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Lamb of God have released a studio version of Black Sabbath‘s “Children of the Grave,” the cover they performed live at Sabbath’s Back to the Beginning concert on Saturday (July 5th).

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“Lamb of God being invited to perform with Black Sabbath at their final show is one of the greatest honors of our career,” stated lead guitarist Mark Morton in a press release. “As an offering to the celebration, we’ve recorded our take on their classic ‘Children of the Grave,’ a protest song with lyrics that are as relevant today as they were in 1971 when the original was released.”

Stream the cover of “Children of the Grave” below, and see where Lamb of God’s Ashes of the Wake landed on Consequence‘s new list of the 75 Best Metal Albums of All Time.

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Just hours after Lamb of God took the stage at Ozzy Osbourne’s Back to the Beginning farewell concert — where they covered Black Sabbath’s “Children of the Grave” — the band has released a studio version of the Master of Reality track.

“Lamb of God being invited to perform with Black Sabbath at their final show is one of the greatest honors of our career,” Lamb of God lead guitarist Mark Morton said in a statement. “As an offering to the celebration, we’ve recorded our take on their classic ‘Children of the Grave,...

Lamb of God guitarist Mark Morton has announced a new solo album, Without the Pain, arriving April 11th.

Morton also offered up the new single “Brother,” a collaboration with outlaw country singer Cody Jinks and songwriter/country artist Travis Denning.

The first half of the track is mostly acoustic, Morton’s strums providing a perfect backdrop for Jinks’ distinctive twang. The song eventually goes electric as it builds to a crescendo, Morton picking up his trusty axe to lay down some ripping leads.

“On a long bus ride, somewhere in the middle of a Lamb of God tour, I scribbled some lyrics down in my notebook,” said Morton. “Sometime after, having paired them with a simple chord progression, I presented my idea to Cody Jinks and Travis Denning during a writing session in Nashville. Three hours later, we walked out with ‘Brother.'”

He continued: “‘Brother’ is a deeply personal...

Lamb of God announced the initial lineup of the 2025 Headbangers Boat in early November, just as the 2024 edition of the floating metal festival returned to port. Now, they’ve unveiled the full lineup.

The initial 2025 lineup included Clutch, Obituary, DevilDriver, Kublai Khan TX, Fear Factory, The Black Dahlia Murder, Crowbar, Eighteen Visions, and Brat. On Tuesday (December 17th), Lamb of God revealed the full lineup by adding Power Trip, The Exploited, Nekrogoblikon, Gideon, Walls of Jericho, and Category 7 to the bill.

The 2025 edition will see the Norwegian Jewel sailing from Miami on October 31st, 2025, stopping at Cozumel, Mexico, and returning on November 4th.

As of this posting, the cabins are 90% sold, with all sales taking place exclusively through the official Headbangers Boat website.

In addition to the aforementioned acts, Lamb of God guitarist Mark Morton will perform a tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd with solo band. The cruise will also feature...

Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe is set to publish his second book, Just Beyond the Light: Making Peace with the Wars Inside Our Head, on Feb. 18, 2025.

Just Beyond the Light (available to pre-order now) will mix bits of memoir and philosophical and artistic musings. Blythe described it in a statement as a “tight, concise roadmap of how I have attempted to maintain what I believe to be a proper perspective in life, even during difficult times.”

Blythe wrote about his childhood in the South, friends he’s lost, what...

Lamb of God have released a remix of their song “Laid to Rest” by Health, an inclusion on the upcoming Ashes of the Wake 20th Anniversary Edition, out August 30th.

The remix arrives a day before Lamb of God kick off their co-headlining tour with Mastodon on Friday (July 19th) in Grand Prairie, Texas (get tickets here). The “Ashes of Leviathan Tour” will see Lamb of God playing Ashes of the Wake in full and Mastodon performing Leviathan in its entirety. Notably, Slayer guitarist Kerry King and his solo band will provide direct support.

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Meanwhile, the remix of “Laid to Rest” re-imagines Lamb of God as an industrial metal band. Health pull off a crafty edit of the original stems, melding the guitars into a punchy techno beat and leaving Randy Blythe’s vocals isolated on top.

“When we were discussing ideas for the...

Metal favorites Lamb of God have announced the arrival of their next album, Omens, Oct. 7 via Epic Records.

The new album was produced by the band’s longtime collaborator Josh Wilbur, and it will follow Lamb of God’s 2020 self-titled effort. The album’s first single, “Nevermore,” will be released this Friday, June 10.

Lamb of God recorded Omens at Henson Recording Studios in Los Angeles, a studio that’s also been used by the likes of the Doors, Pink Floyd, the Ramones, and Soundgarden. Lamb of God also cut the record live-to-tape,...

When Lamb of God decided to cover “Wake Up Dead,” the blistering thrash odyssey their tourmates Megadeth released in 1986, they asked themselves how they could make it bigger. So they decided just to ask Megadeth to record it with them. Their new recording of the song features the five members of Lamb of God with additional vocals and guitar parts by Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine and cameos by the rest of his band.

Following a trek last year that they called the Metal Tour of the Year, the two bands...

Two of the hard-rock and metal’s loudest musicians, Halestorm frontwoman Lzzy Hale and Lamb of God guitarist Mark Morton, have joined forces for what may be the gentlest song they’ve ever recorded, an acoustic cover of the Black Crowes’ “She Talks to Angels.” The pair previously cut a version of the song for Morton’s solo EP, Ether, which came out over the summer, but they decided to reprise it for Hale’s Raise Your Horns YouTube show.

Hale’s husky voice suits the song well, and when she belts out,...

With yet another Friday the 13th upon us, it’s high time to dig into a now fairly-outmoded Hollywood practice, the synergistic soundtrack album, as it pertains to Camp Blood’s least favorite son. Today, we celebrate the Friday The 13th franchise by making a playlist of its top soundtrack slices.

As a series, Friday The 13th has run the musical gamut, kicking off at the tail end of disco (as the opening theme music of Friday The 13th Part III can attest), peaking during the hair metal ’80s, and then quite thoroughly exploring a renaissance in metal at the start of the 21st century.

Is this list solely a product of the personal taste of this horror and metal fan? Of course. As such, you’ll notice that Hot Ice does not make the cut. Several of the top entries in this list did not even occupy any pre-end credits screen time,...

With nowhere to play a live gig during social distancing, the members of Lamb of God stayed home to perform a couple of songs off their recently released, self-titled eighth album.

In a video that showcases each of the band’s five members raging out at home, the group performs Lamb of God’s “Checkmate” and “New Colossal Hate,” and they also whipped out one of their calling cards, “Laid to Rest,” which appeared on their major-label debut, Ashes of the Wake.

After drummer Art Cruz counts them in, guitarists...

Alt-rock stalwart Mark Lanegan unveiled a chilling new song, “Bleed All Over,” from his upcoming album, Straight Songs of Sorrow, set to arrive May 8th.

The track boasts an icy post-punk edge thanks to the tight skip of the drums, the queasy synth trails during the verse and rubbery plunks during the hook. Anchoring the song with some semblance of warmth, though, is the constant strum of an acoustic guitar and Lanegan’s resonant vocals as he pleads, “Baby, baby, baby don’t you say it’s over/Now that...

Less than a year after Mark Lanegan released his 2019 LP, Something’s Knocking, the singer-songwriter returns with a new album he was inspired to record while writing his upcoming memoir.

Straight Songs of Sorrow arrives May 8th, just over a week after Lanegan’s memoir, Sing Backwards and Weep, hits shelves on April 28th. On Wednesday, Lanegan shared the companion album’s first song, “Skeleton Key,” a seven-minute track that recalls Lanegan’s bluesy Nineties solo output.

“Writing the book, I didn’t get catharsis,” Lanegan said of the memoir...

Lamb of God return from a five-year hiatus with “Checkmate,” the first single from the metal group’s upcoming self-titled album.

“‘Checkmate’ brings together all the components of the Lamb of God sound that we’ve been developing over the last two decades, but with the ambition and ferocity that comes with the start of a new chapter for our band,” guitarist Mark Morton said in a statement. “Re-energized and reignited, this is Lamb of God 2020. We’ve never been more excited.”

“Watch the gears grind off their teeth/The...