Lamb of God release “Sepsis (Live at Aftershock 2025)”

Lamb of God recently released their first single after three years of silence, “Sepsis“. An incredible live video capturing the song’s explosive debut in front of tens of thousands of fans at the Aftershock Festival is now available:

Directed by Sam Shapiro and Kevin Garcia, the video was shot the day after the song’s release. Before launching into the four-minute track, Randy Blythe introduced the song by saying, “This song is about a national sickness,” while John Campbell, Mark Morton, Willie Adler and Art Cruz joined him amid the cheers of the crowd.

Produced by Josh Wilbur, the three-and-a-half-minute track is accompanied by a raw, lo-fi video that offers a moody, unfiltered look at the suburbs of Richmond. Directed by Gianfranco Svagelj, the video captures the slow tension of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEb49Q9ZRGo

Sepsis is a celebration of the very underground local bands here in Richmond that we really admired when we were just forming Burn the Priest. Bands like Breadwinner, Sliang Laos, and Ladyfinger—though they never got widespread attention outside of Richmond, those were the bands we listened to all the time. The song references that stuff in a way that’s a direct line to where we were coming from when we were in the basement writing our earliest material together.

“Sepsis” arrives in a pivotal year for Lamb of God. In 2025, the band celebrated its 25th anniversary, performed the historic “Back to the Beginning” concert, and subsequently released its own interpretation of Black Sabbath‘s “Children of the Grave,” as well as participating in several festivals, including Inkcarceration and Louder Than Life, and a headlining concert at Richmond’s new 7,500-seat outdoor venue, the Allianz Amphitheatre, during its opening season.

Lamb of God is Randy Blythe (vocals), John Campbell (bass), Mark Morton (guitar), Willie Adler (guitar) and Art Cruz (drums). Formed in 1994, the Richmond, Va.-based band has released nine critically-acclaimed albums, received five GRAMMY® Award nominations, sold over 3 million albums, packed arenas around the world, and tallied over one billion streams and counting. Widely regarded as one of the most influential and innovative forces in modern heavy music Lamb of God’s most recent collection, “Omens”, arrived in late 2022 , marking their sixth consecutive album to debut in the Top 15 of on the Billboard 200. Kerrang! notied that the album finds the band “as reliably heavy, violent, and pissed off as ever,” and Consequence said the “album will break you down to nihilistic pieces.”