Lamb Of God Begins Recording New Album, Due In February 2009
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LAMB OF GOD has commenced recording on the follow up to 2006’s Grammy-nominated "Sacrament." Their new album is scheduled for release in February 2009 and will be produced by Josh Wilbur. Josh Wilbur is well-known for his Grammy Award winning work with Steve Earl. The album will be recorded in New York City; Virginia Beach, VA; Richmond, VA; and New Hampshire.
The album will see a North American release on Epic Records with Roadrunner Records handling all NON North American releases.
Band drummer Chris Adler states, “We are excited change things up this time and work with Josh. We’ve never stayed in one place too long, and the evolution continues. There is an aggressive shift in the material and our approach. The bar has been raised.”
LAMB OF GOD shipped gold with their double DVD "Walk With Me In Hell" and after five weeks are rapidly approaching platinum status.
Following production, LAMB OF GOD will head out on an extensive world tour commencing with their support slot in December with Metallica. Those previously reported tour dates are as follows:
Metallica with Lamb of God and The Sword:
December 1 - Seattle, WA Key Arena
December 2 - Vancouver, BC GM Place
December 4 - Calgary, AB Pengrowth Saddledome
December 7 - Edmonton, AB Rexall Place
December 12 - Ontario, CA Citizens Bank Arena
December 13 - Fresno, CA Save Mart Center
December 15 - San Diego, CA Cox Arena
December 17 - Los Angeles, CA The Forum
December 20 - Oakland, CA Oracle Arena
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56 Comments on "Lamb Of God Begins Recording New Album"
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3. writes:
This makes me want to puke into my own lap. I think the last thing we nee dis another retread album by the Cookie Monster Band.
Seriously, I'm surprised to hear anyone even likes these guys anymore. What, have you been listening to metal for half a year? A year, tops? Jeez, if you guys want heavy metal, why don't you listen to the good stuff? Why keep letting bands like this rewrite Slayer time and time again? It makes me want to choke someone. Good original bands struggle to get heard and boring bands like LoG get their asses sucked out everywhere they go with everything they record.
I'll burn my own house down before I buy a new LoG record. If I want to hear LoG at their best, I'll listen to ATPB, and that's IT.
Randy Blythe is a hack.
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5. writes:
ctjj.....shut up
im tired of hearin your b*tchin
is there any music u 'actually' listen to?
or do we sit around and bash bands all day?
or just the 'mainstream' bands because everyone likes them?
well, they got to this status because they actually have talent
something you'll never be able to touch
f*get
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11. writes:
Dude!
Have you chode blowers every tried playing LOG material.
I tell you its not f***in easy! Its hard and tireing as sh**, and for
Randy to do flawless vocals out there every night, and put on a badass show!
You gotta repsect for how huge these guys have made the metal scene.
Like Mark Morton said no matter what, night after night you gotta go out there swinging for the fences, f*** the other bands, when your at the top you HAVE to think your the sh**!
Besides they never expected to become the biggest band in metal, and if you've seen
the DVD you can tell they really dont give a rats a$$ for being famous.
Anyways! New album f*** YEAH!
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14. writes:
look pricks this band deserves every bit of success they deserve ive been following them since burn the priest they have worked there ass's off n ppl who cry about how they ripped this n how they ripped that shut the f*** up its better to see a band like these been at the top of the metal scene these days than sh** like metallica cause that motherf***ing ship sank along time ago, plus log are amazing musicians n randy has one of the best voices in metal today, and their live performances are amazing i hope they get more n more succesful go log!!!!!
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18. writes:
Typical to have people with no musical ability to trash those who do. Lamb of God is the alpha metal band right now and have set themselves up to be targets for the haters. Who cares whether they fit YOUR definition af metal? We won't even know you're not there at the shows because hundreds of thousands of others will happily fill your seat..............directed at ctjj......
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19. writes:
i can't wait for the new album. i've completely enjoyed every cd they've put out so far and i'm sure they'll only get better. as for live shows, lamb of god brings it each and every time...i've yet to be disappointed by one of their shows. if you don't like them then so be it, i say piss off until you do something better.
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20. writes:
Meh. Unless they get back to their old sound I won't pick this one up. Sacrament and AOTW were the biggest disappointments. The whole Pantera worship needs to go and Randy needs to get back to his old vocal styles before all the drugs.
And I'm sorry to all of you saying that they're popular because they're talented, you obviously don't know how the music industry works. While I admit the members of this band may HAVE talent, they certainly do not USE it. Groove oriented southern metal is perhaps the easiest genre of metal to play, hell I can play some of it on guitar and thats saying a lot for me. LOG is popular because they play accessible music to a crowd of former metalcore kids ready to be tr00 metal and people still caught up on Pantera's breakup that need something to fill that void. Until this band gets out of their comfort zone of playing and decides to be original again, I'll just throw them into the pile of bands not playing to their potential.
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21. writes:
I love Lamb of God - although some of their riffs just keep being recycled for each album...which is OK for me...haha..
For instance - the exact riff for Now You Have Something To Die For....was originally used on a song from As the Palaces Burn...but fukk it...I love their sound..
Hope this album surpasses the last.
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23. writes:
Hey, Mayhem. You know why LoG's music is hard for you to play on guitar? Because you didn't write it. Which is exactly why THEY make it look so easy. If you sat down with your guitar and played, oh, I don't know, F, G, A, all drop D power chords as fast as possible, called it a song, and released it, it'd be really easy for you to play, but to a hack who has no idea what they're holding, it'd be difficult. I find it funny that you own a guitar and you're playing the heavy metal equivalent to Sesame Street on it. Try playing Metallica's older solos to exact time. I mean, if you're going to paly guitar, why not try to be something other than a irresponsible hack on the thing? If you're going to waste your time trying to play other people's music instead of writing your own, at least play something challenging that you can learn new abilities from. Something that will alter how you see the instrument. Not Lamb of God. The only person in that band I even remotely appreciate is the drummer. And even then, I've heard Origin, so he's really not all that sweet after all.
When you become a big boy, you can start listening to the big boy music. LoG is the My Chemical Romance of heavy metal. Grow up.
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26. writes:
I repect your musical taste to a large deegree CTTJ, but I wouldn't go so far a s to call LoG the My Chemical Romance of Heavy Metal. If you want to accuse them of being rippoff's, at least it gets kids into something within the genre of Metal, as opposed to a band like Avenged Sevenfold, who much more deserves that title imo, which just drags people through the illusion that they listen Metal.
I really don't think they deserve the sort of extreme hatred you showed for Disturbed a couple of weeks back haha.
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28. writes:
LoG may not be the most technical band out there, but they sound good and put on one hell of a show. When does having a good sound count? I could write out 3 minutes worth of impossible riffs but it'd sound like sh!t. Where is the compromise? And, I'm with FAN, A7X takes the MCR of metal title, hands down. Sesame Street of metal is awfully harsh too.
Also, I know they've got a southern rock vibe/style, but calling them a Pantera rip off? One, is that actually an insult? And two, that's like calling In Flames an At the Gates rip off...same genre, but clearly two different bands.
29. writes:
Dear crawfordtexasjackoff "Try playing Metallica's older solos to exact time"
rofl. Old metallica solo's are a joke. They're the same thing re arranged again and again. If your going to pull out the "I'm more talented than you" pull out something that will at least hold its own weight.
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31. writes:
It's an insult if you're not a fan of Pantera or that particular strain of groove metal. And I wouldn't say the In Flames/ATG comparison is quite the same. They were two bands out around the same time (for a period) and In Flames evolved after the demise of ATG up until RTR, then immediately pulled out the Nu-Metal "riffs" and emo whining on STYE and CC respectively.
LoG on the other hand was a band that had an original sound then began slowly losing that as Southern riffs took over and culminated into Redneck and Sacrament. And I just can't take every band that plays that getting the metal hails like their gods while other bands are playing more technical or melodic or unique or just plain better music.
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36. writes:
at least you havent got australian radio. australian radio has NOTHING but generic bullsh** pop and r'n'b and hiphop flooding the airwaves and its disgusting. its so annoying that the music industry here is so devoted to following the trends set by america (no offence to any americans here) that musicians and bands who steer clear from the shallow, useless genres that are constanty in our face, get chewed up and spat out cos its not what the public wants. the majority of the population here is content on listening to music about how much money some black rapper has, or how wide some skanky teenage pop star can open her legs etc. i gave up on radio and turned to metal a number of years ago and im so glad i did. i would relish the day that lamb of god and shadows fall were played on australian radio (not that im a huge fan of shadows fall, but at least it would be something different).
i cant wait for LoG's new album, i have a gut feeling that its gonna kick ass.
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41. writes:
ugly-bob:
I feel your pain about radio now. I gave up on regular radio years ago and I now only listen to Sirius Satellite Radio. A lot of what I listen to now I first heard on Sirius' metal channel. Coming from Australia you can't get it (except over the internet) but it has changed how I listen to music and has exposed me to a lot of new (to me) metal bands.
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42. writes:
haha yeah its very very painful, just the prospect of thinking about modern radio these days brings tears to my eyes and stomach acid burning its way through my stomach...pouring my stomach contents all over the ground before it gets lapped up by some weird homeless guy called gunther
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43. writes:
As a fan of Prog type music and complexity I still am a fan of LoG. Sure they might not have the most tech. riffs put it is groove metal and groove metal is fun to listen to. I think the fact that they have become to popular is what people are scared of. Yeah so they are mainstream metal now. I don't listen to a lot of "mainstream" stuf, but again, these guys have it just like Pantera did. For me the their music is just fun and easy to head bang to.
Now Playing: Gojira - "Fire is Everything"
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47. writes:
When you become a big boy, you can start listening to the big boy music. LoG is the My Chemical Romance of heavy metal. Grow up.
this guy listens to norwegan black metal.
lamb of god can be pretty intense, and at the end of the day lets just stop fighting and, how about this approach.
if you LIKE THE MUSIC, listen to it
if you DONT LIKE THE MUSIC, dont listen to it.
screw accesibilty or mainstream or underground whatever, whatever. just listen and enjoy or throw in a pile of sh**.
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49. writes:
Well, I think that Palaces was going commercial and Sacrament took them as far as they'd like to go, but they still put on one hell of a fu cking show. If they say the next one will be aggressive and they can stay away from the "politico" b.s. on this next album then I'll give it a listen. I just have no use for a political band or I'd listen to system of a crap or some other dated trash like that. I just don't know if playing with Metallica will bring them up or pull them down. Still, I'll be checking out Met's new album too, so I guess anything is possible. As long as it's all metal fun, just keep your political opinions to yourself.
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50. writes:
cheers wiggles. yeah i knew that triple j had a metal show i just never get around to listening to it cos i have band practices on wednesday nights and by the time i get home i'm too tired to do anything. but really, one radio station playing one metal program a week isnt enough if you ask me...which nobody did. i agree with soad2737, if you enjoy LoG, stop over analysing what their music "is" or "is about" and just f***ing enjoy it. it's there to be enjoyed, so stop thinking, and start headbanging.
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53. writes:
I'm so f***in sick of hearing people [posers?] cry about LOG and their music. They are what they are and if u don't f***in like it, then f*** off. No one forces u to listen to it. No one is interested about how much u hate this band. The vocals assist in keeping a brutal sound, clean vocals would not work. Cheers c***suckers!
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54. writes:
Hell Yeah bro, I totally agree with you, if people don't like em, don't b**** about it, like who the f*** cares if you don't like em? If you don't like Lamb of God then too f***ing bad. Like Randy says "This ain't yours, well f*** You, don't try"
I'm stoked about the new album, and I'm taking a roadtrip with my fellow metalheads to Edmonton to see em play with Metallica, its gonna f***ing f***ING INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!
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1. Vinny the Metalhead writes:
I'm so freakin' excited for the new album!