Lamb Of God helped reshape the landscape of metal in the 2000s thanks to albums such as As The Palaces Burn and Ashes Of The Wake. But in 2000, they were still an unknown band from Richmond, Virginia who had recently changed their name from the more provocative Burn The Priest and were about to drop their second album, New American Gospel. In 2007, guitarist Mark Morton and then-drummer Chris Adler looked back on the album that would sew the seeds for the New Wave Of American Heavy Metal.
From modest beginnings at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1990, Lamb Of God rose to become one of the most crucial and acknowledged metal names of the 21st Century. The story begins with guitarist Mark Morton, bassist John Campbell and drummer Chris Adler. Living in the same dormitory at the aforementioned university, the three started an essentially instrumental band.
