In a latest interview with Heavy New York, LAMB OF GOD bassist John Campbell was requested if there are any plans for him and his bandmates to have fun the 20th anniversary of their third album, “As The Palaces Burn”, which got here out in Might 2003 by way of Prosthetic Information. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “So far as the anniversary of that, these are simply mile markers that, extra usually than, the advertising division and the document labels wanna have fun. It is loopy for me to look again: holy shit; that was how way back? Fuck! So, sure, we’ll actually take a second to applaud that because the date comes round. If we play a present, possibly we’ll do one thing particular.”
Campbell additionally talked about how LAMB OF GOD‘s songwriting has advanced since “As The Palaces Burn”, saying: “I might say it was much more collaborative at that time in that we might have a component — somebody would herald a component — and we’d all be taught the half after which we might sit there and play the half again and again; it was simply drilled into everyone’s head. After which add elements to that, or nevertheless that is gonna go. And that was additionally earlier than it was straightforward to have a house recording studio the place you can simply have your laptop computer and plug your guitar in and begin monitoring. In order that has undoubtedly modified our strategy in writing. We are able to undoubtedly ship stuff round and be capable of take heed to it in our personal time to form of work out further stuff that we’re gonna do or no matter we’d wanna do. However so far as the aim of the writing, that is remained the identical. From the start, we simply needed to be a steel band that may present up, you’d watch, your jaw would hit the ground, and all of the songs we performed blazingly quick and tight. And that is form of nonetheless been the main target.”
The follow-up to 2000’s “New American Gospel”, “As The Palaces Burn” was produced by Canadian musician and producer Devin Townsend.
Concerning how Townsend got here to be concerned with the challenge, LAMB OF GOD‘s then-drummer Chris Adler instructed Revolver journal: “I have been an enormous fan of Devin‘s manufacturing model for a very very long time. He’d heard the final document, he noticed us once we performed Vancouver, and he was into what we have been attempting to do, which was actually thrilling for us. He got here all the way down to Richmond, we introduced him to the studio straight off the aircraft, and we began working that evening. The very first thing we did was arrange all of the devices and play the whole album, from first track to final. We have been like, ‘That is the album, these are the songs — that is the way in which they’re staying. We want your assist in getting nice performances out of us, nice sounds, and gluing them collectively.’ And he got here by like a champ.”
In 2013, LAMB OF GOD launched a tenth-anniversary version of “As The Palaces Burn”, with all songs on the album remixed and remastered, alongside three bonus demo tracks,
LAMB OF GOD‘s newest album, “Omens”, was launched in October. The LP is the follow-up to LAMB OF GOD‘s self-titled album, which arrived in June 2020. That effort marked LAMB OF GOD‘s first recordings with drummer Artwork Cruz, who joined the band in July 2019 because the alternative for Chris Adler.
