What is Mark Morton’s favorite Lamb of God album?

Richmond, Virginia’s favourite groove metal band Lamb of God has ten studio albums to their name and has covered a lot of ground in terms of sound, as per theprp. However, Mark Morton, the guitarist for the band, believes that one record from the LOG catalogue is superior to the others. “As The Palaces Burn,” the group’s 2003 sophomore album, is that endeavour. He recently told Gear4Music about his decision.

I just think there’s something really unique about that record. It’s really the sound of the band just kind of getting its legs up under ourselves as songwriters, just barely. And it’s naive and abstract at the same time, and the way it sounds, it doesn’t particularly sound very good, but it sounds on fire. It sounds sonically like… Someone told me very recently that, a good friend of mine said, ‘That record sounds like the colors that are on the cover.’ And I was, like, ‘Yeah, it’s like really burning bright red and yellow.’

And these are all very abstract reasons to pick this thing, but that’s why. I just think it’s just a very early representation of the elements of what Lamb Of God would eventually develop and refine. You can really listen top to bottom on that, and every song kind of has its own character, and it’s an interesting — kind of simple, the instrumentation and the production [are] very simple, but real cool, man.

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