planning to release a new Lamb of God record, which uses lyrics he had written while he was incarcerated along with his book, Dark Days: A Memoir in early 2015.
The band began teasing a new album, with the placeholder title Lamb of God VII via Instagram and Twitter in late April 2015. A website, lambofgodvii.com, initially comprising an empty black screen, went online in early May. The "VII" (the roman numeral for the number seven) refers to the album being the band's seventh, and does not take into account the first of their albums, released with a slightly different line-up as Burn the Priest. On May 15, 2015, it was announced that the title of the new album VII: Sturm und Drang, and would be released in July via Epic and Nuclear Blast Entertainment. The first song, "Still Echoes" was made available for streaming on LambofGodVII.com, and available for digital download on May 18. In June of the same year, the band released a video for the song "512".
On November 14, 2016, Lamb of God released a new EP titled "The Duke", which featured two new songs from the VII: Sturm und Drang recordings and three live tracks. The title track is dedicated to a fan and friend of vocalist Randy Blythe, Wayne Ford, who died after a 5-year battle with leukaemia. In addition to the new release, several members of the band auctioned off their instruments, signed CDs, lyric books and gold records to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
On April 4, 2017, Blythe said it was time for the band to "really go on hiatus" after their summer North American tour; this was in reference to the first hiatus being on the back of his release from prison and acquittal. On August 10, guitarist Mark Morton confirmed that the band would be going on hiatus but stated that they would still be making music but did not hint at whether this was either for an upcoming release or indeed for Lamb of God at all.
On January 22, 2018, Lamb of God was announced as one of the bands supporting the Slayer Farewell Tour.
On March 22, 2018, Lamb of God announced that on May 18, 2018, they would release a cover album, Legion: XX under their original name Burn the Priest. It is the band's first album as Burn the Priest since their 1999 album.
On October 23, 2018, Lamb of God drummer Chris Adler was interviewed on the 486th Metal Injection Livecast and in the interview with Metal Injection he revealed that the band is aiming for a December 2019 release date for Lamb of God's tenth studio album. He also revealed in the interview that he had a conversation with fellow heavy metal drummer Lars Ulrich of the band Metallica about what it is like to work with ex-Metallica guitarist and current Megadeth lead vocalist and guitarist Dave Mustaine prior to working with him on Megadeth's 15th album, Dystopia, which was released in 2016.
In June 2019, on the topic of Chris Adler returning to the band on a touring basis, Randy Blythe stated during an interview with WSOU that he had no comment and that "it's hard to see what's going to happen with Chris Adler."On July 19, 2019, the band released a statement informing that they had indeed parted ways with Chris Adler, with Winds of Plague and former Prong drummer Art Cruz being named the new drummer of Lamb of God. They additionally stated that they had begun pre-production on their forthcoming 10th album.On October 23, 2019, Chris Adler released his own statement about his departure from Lamb of God revealing that he "did not make the decision to leave my life’s work" and he "is unwilling to paint by numbers".
On February 5, 2020, the band released "Checkmate" as the debut single from their self-titled album, Lamb of God, which marks the first song to feature new drummer Art Cruz. The album was initially planned to be released on May 8, but was postponed to June 19, 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Lamb of God will spend most of 2021 touring in support of the album, including a co-headlining US tour with Megadeth, and a European trek with Kreator and Power Trip.
In a September 2020 interview with Australia's Subculture Entertainment, Lamb of God guitarist Mark Morton was asked how he was spending his coronavirus downtime. He responded, "Writing and recording and creating new music is my favorite part out of all the things we get to do. There's a lot of elements, a lot of components about being in a band like Lamb of God. Performing and touring is one of them. Writing and recording is another one of them. The writing and recording part is far and away my favorite part of what we get to do. And so I have been doing some writing. I've been writing some stuff for Lamb of God, some stuff for other people, some stuff for my own solo project, so there's a lot of new music jumping out of me right now."
On February 4, 2021, the band released a song called "Ghost Shaped People" off the upcoming deluxe version of their 2020 self-titled album. The reissue of the album is set for release on March 26, 2021.
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Lamb of God Lyrics
"Hourglass" Privileged, a chosen few Blessed with our time in hell Wit…
"The subtle arts of murder and persuasion" The dark crow man sits and stares into the oblivion…
- Absence Violence a natural reaction in a society whose advances are…
- As the Palaces Burn The fiends have gagged a generation of pacified fools Bound …
01 In Your Words A sacred cash cow with sickly tits Dripping temptation for h…
02.As the Palaces Burn The fiends have gagged a generation of pacified fools Bound …
03. AGAIN WE RISE Store-bought attitude and spit A sugar-coated piece of shit …
04 Now You Got Something To Die For Now you've got something to die for Now you've got somethin…
05-The Black Dahlia I am the ones & the zerosthat control commerce &…
05.-For Your Malice Welcome home to my reality. So you taste yourself every time…
05.For Your Malice Welcome home to my reality. So you taste yourself every tim…
06. Again We Rise Store-bought attitude and spit A sugar-coated piece of shit …
06. Terror and Hubris All the fucked up things trap And punish me I…
06.-Blood of the Scribe All of this comes crashing down Cornerstone's gone Sleeple…
07. Blacken The Cursed Sun Seize a darkened day, There's only hell to pay, And no one…
07. Subtle Arts of Murder and Persuasion The dark crow man sits and stares into the oblivion…
09 What I've Become Blank stares from broken men So withered from the poisons t…
09. Blood Junkie A shallow little jackal of a man posing as a…
11 The hour of wreckoning draws near Judgment day is here and…
11. Beating On Death's Door She's a slack one, born of greed Speaking endless words, lon…
11th Hour The hour of wreckoning draws near Judgment day is here and…
11th_hour The hour of wreckoning draws near Judgment day is here and…
15. NOW YOUVE GOT SOMETHING TO DIE FOR Now you've got something to die for Now you've got somethin…
16-Black Label The human condition is inherit claustrophobia. Compression …
3Now You've Got Something to Die For Now you've got something to die for. Infidel, Imperial Lust …
512 Six bars laid across the sky Four empty walls to fill…
7. Blacken The Cursed Sun Seize a darkened day, There's only hell to pay, And no one…
A Devil in God's Country Down south soldier Third world soldier My vengeance will be …
A Warning I'm a monster so don't walk my way. Don't trust…
Again We Rise Store-bought attitude and spit A sugar-coated piece of shit …
An Extra Nail for Your Coffin At a loss for something different to say, I've said everythi…
Another Nail For Your Coffin At a loss for something different to say, I've said everyth…
Anthropoid Arrogance mounted on a poison steed Hangman swings from a ro…
as the palace burns The fiends have gagged a generation of pacified fools Bound …
Ashes of the Wake "We killed a lot of innocent civilians To us every civilian…
Beating on Death She's a slack one, born of greed Speaking endless words, lon…
Black Label The human confrontation, I've build a phobia It takes my ess…
Blacken The Curse Sun Seize a darkened day, There's only hell to pay, And no one…
Blacken The Cursed Sun Seize a darkened day, There's only hell to pay, And no one…
Blood Junkie A shallow little jackal of a man posing as a…
Blood Of The Scribe All of this comes crashing down Cornerstone's gone Sleepless…
Bloodletting Archaic methods transfer Through well in the face of mass de…
Bloodshot Eyes I know a place under the sun Where my memories of…
Boot Scraper Watch the broken common man Drown his sorrows at unhappy hou…
Break You Endless mornings cut by the dawn razor Whipping the nightmar…
Broken Hands I can feel your fear and weakness I see my own…
Buckeye Turn on all the light and punch them out. All…
Cheated So inevitable another lie another reason to justify Tearing …
Checkmate Watch the gears grind off their teeth, the screeching halt…
Choke Sermon Sermon sung me slow to sleep Faster if I had a…
Chronic Auditory Hallucination Picking crumbs from the beards of others, futile organisms…
Condemn The Hive Soon come a burning, Soon come a reaving, Spare the rod, spo…
Confessional Intrinsic rot. Traces of future. Your past will rise haunt…
Contractor Stomping lines in international sand Feeding blood drinking …
Dead Seeds And you may tremble before hell's gates You may watch as…
Delusion Pandemic Allocate your future to the delegates Relegate your muses to…
Departure Hymn We are in this world not of it. Spreading like…
Descending The river I'm bound to be found in A rope chosen…
Desolation Spoken sideways and indirect Without a single word left unch…
Digital Sands A thousand Romes are set aflame A thousand Neros sing their…
Dimera With just a flick of the opal banded finger I…
Duane Flickering lies glazed cornea creating cerebral corpses A se…
Embers Gather the bones and lay them in the sun in…
Engage The Fear Machine Here we go again, the world is coming to an…
Erase This Justify, a means to an ending only just beginning to…
Everything to Nothing Then you wake Another body bag, pathetic Picture frame obitu…
Extra Nail for Your Coffin At a loss for something different to say, I've said everythi…
Faded Line Witness shame's parade The pain of blame repaid It's fucki…
Fake Messiah Everything you've ever begged me to be Could never have mean…
Flux The sore on the edge of your mouth It mirrors…
Foot to the Throat Virginia death threat, Virginia creeper vine The hands that …
Foot To Throat Virginia death threat, Virginia creeper vine The hands that…
Footprints A human leech Foul you crawl into my field of vision;…
For Your Malice Welcome home to my reality. So you taste yourself every time…
For Yuor Malice Welcome home to my reality. So you taste yourself every tim…
Forgotten This is a mean and cold town, I hate this fucking…
Gears You suffer from a manufactured sickness and envy by design P…
Ghost Shaped People A message in the bottle smashed right across your head All…
Ghost Walking Do you remember When word was bond A fleeting promise on the…
Goatfish Ripped out all the options, busted broke still drunk on…
Grace Broken, bones and the will Capacity to disappear in misery s…
Grâce Broken, broken in will Your past is leaving, disappearing mi…
Guilty Never fear the truth, or a lie correctly used When everythin…
Half-Lid I'm a monster so don't walk my way Don't trust my…
Hit The Wall What's yours is unsure What's mine will stay mine Stay sur…
Hourglass Privileged, a chosen few Blessed with our time in hell Witne…
In Absence Of The Sacred Violence a natural reaction in a society whose advances are…
In Defence of Our Good Name Down south soldier Third world soldier My vengeance will b…
In Defense of Our Good Name Returning to solace So sweet like honeysuckle on the tongue …
In Defense Of Our Own Good Nam Down south soldier Third world soldier My vengeance will b…
In the Absence of Sacred Violence a natural reaction in a society whose advances are…
In Your Words A sacred cash cow with sickly tits Dripping temptation for h…
In Your Worlds A sacred cash cow with sickly tits Dripping temptation for …
Insurrection When the walls fall around you is when you begin…
Intro The Most Gracious Teacher of the Al-Qur′an Creator of the hu…
Invictus Unconquered Life is born of agony's strain Manifested in su…
King Me I saw the world through the lens of a pinhole…
Laid to Rest If there was a single day I could live A single…
Lamb Of God This is the lamb This is the lamb This is the…
Lame Whine, whine, whine How can you afford to throw me those…
Letter to the Unborn Lyrics have never been released, as they are highly personal…
Lies at autumn As the leaves fall yellowing like aged paper Thoughts turn a…
Lies of Autumn As the leaves fall yellowing like aged paper Thoughts turn …
Memento Mori By the darkest river, beneath the leafless trees I think I'm…
More Time to Kill I just got the news today you were dying, Hot Damn!…
New Colossal Hate The mother of exiles stands there weeping As her children te…
New Willenium I am the ones and the zeros That control commerce and…
Nightmare Seeker As I walk through the sodden killing fields A million souls…
Nippon (No official lyrics available} (The YouTube video contain…
Now You Now you've got something to die for Now you've got somethin…
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Now Youve Got Something To Die For Now you've got something to die for Now you've got something…
O.D.H.G.A.B.F.E Hate. Falling three feet to the ground. Face down on the…
Omerta Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is…
On the Hook A dead silver spoon with needles in his skin Rode a…
One Gun The sins of deliverance The eyes of the patriot fixed throu…
Overlord You never proved me anything but right You're all surprises,…
Pariah The sore on the edge of your mouth it mirror…
Pathetic Somewhere between an excuse and a lie You found something th…
Poison Dream Monsters have run inside of me From my birth on sour…
Preaching to the Converted The Public wants what the public gets. Lazarus himself wou…
Purified Can the pestilence within you be bled out May I have…
Reality Bath Anxious steps everyday through the halls of learning She's w…
Reating on Death's Door She's a slack one, born of greed Speaking endless words, lon…
Reclamation Humanity's a failed experiment Walking the path to extinctio…
Red Neck So goddamn easy to write this You make it spill on…
Remorse Is for the Dead The dirty lord of the manor, surveys his filthy domain Too…
Requiem Down, chemical sacrament Blasphemous prayer Deliver me from …
Resurrection Lay waste, torn asunder Weak and lost in the past Obfuscat…
Resurrection #9 Lay waste torn asunder weak and lost in the past.…
Resurrection Man I was born in a cemetery And learned to walk on…
Routes A black snake beneath the ground Extinction dripping from hi…
Ruin The knowledge that seeking the favor of another Means the mu…
Ruiner How light could be our darkest hour? None will be left…
Salivation Smothered under your affection Solitude an acquisition Symbi…
Sermon Sermon sung me slow to sleep Faster if I had a…
Set to Fail You want to hate me for the way you hate…
Shoulder Of Your God Death lies eternal. A heathen rapture consumes the light. …
Something to Die For Now you've got something to die for Now you've got something…
Still Echoes A thousand heads cut clean across their necks Right down the…
Straight For The Sun Gone Gone Shoot me straight for the sun I wanna be the only…
Subtle Arts Of Murder And Persuasion The dark crow man sits and stares into the oblivion…
Suffering Bastard Shorn of apocryphal pride The locks falls predicting strife …
SufferingBastard Shorn of apocryphal pride, the locks falls predicting strife…
Terminally Unique There's nothing new under the gun Cognitive dissonance Wal…
Teror & Hubris in the House of Frank Pollard All the fucked up things trap And punish me I…
Terror & Hubris All the fucked up things trap And punish me I…
Terror and Hubris in the House of Frank Pollard All the fucked up things trap And punish me I…
The Black Dahlia I am the ones & the zerosthat control commerce &…
The Death of Us Hopeless, helpless, dying breath Hopeless, helpless, dying b…
The Duke No one lives forever but you can't escape from life Every…
The Faded Line Witness shame's parade The pain of blame repaid It's fucking…
The Number Six Sloth is the enemy of greatness Reflection a scalpel to my…
The Subtle Art Of Murder And Persuasion The dark crow man sits and stares into the oblivion…
The Undertow You always needed people like me Directions for your fingers…
To Rest If there was a single day I could live A single…
To The End I've held the hand of God and I've sang the…
Torches The soul of the nation slowly withers (in the howl…
Vigil Our father thy will be done I have denied this life…
Visitation The path I set out on took a turn When the…
Walk With Me In Hell Pray for blood Pray for the cleansing Pray for the flood Pra…
We Die Alone A moment in time worthy only of solitude. A stranger…
What I Blank stares from broken men So withered from the poisons th…
Wine & Piss Greet the day smiling with a hateful heart Run to finish…
You've Got Something To For Now you've got something to die for Now you've got something…