Lamb of God

[A.R.Amistad]

Hey, I've been searching as many Lamb of God songs as I can but I can't find any explicitly leftist or revolutionary songs. Can anyone suggest any, because I have heard they are out there in LOG's music library.

[Sasha]

never heard that lamb of god had any specific leftist songs.
i do know that when they played my work recently they defended gayrights...

[Sam_b]

I have absolutely no idea if they're even leftists. I'm not that much of a fan, but I always thought they had a decent drummer. Very tight.

[A.R.Amistad]

I don't think they are outright leftists but they sing some left wing songs apparently.

[Sean]

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[A.R.Amistad]

epic

[Lyev]

I have absolutely no idea if they're even leftists. I'm not that much of a fan, but I always thought they had a decent drummer. Very tight.
Yeah, he's absolutely cracking, his name's Chris Adler I think. He seems like a very nice, down to earth guy too. They do have some leftist leanings, definitely. I think their second album, correct me if I'm wrong, 'Ashes of the Wake' is very anti Iraq war. I think it came out in 2003 or 2004. They quote Plato, on the inside of the album sleeve; 'only the dead have seen the end of the war'*. There's the song 'Now You've Got Something To Die For' from that album.


Now you've got something to die for
Now you've got something to die for
Infidel, Imperial
Lust for blood, a blind crusade
Apocalyptic, we count the days

Bombs to set the people free, blood to feed the dollar tree
Flags for coffins on the screen, oil for the machine
Army of liberation, gunpoint indoctrination
The fires of sedition
Fulfill the prophecy

Now you've got something to die for
Now you've got something to die for

Send the children to the fire, sons and daughters stack the pyre
Stoke the flame of the empire, live to lie another day
Face of hypocrisy, raping democracy
Apocalyptic, we count the days

We'll never get out of this hole, until we've dug our own grave
And drag the rest down with us, the burning home of the brave
Burn
Now you've got something to die for
Now you've got something to die for

Not bad, now I've actually read them.

*After a bit of research it turns out it's not originally a Plato quote.

[Sasha]

they played my work again this week, it was an awsome show.
they had an huge backdrop with this flag:
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:K4V54F246xvlxM:http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb218/baccababa/flag.jpg

dont know the exact political meaning but i'm quite sure it wont go down good with most rightists :lol:

[Sasha]

ITV: How was the process of writing Sacrament different for the band than past albums?
RB: My band, in general, would like me to be more involved with the writing process. Since I don’t play an instrument, it’s hard for me to be integral to the musical aspect of it. Whereas they’ll play a riff a thousand times and argue over the 16th note, and I’ll sit there for three hours and not really have an opinion on the matter. It all sounds the same to me. For me, the writing process was different in that Mark [Morton] and I both decided to take a step away from the political aspect of things. We tried to do that before Ashes of the Wake, and it didn’t work out. This time we really set out to not be political, and it worked. I was looking deeper within myself and finding the dark places and trying to find a way to convey that in a way that’s applicable to our situation as well as others, thereby making it universal.

ITV: Now that you've shifted away from the politics, do you see the band ever going back there in the future?
RB: Sure. I still pay attention to politics. I was reading something about Condoleezza Rice recently from the cover of Time magazine: “Why Iraq and Iran are forcing Condoleezza Rice to rethink U.S. foreign policy and deal with the world as it is.” That’s an indicative headline for the way this administration has run the show this whole time. They aren’t dealing with fucking reality. The rest of the world hates the United States. It hates our policies, and George Bush has just blindly blundered forth invading places. It’s no wonder that his approval ratings are shit. He’s going to be remembered as the worst president ever. I’ve been saying it all along that he’s an extension of the Reagan regime. As you can tell from my babbling of the mouth, we will get back into politics.

ITV: I look forward to it. It’s important, especially with the audience that Lamb of God reaches, that there’s an informed band voicing their opinions.
RB: I’ve been afraid of being labeled as this Bush-bashing political band, and that’s bullshit. We all pay attention to what’s going on. It’s not a knee-jerk reaction or anything. It’s real, and it’s there. However, you can only stand on a soap box and scream for so long, so we went with a more personal viewpoint on Sacrament. found this by the way...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Randy_Blythe_Ozzfest_2004.jpg

[pierrotlefou]

found this by the way...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Randy_Blythe_Ozzfest_2004.jpg
that dude wore that shirt for a few years straight. Anytime they would play shows I was at he'd be wearing it. Didn't know they even still did stuff.

[Invincible Summer]

IMO being Anti-Bush doesn't mean one is remotely revolutionary. Maybe left-liberal at best.

[Woyzeck]

As I said in the 'Leftist Metal' (http://www.revleft.com/vb/leftist-metal-t124473/index.html?t=124473) thread:


As for Lamb of God: wanting an end to the US-led occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan does not a radical leftist make. A lot of Americans from the libertarian-right to the KKK want an end to these conflicts but not out of some sense of internationalism, quite the opposite in fact. I'm not saying LOG fall into this category but they always struck me as just left-leaning libertarians. For instance in the linear notes of Ashes of the Wake (fucking killer record by the by) Randy Blythe salutes the US military saying:


"The men and women of the United States' armed services who are fighting and dying right now in the desert: I think this war is horseshit, but I respect y'all immensely. Please come back home safely to friends and family. America is waiting for you."


Get back to me when they express solidarity with the people currently living under the jackboot of these "men and women", and of course defend their right to resist them.

The last time they played in Ireland Blythe said on stage that the 'last I checked there was only one Ireland on the map' or something to that effect. :lol: