Here’s How Mark Morton Ranks Every Lamb of God Album

Lamb of God guitarist Mark Morton has revealed his private rating of each Lamb of God album.

The solely document not included on this rating, which Morton did by way of video with Revolver, is Omens, which can be launched on Oct. 7. Since followers have not had the chance to listen to it but, he did not really feel it might be completely honest to debate the way it fares amid the remaining of the Lamb of God catalog.

Bringing up the rear at No. 8 is 2015’s VII: Sturm und Drang, of which Morton remembers heaps of rigidity that existed inside the band and the strained private relationships between the band’s members. Although he wrote a good deal of the album, the guitarist insists, “the relationship I had with that material wasn’t particularly enriched.” He did shout out “Embers” as a spotlight, nevertheless, noting that it is not all dangerous in his eyes.

Resolution falls at No. 7 and Morton stated of the 2012 album that it was a “shitty time” for him personally, coping with habit points. “I am firmly in long term recovery now and I’m open about that as well and it’s a wonderful thing, but I wasn’t then,” he remembers, partially, later including, “On a purely technical or critical standpoint on the record, it’s just too long.”

Morton jokes the “third shittiest” Lamb of God album is their 2000 debut New American Gospel, which claims the No. 6 spot. Not making an attempt to downplay the importance of the album regarding the band’s early success, he admits the low degree manufacturing renders the album “unlistenable.” Still, he is grateful for the educational course of that got here with it.

At No. 5 is 2006’s Sacrament, which bears some all-time Lamb of God songs in “Redneck” and “Walk With Me in Hell.” Morton’s criticism? It’s “inconsistent” on the entire with some songs “you just kind of want to skip over.”

Wrath, the 2009 album that succeeded Sacrament, figures in at No. 4 and it is the album Morton feels is their most constant from entrance to again. And he is fairly smitten with Josh Wilbur’s manufacturing too.

The first album to crack the highest three is 2020’s self-titled effort, the primary to characteristic drummer Art Cruz. “It answered a lot of questions about the band. It answered any questions people might have about if we could survive a member change. It answered a lot of questions about whether or not we were still motivated about our songwriting. It answered a lot of questions about our ability to continue and our sustainability and our longevity as a band. And I think it does the same thing that Wrath does… and you can listen to this album top to bottom.”

“My ego wants to go against everybody and tell you why I’m right and you’re wrong, but I put Ashes of the Wake as the second best Lamb of God album,” declares Morton. It actually is the document the place the sound and identification of the band solidifies. It actually congeals on this document and it units the template in a really clear approach for what Lamb of God can be and what a Lamb of God document can be like. And that template in lots of methods continues to be in place.”

That leaves 2003’s Ashes of the Wake to take the No. 1 position in Morton’s ranking. “It sounds pressing — type of like scarily determined. And it sounds prefer it’s about to disintegrate or burst into flames at any minute. The entire album sounds prefer it’s on the level the place it is about to get engulfed. It’s a corny method to describe it,” the guitarist explains, seemingly still in disbelief at what the band managed to pull off on their sophomore album. He praised Randy Blythe’s genuinely pissed off vocal performance too.

To hear all of Morton’s comments on his ranking, watch the video below.

Look for Omens to drop on Oct. 7 and catch Lamb of God on tour now with Killswitch Engage (through Oct. 20) at these dates and get tickets here.

Mark Morton Ranks Every Lamb of God Album