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Andrew Daly

“He handed me that famous pink Strat. That riff is the first thing I played – it had that riff in it. I’m lucky to be the guy it came out for”: Mark Morton on his all-star solo album feat. Grace Bowers, Tyler Bryant and a perfect solo from Jason Isbell

Mark Morton of Lamb of God photographed at home with a Gibson ES-335.

With Lamb of God, Mark Morton has chugged and shredded away while running the thrash, groove and death-metal gamut. He dropped his first solo record, Anesthetic, in 2019, which was a little different in sound. But even then, influences outside of heavy metal weren’t so apparent… until now.

Morton tells Guitarist that the Southern rock and blues vibes inherent in his latest solo record, Without the Pain, have always “kind of been there” for him, adding: “I was probably tuned into this kind of music even before heavy metal.

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