Lamb of God Tickets

America's heavy metal band namely Lamb of God formed in 1990 in Richmond, Virginia, was formerly renowned as Burn the Priest and released one studio album under the name. In 1994, i.e., the year when the band officially shaped up, Lamb of God includes members Randy Blythe ? the vocalist, Mark Morton and Willie Adler ? the guitarists, John Campbell ? the bassist, and Chris Adler as the drummer.

Since its inception and to date, Lamb of God has released five studio albums; one live album, and two DVDs. The band's collective sales equal approximately two million in the United States. Lamb of God has toured on Ozzfest twice, Download Festival, and Gigantour.

In 1990, the band came into existence adopting the name Burn the Priest when guitarist Mark Morton, drummer Chris Adler and bassist John Campbell were living as neighbors on the same floor of a dorm at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Apart meeting there, the band set off to producing and writing songs, which according to how Campbell describes, We would freeze our asses off, get really drunk and hang around the kerosene heaters trying to write metal songs. Subsequent to their graduation, Morton shifted to Chicago to pursue with further studies, for the purpose of attaining a master's degree, and was restored by guitarist Abe Spear. In 1995, Randy Blythe joined the band's line-up as vocalist.

Subsequent to ?come back' of Morton, Burn the Priest took off with their touring journey in Virginia. The band had a painstaking practice schedule to fight with local bands, up to five days a week. Campbell mentioned in an interview that if you don't practice, the bands in Richmond can flat outplay you and will blow you off the stage. Two local heavy metal bands, namely the Breadwinner and Sliang Laos, performed a crazy and complicated music note with great perfection and skill became the reason the band got stimulated to raise the bar melodiously and gave them the real insight of music necessary for success and achievement.

In the year 1997, Burn the Priest released two split seven-inches, one with ZED and another with Agents of Satan. The subsequent year, the band recorded a self-titled full length album with Steve Austin from Today Is The Day fame, it came out on Legion Records on April 13, 1999. Also, with the aid of mp3.com, an anthology CD of singles and other one-off tracks called Sevens and More was released. In 1999 Abe left the band after admitting himself to a rehabilitation center outside of Williamsburg, Virginia. His departure left an opening for a guitarist, which was filled by Chris's brother Willie Adler.

After a year of this assemblage, the band altered its name to Lamb of God and signed with Prosthetic Records. In late 2003, i.e., after giving away two turned popular releases and a DVD (Terror and Hubris) on Prosthetic Records, the band made a deal with Epic Records for a new recording contract. Their first release for the label, Ashes of the Wake, charted at number 27 on the Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 35,000. Since then, the album has sold over 250,500 copies in the United States.

On August 29, 2005, the band announced that their DVD Killadelphia, which also holds a complete record of the band on tour supporting Ashes of the Wake, had received Gold certification from the RIAA. The DVD presents an inclusive live performance at the Trocadero in October 2004 in Philadelphia, and also comprise of three of their music videos, commentary by the band, outtakes, soundchecks, and plethora of backstage shenanigans. The same year, Blythe and Morton also gave an interview for the documentary Metal: A Headbanger's Journey.

On January 25, 2006, a press release announced the re-release of Lamb of God's debut album, New American Gospel. The original, together with the self-titled debut Burn the Priest, were equally produced by Steve Austin, who was recognized for his outstanding work with Today Is the Day, Converge, and Unsane. The re-release was redone and repackaged with four new tracks, presenting exclusive liner notes from the band and a re-imaging of the album art by longtime band collaborator Ken Adams. The album was re-released on April 4, 2006.

Lamb of God's fourth studio album, Sacrament, charted the Billboard 200 at number 8 with first-week sales of 63,000. The album attained amazingly positive reviews, Cosmo Lee of Stylus Magazine mentions that Sacrament has the band's most tremendous and unforgettable songs up to now. Melodiously, there's no fat. According to Ed Thompson of IGN it is one of the best metal albums of 2006, and Jon Pareles of Blender consideres Sacrament a speed rush all the way through.

In the 2006 Lamb of God participated in The Unholy Alliance tour in North America together with Slayer, Mastodon, Children of Bodom, and Thine Eyes Bleed. The band joined the North American portion of Gigantour, headlined by Megadeth and attended the 2007 Download Festival and Ozzfest. Lamb of God was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for the song Redneck from Sacrament in 2006 at the 49th Grammy Awards. The award, however, went to Slayer for Eyes of the Insane.

On February 9, 2007 Lamb of God made its national television debut on Late Night with Conan O'Brien playing Pathetic from Sacrament. On September 8, 2007, the band announced that its DVD Killadelphia was certified Platinum by the RIAA. In early 2008, a full length DVD is planned to be released shortly.

The wall of death occurs at the beginning of the song Black Label, usually the last song in the set. The crowd divides to the left and right sides of the floor area, and then on Blythe's direction, run wildly towards the other side. This is much more intense than circle pits, which are also seen at Lamb of God concerts.

Nevertheless, Randy is no longer allowed to orchestrate walls of death, owing to health and safety, even though the crowd from time to time to perform the wall of death at the opening of Black Label, even if Randy did not ask them to sing along.