.LambOfGod's upcoming self-titled album is the first to feature ex-Winds of Plague drummer Art Cruz
The band's upcoming self-titled album is the first to feature ex-Winds of Plague drummer Art Cruz.
As timely as it would be for Lamb of God to release an album full of Trump-trashing, it would be a pretty obvious move. In other words, that wasn’t gonna happen. For 20 years now, Lamb of God has thrived on skirting the predictable. In the mid-’90s, when it was pigeonholed as a new-wave-of-American-heavy-metal band alongside Mastodon, Killswitch Engage and Shadows Fall, Lamb of God stressed its thrash and hardcore roots.
The quartet has written songs about subjects including the Gulf War, U.S. policy in Afghanistan and drug enforcement, butis almost completely political, representing the turmoil of the times with pointed lyrics and piercing warnings. “New Colossal Hate” addresses income inequality and discrimination, “On the Hook” is about big pharma spoon-feeding addictive drugs to the masses, and “Poison Dream” confronts corporations that contaminate the environment.
“Willie and I had tons of material to work with since we collected lots of riffs and song ideas when we were writing at home over the last four years since the last Lamb album,” explains Morton. “But we very deliberately left room for each other to interpret or improve upon each other’s ideas, whereas in the past, it was more like, ‘OK, I’ve got these seven songs, he’s got these seven songs. Let’s each pick four or five of our best and work with those.’ This time, we were way more collaborative.
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