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“WE SWING HARDER BY STAYING ON THE ONE STRING”

If there’s one word that summarises the Lamb Of God approach to guitar, it’s groove. The Virginian metal quintet know how to write riffs that feel heavy enough to have their own orbit, with all kinds of intricate pushes and pulls contributing to the unrelenting attitude and neck-thickening swagger. According to guitarists Mark Morton and Willie Adler, it’s their contrasting styles and combined dynamic that creates much of the group’s signature sound.

You seem to prefer stretching out riffs onto the lowest string, rather than using the others. That’s a big factor in your sound...

: Somewhere along the way we figured out that we could swing harder at

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