Lamb of God

Tirés de l'album "Sacrament", vous pouvez trouver ici deux nouveaux titres de Lamb of God
http://lambofgod.tv/

LAMB OF GOD Best Of 2006 To Air On Sirius' Hard Attack
On Monday, January 1st at 6PM, Sirius' Hard Attack will be airing a LAMB OF GOD Best Of 2006 special. A show preview reads as follows: "Lamb Of God had a f’ing amazing year in 2006. Hard Attack is tight with the dudes in the band, and we’re playing back our favorite Lamb moments of the 2006 in this piledriving special. You’ll hear clips from interviews with the band members, and excerpts from their guest DJ shifts (they played DEATH, MESHUGGAH, METALLICA, MEGADETH, BURN THE PRIEST, WRATHCHILD AMERICA and of course their own music, among other awesome metal music)." A rebroadcast will air on Friday, January 12th at 9 pm ET.

For more info visit this location

LAMB OF GOD - Internet Ticket Pre-Sale Announced

LAMB OF GOD have issued the following update:

"The internet community gets first pick of pre-sale tickets for Lamb Of God's upcoming headlining tour!! Tickets will be available for each market at the link provided here.

You will need the following information:

username: lambofgod
password: tickets

The majority of tickets will have reduced service charges compared to the usual ticket outlets. This is a first come, first serve online ticket ordering system. The maximum order is four tickets.

If you have any questions or concerns with your ticketing experience, please contact Artist Arena directly at (212) 420-8080 or email: info@artistarena.com."

Upcoming Lamb Of God live dates can be found here

LAMB OF GOD - Adler Brothers To Appear At NAMM

The Adler brothers (guitarist Will Adler and drummer Chris Adler) will be making separate appearances at the 2007 NAMM Show, located at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California from January 18th-21st. Willie Adler to sign for ESP Guitars and world premier his custom designed signature model guitar. Chris Adler to sign for Meinl Cymbals, Mapex Drums and Pro-Mark Drum Sticks. Pro-Mark will also be introducing his custom, signature model Pro-Mark drumsticks (5AX) at the Pro-Mark booth. Check your NAMM schedule and/or endorser websites for times and details on the appearances

LAMB OF GOD Guitarist's Father - "It's Not Particularly Our Type Of Music, But We're Extremely Proud"

The following report is courtesy of Malcolm Venable from The Virginian-Pilot:

While only the truly obsessed will watch every minute of the annual Grammy music awards Sunday night, one group in Hampton Roads will be glued to the television.

Six artists with local roots are nominated for awards, and their relatives who can't go to the ceremony in Los Angeles are making plans to watch it from here. Tickets to the show cost anywhere from $700 to $2,500.

Raymond and Marianne Morton's son Mark Morton is a guitarist in the Richmond-based heavy-metal group LAMB OF GOD, which is one of five nominees for Best Metal Performance.

The Mortons live in Williamsburg but may watch the broadcast Sunday from Mark's home in Henrico County, where they sometimes housesit and take care of his dog and cat.

And even though their son's category isn't on the schedule for the Grammy broadcast, they're thrilled.

"Just to look at him from where he started a few years ago, practicing at our house and doing the Battle

of the Bands in Hampton Roads, he has come a long way," Raymond Morton said. "I don't even know if we realized how big they are. Maybe because we've watched him eat and sleep with his guitar since he was 6 or 7, and now to see him in all the magazines and realize he's one of the top guitarists in the heavy-metal field, it's quite an accomplishment.

"It's not particularly our type of music" - Raymond favors country and music from the '60s and '70s - "but we're extremely proud."

Read more here.

(Photo: Mark Morton, middle, is the guitarist in the Richmond-based heavy metal group Lamb of God, nominees for best metal performance. His parents, Marianne and Mark Morton won’t be able to go. Tickets to the show cost from $700 to $2,500.)

LAMB OF GOD - "Nominated For A Grammy, Despite Themselves"

Following up his previous report on LAMB OF GOD and their Grammy Award nomination, Malcolm Venable from The Virginian-Pilot has issued this follow-up:

For death metal act Lamb of God, getting nominated for a Grammy has brought out a part of them they never knew was lurking inside.

“It’s really an interesting double-edged sword,” said Chris Adler, the group’s drummer. “Back in the day, when (the Grammys) came on, we’d just turn it off. It was just all this crap music. We’re like, 'I don’t even know anybody that listens to this stuff.’ They were these weird albums that were, in my opinion, just horrible. I certainly never aspired to get one.

“Now that we’re in this spot to receive one, it’s obviously overwhelmingly flattering to be picked out. It does mean a lot. At the same time we’re kind of jaded, like, 'Did we do something wrong?’”

The band from Richmond, a nominee for best metal performance, attends this year’s Grammys on the strength of its song “Redneck,” from the album “Sacrament.” Two of the members are from the area – vocalist Randy Blythe attended Western Branch High School in Chesapeake and the Governor’s School for the Arts, and guitarist Mark Morton grew up in Williamsburg. They met as students at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1990.

“I worked at all the pancake houses along Richmond Road,” said Morton, a Lafayette High School grad who spent a chunk of his high school years driving up and down I-64 playing gigs with his then-bandmates.

There was a place called On Stage in Norfolk. We weren’t even old enough to be in there, but the owner would let us play. He wouldn’t give us any money, and he would make us stand in a corner because we couldn’t be drinking. We would drive down on Friday, play for free, go home and then drive back on Saturday and play for free again, and we just thought that was the best hook-up.”

Forward some 15 years, and Morton and his college chums will strut the crimson carpet on the biggest night in music. As hard-core metal goes, “Redneck” is considerably light. In fact, it was nearly chopped off the album for fear of alienating the group’s core audience.

“We initially thought it might have been too soft,” said Adler. “We knew it felt good to play, and when it came down to picking songs for the record, we were like, 'Why would we cut a song we had fun playing?’ It doesn’t mean it’s the only thing we can do. We did a funny video for it.”

Reminiscent of vintage Twisted Sister, the “Redneck” video is a campy delight. It features the band crashing a little girl’s birthday party in the bucolic suburbs after Mom innocently plucks LoG’s name from a phone book ad. It plays off two notions: that living behind white picket fences is, for some, suffocating – subversion is one of the band’s major themes – and plays off the confusion many have about LoG’s name. They’re frequently mistaken for a Christian rock group.

“We just thought it was a cool name for a band,” said Morton. “You can dissect it, but metal as a genre has always used religious icons – Black Sabbath, Judas Priest.” To wit: LoG’s original name was Burn The Priest.

“When we put the band together, basically as kids, it was all about offending and shocking. As we were garnering attention, we just felt like we were selling ourselves short, just doing it for shock value. We wanted something more serious, and I think Lamb of God is still kind of cutting edge because people don’t know how to take it.”

The Grammy nomination comes at a time that suggests an upswing for rock culture at large. Unlike 2004 – when OutKast, 50 Cent, Eminem, Missy Elliott, Jay-Z and other hip-hop artists were up for awards – hip-hoppers aren’t gunning for big awards outside the hip-hop categories. The Grammys also dropped the female rap category. “It’s definitely shifted towards rock,” said Adler, “but everything is cyclical. Now that you have metal and hard rock popular, that means that tomorrow it’ll no longer be cool.”

Metalheads, however, have a while to go before they totally take over: The award for best metal performance won’t be shown on TV.

“Because we’re metal we get no love,” Morton said. “They won’t show our part. But I prefer the hip-hop anyway. That’s what I spend most of my time listening to.”

LAMB OF GOD - Audio, Video Interviews Available

LAMB OF GOD have issued the following update:

Several new interviews focusing on everything from the Lamb Of God Grammy Nomination to tour and gear are now available online.

Check them out here:

- MTV.com interview with the band on the Red Carpet at the 49th annual Grammy Awards (Video Interview).

- ESP Guitars interview with Willie about his new custom guitar and his tour mates. (Video Interview)

Willie is also the current front page highlighted artist at http://www.espguitars.com/ and details and pictures of his new custom model can be located here .

- DC101 interview with Chris both pre and post Grammy show about the 2007 Grammy awards. (Audio Interview)

- Virginia Pilot Online interview with Mark's family members about Lamb Of God and the the 49th Annual Grammy Awards.

- Richmond Times Dispatch interview with Chris about the 49th Annual Grammy Awards and the bands Nomination.

- Chronix Radio interview with Chris on The Grammy's, NAMM '07, upcoming touring, his gear, and his current favorite bands. (Audio Interview)

LAMB OF GOD Nominated For Guys Choice SPIKE TV Award

BW&BK has received the following press release:

Whose Got The Biggest Balls Of Them All?

Spike TV is giving the biggest shout-outs in television history to the things guys love most with the first annual Guys Choice. In what is sure to be the signature event for the channel, Spike TV will rely on its millions of rabid viewers to pick who is the best of the best from the worlds of film, television, sports, music and the internet.

We are pleased to announce that, Grammy nominated, LAMB OF GOD has been nominated in the inaugural year of Spike TV's Guys Choice in the category of Ballsiest Band. We have attached the categories and nominees (additional nominations will be announced shortly on SpikeTV.com). This star-studded event featuring everything that guys want is the first awards show to narrow the field for all categories to only two nominees, so it can be settled like men: ‘mano a mano’. Voting is held online at www.guyschoice.spiketv.com and runs through Friday, June 1.

The show will tape on June 9, in Los Angeles, and premiere on Spike TV on June 13th at 10 PM.

LAMB OF GOD Drummer Chris Adler Offers Band Update

LAMB OF GOD drummer Chris Adler has offered a brief update on recent and current activities.

"Here’s a quick update on what’s been happening around the LOG camp. Following our spring tour with GOJIRA, MACHINE HEAD and TRIVIUM, we headed over to Japan, Australia and New Zealand for a few weeks. Truly amazing part of the planet and I feel lucky to have had the chance to return. Incredible shows, totally insane signings and meet and greets, and real hospitality that make us all look forward to heading back. Once home, we barely had enough time to catch up on our sleep before we flew back over the pond to begin a month across Western Europe. This trip included most of the European summer festivals including shows and festivals in the beautiful Nordic countries. We had done a few of the festivals several years ago, but this time was beyond any expectations. The word of LOG has obviously spread! These were some of the biggest shows of our career (Download festival was 75,000 people!!!). It is an amazing and exhilarating feeling to perform in front of such incredible audiences. I for one am very thankful for the opportunity – it is a dream realized and I will never forget it. While there, we were invited to attend and perform at the Metal Hammer awards – going into it I didn’t really know what to expect since we don’t have anything similar over here, but basically it’s like the Grammy’s for Metal in the UK. Red carpet and all. Good thing I had my camo shorts! We arrived home just a few days ago and immediately went to work preparing for Ozzfest. We fly to Seattle in just a few days. Just this morning we loaded the semi and sent it on its way. There’s a million behind the scenes stories, bloopers and blunders to tell, and I promise they will see the light of day in part 2 of the Sacrament DVD, but for now, I gotta get some rest! If you’re able to, come say hi on Ozzfest. Help us and many of the bands continue to enlighten and push metal further than it’s ever been. We plan on putting on our best show yet and what the hell - even if you hate us – we’ll make sure you get your money’s worth!!!"

Ozzfest is slated to begin on July 12 in Seattle, Washington. Tour dates including headlining Off-Fest Concert appearances and details can be found here.