Things are moving really fast with the new Lamb Of God record. They started writing and recording in November. Last month, frontman Randy Blythe said the new material sounds pretty monstrous.
But where are they now? Drummer Chris Adler called into SiriusXM Liquid Metal's weekly live call-in show #666Live and offered an update on the progress of the new record:
Mangin:I was gonna ask you just to conclude a Lamb of God update–do you guys have some song ideas written, have you guys had the band meeting, do you guys have a plan for 2015?
Adler: We do, we’ve got a couple big things lined up already, both commitments that we had kinda made before we got into the writing and recording schedule. So we’re heading to Australia in just a little bit in February for Soundwave festival, which we’re excited to get back on stage. Then I guess we’re doing a couple festivals in June where we may, I’m not sure–we haven’t had that band meeting–but we may be playing some new material on those things, but those things are kind of 45 minutes greatest hits show, so nobody really wants to hear anything new, they want to kill each other to “Now You’ve Got Something To Die For” and “Black Label,” so we’ll figure it out when we get there. But definitely the plan is by the end of the year is to have a new album out and do a very full extensive U.S. run.
Mangin: Wow, and how about song ideas? How are they fleshing out Chris?
Adler: It’s great. I guess the thing that I was overwhelmed with was the idea of us taking the year off of 2014 and then have us come together basically around now and start putting things together. But as usual, everybody is a little antsy and wanting to jam and it wasn’t like, “Oh hey, Willie [Adler] has an idea and Mark [Morton] has this kinda cool solo thing he wants to add on top of it”–both of these guys came in with about fifty different song ideas. So what’s been great is just going through all these ideas which are all really good and being able to say okay we have this much material, let’s pick the top 10 or top 15 or 20, and just keep working on that. Then they get upset because number 42 had their favorite part–so okay, grab that favorite part from 42 and let’s make song 6 way better. So it’s been that kind of a process as we go along. Also I’ve noticed the guys are really writing the kind of stuff that I find myself kind of…I don’t know…I don’t want to say singing along, because there’s no vocals on them yet, but the melodies of the ideas really stick with me, which is one of the things that if I were to ever complain about more of the recent stuff that I’ve been buying music-wise–it’s great while I’m listening to it, I’m impressed, it’s over my head, it blows me away, but when I’m done with it I couldn’t tell you how it goes. Our goal is you know, that the guys that’ll write the songs that stick with you are the guys that are gonna stick around. So I’m really impressed with what these guys have been doing on a songwriting level, stepping it up and writing stuff that kinda sticks with you.
The thought of being able to hear new Lamb of God music this summer really excites me.
You can check out the transcript of the full interview over at Revolver.
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