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INTERVIEW | MORE INTERVIEWS | SUBMIT MATERIALInterview with Lamb Of God | VIEW COMMENTS [0 Comments] | ADD COMMENTS |  Posted on 22 February 2010 | Interviewer Rob Sayce Ahead of Lamb Of God’s recent sell out show at Brixton Academy, we sat down for a quick chat with guitarist Willie Adler to see how things are looking in the world of LOG. Planet Loud - First of all then, how’s it going? How’s the tour been so far? Lamb Of God - The tour’s good man, so far so good, we’re about a week in now, but it’s real good, for sure. The UK is always really good to us, and the atmosphere at the shows has been great. Planet Loud - (Sound of fans chanting ‘Lamb Of God’ filters in from outside) Yeah, can imagine! You’re heading up a really impressive and varied bill this time around, have you had the chance to check out the other bands as yet? Lamb Of God - I haven’t yet, I get so strapped up doing stuff on my computer and calling my wife... these are early shows too, so before I know it two of the bands have already played. I intend to, for sure. Planet Loud - So, what kind of mix of material have you put into the setlists for this tour? You’ve got six albums to choose from so it could be a really tough choice these days? Lamb Of God - Well there’s a lot of ‘Wrath’ on it just because that’s what we’re out here promoting, but it’s definitely mixed up with a fair share of the older stuff as well. It’s definitely a tough choice. Planet Loud - ‘Wrath’ seemed to come across as a rawer, more direct album than ‘Sacrament’, was that shift in direction down to a conscious decision? Lamb Of God - It was, coming off the back of ‘Sacrament’... we needed ‘Sacrament,’ it was a great step up for us in production for us after Ashes, so we really just wanted to get back to just Lamb Of God, the five guys that started it. We wanted an accurate representation of, if you came to see us live, this is the energy and the feeling that you’d get. We definitely wanted it to be more raw and less produced, have the songs as focused as we could at that point. Planet Loud - You switched producers this time around, working with Josh Wilbur rather than Machine... Lamb Of God - Yeah, he was an engineer on ‘Sacrament’, so we’d worked with him before. Josh was really excited about the project, and he was willing to come down while we were still writing, to do some pre-production sessions with us and see where we were at that point. The whole writing process was far more beneficial with him being there, and him having his whole rig there so we could record, and he could easily say ‘what if this part happened after this part, instead of where it is now’, he could change it within five seconds and have us listen to it. It was great to have that third person’s point of view. He was really excited about it, which was great. Planet Loud - Do you tend to listen to much contemporary metal these days? A lot of bands we speak to seem to avoid heavy music in their downtime, due to being surrounded by metal constantly? Lamb Of God - To be honest I don’t listen to that much metal anymore... every so often a band comes along that really grabs me and I’ll check them out, but like you said we’re bombarded with metal 24/7 so the last thing that we want to do is come offstage and crank heavy metal (laughs). Planet Loud - You’re viewed as among the leaders of the contemporary metal scene, in terms of fanbase, critical success and so on.... is that perception something that you have a particular view on, is it something that you take with a pinch of salt? Lamb Of God - Yeah, we take everything with a grain of salt because we know that all of this could end, easily within a year or a couple of years, so it’s just something that, we’ve always loved doing this and will continue to do it as long as we really enjoy it and love it. We try not to let anything get to our heads or anything like that, we try to stay as grounded as we can. Planet Loud - Regarding the creative process behind an album, do you feel that your personal approach to songwriting has changed or evolved over the years, alongside the band’s sound? Or has it remained pretty constant? Lamb Of God - It’s pretty constant. I’ve got my routine, and there’s nothing like... I don’t go into it being like ‘it’s going to be like this and it’s not going to be like that’, I just sit down and start playing, it’s pretty much always been the same for me in that way. If I’m writing and something gives me goosebumps, I think ‘wow this is great,’ then that’s it pretty much, I’ll just record it. Planet Loud - It’s been mentioned in the past that you work very collaboratively in writing as a band; do you generally have a pretty united idea of where you want to take things, what you’d like a track to sound like and so on? Lamb Of God - Well naturally there are times that we don’t agree on things, but we’ve been doing this together for so long, especially with Mark there’s such a great dynamic, we can play off of each other really well. We’ve learned how to see each other’s strengths and weaknesses and we really play off of that. Like I said there are times that we disagree and that one guy has to fold on another part, but for the most part we’re pretty in sync with each other. Planet Loud - Are you bringing out much in the way of embellishments for the stage show, backdrops et cetera? How do you view those elements of the live show? Lamb Of God - Well it’s secondary to the music, but it’s definitely something that we’re conscious of and want to make sure that kids see a great show, to have that there as well as the music, to enhance it. Planet Loud - It can be a balance between focusing purely on the music and going over the top, the show detracting from the music itself. Lamb Of God - Yeah, absolutely. Planet Loud - Following tonight’s show you’ll be heading into Europe for a while, and then onto the Mayhem Festival in the states later in the year... how do you feel about the almost nomadic lifestyle of being on the road for such long periods? Lamb Of God - Ah, well it’s not something that I enjoy. It’s great to play shows, to see the kids freaking out, but that’s an hour and twenty minutes a day, the rest of the time is just sitting on your ass. I much prefer the writing portion of it, but like I said the shows are great, and overall they make it worthwhile doing it. Planet Loud - Can you see the yourselves writing the next Lamb Of God album over the next couple of years, or are you thinking of taking a break, seeing how things go? Lamb Of God - No, we’re definitely on a schedule. We’ll be touring ‘Wrath’ up until about October, and then we’ll probably take four months just to ourselves, to decompress. Then we’ll probably begin the writing process all through next year, hit the studio, and hopefully come out with something in early... would it be 2012? Yeah, early 2012. Planet Loud - Awesome. In the UK it can be difficult to visualise the sheer scale of tours like Mayhem and Ozzfest, or Sounds Of The Underground, with tonnes of dates all over the US. How do you find the experience of such lengthy tours? You’re on the main stage of Mayhem this year... Lamb Of God - I guess that it’s quite similar to doing a festival over here, but then again it’s a touring festival so... It’s real hectic for the first week or first few days like a festival, all go go go, throwing everything on and then throwing it off. But I’m sure that being on the main stage we’ll get a lot more time, and more access to do a bigger set. With Ozzfest or Mayhem, or Sounds, it’s always really fun because it’s almost like a summer camp as there are so many people, so many bands, so many people that you probably haven’t seen in years and can catch up with, everybody has parties and barbecues, it’s a good time. Planet Loud - Over the years you’ve continually developed and sustained the level of your fanbase, seeming to avoid the backlash and peaks and troughs in popularity that many bands face; Do you have any ideas as to how you’ve managed to keep such consistent popularity, do you think that it’s something that’s just naturally built up over the years? Lamb Of God - I guess so, I mean the more that you saturate a place and the more that you play for people, the more it builds... It takes writing good music as well of course. It’s hard to say, I mean, who knows why people like us (laughs). We’re just doing what we love to do and making music that we want to hear, and there are other people out there who like the same kind of thing that we do, so hopefully we can continue it for a long time to come. Planet Loud - So then, how’re you feeling about tonight’s show? Brixton’s a legendary venue.... Lamb Of God - Yeah man, I love it here, I love playing Brixton. This is the biggest show of the tour so we’re all looking forward to this show, London’s always great to us and the crowd always goes crazy, it’s a lot of fun. Planet Loud - Finally, is there anything you’d like to say to LOG fans reading this? Lamb Of God - Thanks a lot for supporting us over the last seven years, it’s always great to be back over here, so we’re definitely looking forward to coming back around again. Planet Loud - Cheers. Lamb Of God - No problem man. 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