LAMB OF GOD

LAMB OF GOD Featured In LA Times

The LA Times has issued the following report from Greg Burk:

"You'd never know it from television, but heavy metal is a whole different beast now than it was in the '80s. Let's play a contrast game, and see if you can guess which two bands are being described.

* Band of the 1980s: big hair. Band of today: big beards.
* '80s: prom-rock crooning. Today: rasping roar.
* '80s: heroin. Today: beer.
* '80s: hung out with strippers. Today: hired a hooker - to clean their bus.
* '80s: "Shout at the Devil." Today: "New American Gospel."

Representing the '80s could be MÖTLEY CRÜE or a hundred other melodic metallurgists. Representing today's generation: LAMB OF GOD.

Lamb of God doesn't get any mainstream radio play, newsmagazine coverage or Late Night With David Letterman spots. It has no songs you can hum. It's neither satanic nor religious. But among the thousands of American dark-metal groups that have emerged in the last decade, it is the leader.

It's albums, including last year's Sacrament, have moved a few hundred thousand units each. Its Killadelphia DVD is pushing platinum. It got a Grammy nomination this year for the song 'Redneck' ("You can tell the same lie a thousand times / But it never gets any more true"). It tours the world, and every show sells out.

Why? Precision-tooled musicianship. A lack of fan-band barriers. And a radical point of view, in both sound and lyrics.

"I think the political and economic climate lends itself to something a little bit heavier," growls vocalist Randy Blythe, from Richmond, Va., Lamb Of God's hometown. "In bad times, you don't want to listen to happy, singalong, boy-meets-girl music."

Read the full story in the LA Times.