LAMB OF GOD Drummer Talks About The Group's Upcoming CD

LAMB OF GOD have completed pre-production for the follow-up to 2003's "As the Palaces Burn", tentatively due before the end of the year through Epic Records. The band have spent the past two weeks with producer Machine (WHITE ZOMBIE, (HED)P.E., PITCHSHIFTER, ONE MINUTE SILENCE) in their rehearsal studio in Richmond, Virginia. A video "sneak peek" of the band in the studio has been posted online at the Epic Records web site at this location.

Commented drummer Chris Adler: "It's been a blast, the songs are so strong and so dense — we're all very focused at this point and ready to do this. There's a sense of anxiety or tension even — I think everyone involved is beginning to understand just how big the monster is and what we have on our hands. This is a very intense time for us."

Producer Machine added: "I've never met a band with such an innate sense of power in their songs. Experiencing LAMB OF GOD is like 12 rounds of boxing, with breakdowns, bursts and an overall constant pummeling. If you're not getting your ass kicked, then you're totally engrossed by what's transpiring around you. It's undeniable."

In a recent interview with Digital Noise, Adler offered more information about the songwriting process for the new CD. What follows are a couple of excerpts from that interview:

Digital Noise: What can fans expect from it in comparison to the last one?

Chris Adler: "Wow. That's a tough question cause it kind of sets us up for expectations to come abound. I think one of the things we set out to do is not to repeat ourselves. To challenge ourselves even above what we've done. Don't end up putting out the same thing and … always kind of progress individually with your ability to play your instrument. It kind of works in a weird way. You don't want to be a show-off guitar player because you figured out how to solo over the summer, but at the same time you want to work within the band and use that talent to make a better song and to make us a better band. I think that's what's happened with us. I think we've kind of grown closer together as friends and as musicians and as a band that has a little more experience in making this kind of music. It's nothing that's gonna shock anybody. We're not gonna be doing an acoustic ballads or anything like that. It's gonna be very much the same type of music, but at the same time for us, it was very challenging to put something in our minds even better together, better, more challenging, faster or slower whatever that may be after we did 'American Gospel'."

Digital Noise: Is there any part of the album in particular that has you completely jacked up or gives you goose bumps or something that you cannot wait for fans to hear?

Chris Adler: "(laughs) It's hard to put it in perspective right now because we haven't been able to, we've kind of been, these past three or four months, like neck deep in the fishbowl writing this stuff, so it's hard to like jump out and hear … hearing the songs without actually playing them. You're happy with your part, you know you're happy with the overall way it sounds, but until you get this thing on a CD and you're cruising down the highway, you really don't feel it happen. So we demoed these seven songs in January and I've been able to step outside the fishbowl and listen to those on CD in my car and stuff, and they're amazing songs. It's funny you asked that cause I had that actually happen on several of the songs the other day in the car, you get that chill. That's the way it's supposed to be for me, I'm in the band, and I wanna be that excited about it. As far as a listeners perspective, I certainly hope it happens. I think it has more potential to happen than on anything we've done before this."

Read Chris Adler's entire interview with Digital Noise at this location.