{"id":384,"date":"2011-01-29T10:43:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T09:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gustav.net\/wordpress\/?p=384"},"modified":"2013-12-27T11:51:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T11:51:37","slug":"lamb-of-god-enter-the-studio-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gustav.net\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"Lamb Of God\u2019s Chris Adler: The Gun Shy Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part I<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

There aren\u2019t many bands that can tour behind a single record for two years straight. But then again, most bands aren\u2019t Virginia\u2019s Lamb of God, who are arguably one of the biggest metal outfits in all the world. I mean, think about it \u2014 who else can tour two years running on a metal record? Metallica did it on\u00a0Death Magnetic<\/em>, but other than that, there\u2019s only Slayer and Megadeth.<\/p>\n

\"Chris<\/a>Plus, the band\u2019s last record,\u00a0Wrath<\/em>, debuted at #2 on theBillboard<\/em> Top 200 back in early 2009, selling more than 68,000 copies. Such achievements are unheard of for a group so brutal, but Lamb of God have been slowly built an allegiant, underground following that appreciates the fact that the band\u2019s never softened, even after inking a major label deal. But two years is a long time to be away from home, and so now, the band\u2019s taking some time to unwind\u2026and then they will start to write new material.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just finished all the touring for\u00a0Wrath<\/em> which ended up taking, in full, about two years; I think the longest we were home at any time during those two years was about three weeks, so it\u2019s not often that \u2014 just kind of seeing what\u2019s going on out there \u2014 bands are able to tour that long,\u201d Lamb of God drummer Chris Adler tells Gun Shy Assassin, who you can tell truly appreciates the position his band\u2019s in and the opportunities that brings. \u201cIn fact, most bands are struggling to do anything and they\u2019re putting out an album a year. We\u2019ve been lucky to be able to keep going and it\u2019s been cool, but its also been really exhausting, so we\u2019re going to kind of lay low for the holidays, and then I think probably February, get together and start writing the new one which we hope to have done by the end of next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, people. That\u2019s right. Gun Shy Assassin spoke with the very humble Adler exclusively about Lamb of God and the plan for the foreseeable future and it goes something like this: In early 2011, start writing songs and be recording stuff by July, with an eye on releasing the new record sometime before the band starts a tour that\u2019s already been booked for January 2012.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re already booked for several tours in 2012, so, we\u2019ve already got the schedule rolling and a little job security, so things are good. We\u2019re booked through the end of July of 2012\u2026if we can hold it together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lamb of God have come along way since the Devin Townsend-produced\u00a0As The Palaces Burn<\/em>, the record that \u2014 in my opinion \u2014 was the beginning of LOG\u2019s mercurial rise.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty bizarre,\u201d Adler admits. \u201cWe\u2019ve been keeping our nose to the grindstone, and taking advantage of the opportunities and make smart moves. There\u2019s been very little time to reflect on that. We really don\u2019t even know our place anymore. We just keep trudging along at our own pace. I don\u2019t think any of us really recognize the size of what we\u2019ve accomplished. Yet. I don\u2019t know what that will happen but\u2026we\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Adler \u2014 who said being away from his wife and daughter the last two years was \u201creally tough, emotional torture\u201d \u2014 and the rest of Lamb of God, the next couple of months will be about unraveling, reconnecting with family, taking care of long-overdue home improvements, and \u201ctrying to get the creative juices flowing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Because 2011 is all about the new Lamb of God record, Adler says. \u201cIt\u2019s going to take a minute, but hopefully February, we\u2019ll start knocking around ideas,\u201d he says. \u201dI know there are a lot of ideas already. I think [guitarists] Willie [Adler, Chris\u2019 brother] and Mark [Morton] have eight or nine really good long ideas of what they want to do. We are working with Josh Wilbur again and hoping by July, we will be in a studio somewhere, with songs written, kind of banging \u2018em out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Video:<\/em> Lamb of God<\/strong> – “Hit the Wall”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Part II<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2011, Lamb of God will be on a break from the road, but focusing on their next record \u2014 the follow-up to 2009\u2019s\u00a0Wrath<\/em>, which will be the band\u2019s second straight record with Josh Wilbur at the helm. According to Chris Adler, the band hope to be tracking new material by July, with an eye towards releasing the disc in late 2011 or early 2012. But what\u2019s the plan for the next disc? Adler says he has \u201ca bunch of ideas\u201d he\u2019d like to present to the band for the new disc, and discussed the writing process and how it has evolved for Lamb of God over the years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m in the process of doing drum tablature books, and I\u2019m writing a little bit about each song, sort of telling the story, and if you go back and listen to all the albums, you can hear how the writing has changed,\u201d Adler tells Gun Shy Assassin. \u201cOn the first couple of albums, you can tell it is very rhythmically driven, especially [the band\u2019s 2000 LP]\u00a0New American Gospel<\/em>: it\u2019s all about these pummeling rhythms and those were basically ideas I had brought in, rhythmically. Same with [the follow-up,\u00a0As The Palaces Burn<\/em>]: there are lots of rhythms going on underneath some of the lead lines, and was really the driving force of those records.\u201d<\/p>\n

But things changed with\u00a0Sacrament<\/em> and the Grammy-nominated\u00a0Wrath<\/em>, Adler says.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the guitar players really stepped in to their own, you can tell the difference where they were bringing in ideas and I was kind of doing my best to come up with rhythms based on what they were doing,\u201d he explained. \u201cSacrament<\/em> is heavily guitar-driven as is\u00a0Wrath<\/em>. I have been \u2014 for the past two albums \u2014 been just sitting back and allowing these guys to do what they do because they\u2019re world class players now, and I have learned to play for the song and not really push my agenda and come in there and say, \u2018I don\u2019t like it\u2019 or whatever. I really enjoy working with these guys and respect what they\u2019re able to do in the writing process, so I don\u2019t want to get in the way. I have been collecting a bunch of ideas that I do want to throw in on this record. Just different kind of grooves\u2026a bunch of grooves and rhythms. I want to try to find ways to make those things happen underneath what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

During my recent chat with Chris Adler, I mentioned to him that Lamb of God were mentioned the other day on \u201cThe Howard Stern Show,\u201d when former employee K.C. Armstrong had a nervous breakdown on the air; Armstrong was blasting LOG and Lou Reed from his car as he drove around Los Angeles, singing at the top of his lungs.<\/p>\n

Adler says he\u2019s a fan of Stern, and is even pretty tight with Richard Christy, a writer on the show now who has drummed with Iced Earth, Death, and his band Charred Walls of the Damned.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt some point, years ago, we picked Richard up in New York,\u201d Adler starts telling me. \u201cIt was Ozzfest 2004, probably. He came out to the show in New York and he and I ended up having a few too many drinks. He ended up passing out in the bus and waking up in Philadelphia for the next show, and was working on how to get back to New York.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Christy had a week off from the Stern show, and ended up spending that week in Lamb of God\u2019s tour bus. \u201cHe ended up being my drum tech, because my guy couldn\u2019t get into Canada for some stupid reason, and they just wouldn\u2019t let the guy cross the border. Richard drum-teched for me across Canada for three or four shows. It was kind of embarassing to have him drum-teching for me because I knew, at any second, he could get up there and play circles around me. He\u2019s a monster\u2026definitely a world class dude, and he taught me a few things I\u2019m waiting to pull out of the bag for the next record.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before I ended our conversation, I asked Adler if he\u2019d seen AMC\u2019s \u201cThe Walking Dead\u201d yet. Having just found out about this show, spending the previous day watching all of the show\u2019s episodes on demand, I asked Adler about zombie apocalypses. Has he ever considered what he\u2019d do if the dead started strolling the Earth, looking for flesh to consume.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually just picked up Forrest Griffin\u2019s book \u2018Be Ready When The Shit Goes Down,\u2019 which is basically a survival guide for the zombie apocalypse. I\u2019m halfway through that and it goes through everything. It\u2019s kind of a joke, but it\u2019s kind of not. I\u2019m still in the process of buying my apocalyptic vehicle which will get us out of the metropolitan area, up until the hills in Virginia. That\u2019s sort of the idea\u2026to stay out of any metropolitan area that would be cordoned off or where disease can spread or infection can be transmitted. So, I have to talk my wife into buying a Hummer because right now, all we have is a couple of bikes and a Prius.\u201d<\/p>\n

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