Lamb of God are gearing as much as launch their tenth studio album, Into Oblivion, on March 13 through Epic Data, and guitarist Mark Morton says the band discovered themselves revisiting the DNA that first outlined them.
Talking on The Downbeat Podcast with Craig Reynolds of Stray From The Path, Morton revealed there was no grand manifesto heading into the writing course of.
“Lamb of God may be very collaborative, and there is no assembly earlier than we get going about what our premise is gonna be,” he defined. “However I do suppose collectively we have been having conversations about, ‘Effectively, what’s it that we have gotten away from?’ Not as a result of something was essentially unsuitable… ‘Ditch’ is a monster… ‘Resurrection Man’… ‘Memento Mori’ was large. But it surely’s, like, what have we gotten away from that was actually on the genesis of this factor?”
A serious catalyst was the band’s Ashes Of The Wake 20-year anniversary tour, which compelled Morton to re-learn older materials in and out.
“While you be taught one thing like that and rehearse it a lot, you begin to perceive the patterns that you simply’re not likely… ‘Oh, I do not actually do this transfer anymore.’ However I am doing it now ‘trigger I am studying this factor that is 20 years outdated.”
As a substitute of revisiting Lamb Of God’s personal early information like As The Palaces Burn or New American Gospel, Morton selected a special path — diving again into the music that impressed these albums within the first place. That meant spinning The Haunted, At The Gates, and early Meshuggah.
“That The Haunted Made Me Do It report, I used to be burning that factor down. It is so good. And Slaughter Of The Soul by At The Gates, that is simply an absolute basic report,” Morton stated.
He singled out Destroy Erase Enhance by Meshuggah as one in every of his all-time favourite metallic albums. “Among the stuff, they get so summary… However for me, the type of essence of the essential groove that Destroy Erase Enhance has, that bizarre groove with an additional angle however it nonetheless grooves, that was an enormous affect.”
Morton additionally touched on drummer Artwork Cruz, who joined the band because the official alternative for Chris Adler in 2019. Now on his third album with the group, Cruz‘s presence continues to evolve.
On 2020’s self-titled report, Morton admits the band took a extra conservative strategy to the drum sound out of respect for the established Lamb Of God identification. “To alter drummers and have the drums be drastically totally different did not really feel proper for us,” he stated.
However Cruz‘s deep fandom of the band has turn into an surprising inventive asset.
“He can say issues like, ‘Effectively, Lamb of God in 2009 would’ve completed this.’ And we belief that perspective,” Morton defined. “So he is in a singular place to have the ability to honor that sound and in addition run with it, which he has completed. So I feel on the self-titled report, the drums have been handled somewhat extra conservative… After which over the course of the Omens report and now Into Oblivion, you see that type of evolving, because it ought to.”
Lamb Of God is ready to return to the highway this March for what guarantees to be the heaviest tour of 2026, with the North American trek that includes help from Kublai Khan TX, Match For An Post-mortem, and Sanguisugabogg. Get these dates beneath and get your tickets right here.
3/17 Nationwide Harbor, MD The Theater MGM Nationwide Harbor
3/19 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
3/20 Toronto, ON GCT Theatre
3/22 Detroit, MI Fox Theatre
3/24 Minneapolis, MN Armory
3/25 Chicago, IL Byline Financial institution Aragon Ballroom
3/27 Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorium
3/28 Salt Lake Metropolis, UT The Union Occasion Heart
3/30 Portland, OR Theater of the Clouds
3/31 Seattle, WA WAMU Theater
4/1 Vancouver, BC PNE Discussion board
4/3 San Francisco, CA The Masonic
4/4 Inglewood, CA YouTube Theater
4/5 Phoenix, AZ Arizona Monetary Theatre
4/7 Albuquerque, NM Revel Leisure Heart
4/10 Austin, TX Moody Amphitheater
4/11 Irving, TX The Pavilion at Toyota Music Manufacturing unit
4/12 Houston, TX 713 Music Corridor
4/14 Nashville, TN Warfare Memorial Auditorium
4/15 Atlanta, GA Coca-Cola Roxy Theatre
4/16 Raleigh, NC Purple Hat Amphitheater
4/18 Studying, PA Santander Enviornment
4/19 Virginia Seashore, VA The Dome
4/21 Buffalo, NY Buffalo RiverWorks
4/23 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Paramount
4/25 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Solar Enviornment
4/26 Boston, MA MGM Music Corridor at Fenway
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