Lamb of God
band Groove metal Amerika yang terbentuk pada tahun 1990 di daerah Richmond, Virginia yang awalnya dikenal dengan nama Burn the Priest. Mereka mengubah nama tersebut setelah merilis debut album yang bertitel sama dengan nama band, yakni Burn the Priest (album) pada tahun 1999.Lamb of God konsisten dengan vokalis Randy Blythe, gitaris Mark Morton dan Willie Adler, bassis John Campbell, dan drummer Chris Adler. Selain itu musik yang mereka mainkan juga dikenal sebagai New Wave of American Heavy Metal.
Sejauh ini mereka telah merilis enam album penuh, satu album live dan
tiga DVD dengan penjualan yang rata-rata mencapai lebih dari dua juta
keping untuk wilayah Amerika. Dan pada tahun 2007 band ini dianugrahi
penghargaan Grammy untuk kategori Best Metal Performance atas rilisan bertitel Sacrament yang beredar pada tahun 2006. Lamb of God telah melakukan tur Ozzfest sebanyak dua kali dan mereka juga tampil di hajatan Download, Soundwave serta Gigantour.
Untuk pertama kalinya, band ini tampil di Indonesia yang diadakan oleh Solucites di tanggal 9 Maret 2009 dengan kesuksesan luar biasa.
Randy Blythe (Vocalis)
David Randall "Randy" Blythe (born February 21, 1971) is the vocalist of American groove metal band Lamb Of God and side-project band Halo of Locusts. He is known as D. Randall Blythe on Lamb of God's albums.[citation needed] As a teenager, he looked up to the Sex Pistols, Misfits, Bad Brains, Anthrax, Motorhead, Slayer, and Pantera.
In 2005, he worked with the metalcore outfit A Life Once Lost on their album Hunter.
He provided additional vocals on the track "Vulture" as well as helped
in the vocal processing of the track. He later worked with them again in
2007 on "Iron Gag." He also appeared on the song "Skull and Bones"" by the band Overkill and "Adoration for None" on Gojira's album The Way of All Flesh. He was also featured on Shadows Fall song, King of Nothing, on their latest release, Retribution.
Blythe also has a side project band known as Halo of Locusts. They contributed to For the Sick, the tribute album for Eyehategod, covering "Dixie Whiskey".[1]
He has a small tattoo on his hip that resembles a penis and two testicles. According to Blythe in Killadelphia, it was the result of him trying to tattoo the Misfits' logo on himself while drunk and passing out before he could finish it.[citation needed] He also has a tattoo on his left forearm reading COBHC, which stands for "Children Of Bodom Hate Crew" which is the name used by the band Children of Bodom for themselves, their crew, and their fans.
Mark Morton (Gitaris)
Morton frequently utilizes pentatonic scales and harmonic minor scales, and it has been noted that he has a blues style to his music. He composes and plays almost all of Lamb of God's guitar solos and forms many of the heavy groove rhythms.
His performing gear consists mostly of various Jackson guitars, including a Rhoads style and Swee-Tone archtop (both seen in the Killadelphia DVD) and, most often, his own signature model, the Jackson Dominion strung with GHS Boomer Strings 10-46 tuned to drop-D, loaded with a Seymour Duncan Invader Pickup in the bridge and a Duncan Jazz in the neck.[2] Onstage, Mark uses two Dual Mesa Boogie Mark V heads amplifiers with Mesa 4X12 cabinets His rack gear includes a Sennheiser wireless system, a DBX 266XL compressor / noise gate, and a splitter box. Mark only uses a few pedals on stage, Original Cry Baby Wah Pedal, MxR Eddie Van Halen
Phaser which "makes his solos sear", MxR Overdrive pedal, and a Boss
tuning pedal. Recently, it has been rumored that a signature Crybaby
might be in production.
Willie Adler (Gitaris)
William M. Adler (born January 26, 1976) is the rhythm guitarist in the groove metal band Lamb Of God. He is the younger brother of bandmate Chris Adler.Willie joined Lamb of God after the first guitarist, Abe Spear, left the band. Self-taught, Willie is well known for his unconventional style of playing, which includes odd/dissonant chord shapes, unique timing patterns, odd rhythms, high usage of his fretting hand's pinky finger, wide stretches between frets due to an increased reach, and being an obsessive perfectionist with his right hand rhythm playing. He plays mostly the jagged staccato riffs in Lamb of God's songs, while Mark Morton plays more of the groove-oriented rhythms and solos. Willie does solo occasionally, and says whereas Morton is more knowledgeable of scales and modes, that he "attacks solos like a division problem". Willie is described by bassist John Campbell as a "good time guitar player." Willie and brother Chris Adler have been described as the metal purists in the band.
Willie is a primary songwriter in Lamb of God. His songs include "Black Label," "11th Hour," "Blood Junkie," "Hourglass," "Blood of the Scribe," "Beating on Death's Door," "Ashes of the Wake," "Ruin" and "Again We Rise." Adler also co writes songs with Mark Morton, as he wrote the pre-solo breakdown to "Walk With me in Hell", and all of "In Your Words" up until the atmospheric ending which Mark Morton penned. One of his influences that got him into music was Metallica when he was 11 years old.
John Campbell (Bassist)
Unlike many bass players who will use four and five string basses, Campbell at one time played a self modified three-stringed Guild Pilot bass, excluding the higher G-string. Like Lamb of God drummer Chris Adler, Campbell is a vegetarian.[2]
Chris Adler (Drummer)
Christopher James Adler (born November 23, 1972) is an American drummer, best known as a member of the groove metal band Lamb Of God. He is the older brother of bandmate and guitarist Willie Adler. Chris had played in several local bands before joining Lamb of God in 1994.Before devoting his career to Lamb of God, Adler was planning a career as a Network Engineer. He is Microsoft certified. Adler admits that even today he still gets nervous before big shows, "I have to watch the video when we are done because I kinda black out and just run on adrenaline and muscle memory." His favorite song to play live is Hourglass.
