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Lamb of God

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Thrash Metal
Metal Core

http://www.lamb-of-god.com
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/lambofgod
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lambofgod

17 апр 2025 :	MARK MORTON On Key To LAMB OF GOD's Longevity: We Have 'Always Been Unapologetically Ourselves And Sometimes To A Fault'
11 апр 2025 :	LAMB OF GOD's RANDY BLYTHE Says He Will Write A Horror Novel Next
13 мар 2025 :	RANDY BLYTHE: Fans Won't Have To Wait Five Years For New LAMB OF GOD Music
7 мар 2025 :
3 мар 2025 :	LAMB OF GOD's RANDY BLYTHE Is Once Again A 'Bestselling Author' With 'Just Beyond The Light' Book
2 мар 2025 :	RANDY BLYTHE On New LAMB OF GOD Music: 'No, We're Not In The Studio Right Now'
27 фев 2025 :	LAMB OF GOD's RANDY BLYTHE: GRAMMY AWARDS 'Mean F***ing Nothing To Me'
24 фев 2025 :	RANDY BLYTHE On LAMB OF GOD's Longevity: 'It's Because We Have Become Better Friends That We're Still Here'
21 фев 2025 :	RANDY BLYTHE Says Four Out Of Five Members Of LAMB OF GOD Are Sober Now: 'It's F***ing Great'
9 фев 2025 :	ART CRUZ: Joining LAMB OF GOD Was 'A Life-Changing Experience'
4 фев 2025 :	LAMB OF GOD's RANDY BLYTHE Says He Was 'Weeping Uncontrollably' At His 'First Sober Show' More Than 14 Years Ago
29 янв 2025 :	LAMB OF GOD's RANDY BLYTHE Opens Up About Religion: 'I Definitely Believe In A Higher Power'
24 янв 2025 :	LAMB OF GOD's RANDY BLYTHE Blasts 'Complete A**hole' ELON MUSK
22 янв 2025 :	LAMB OF GOD Shares Official 'Aftermovie' For 2024 Installment Of 'Headbangers Boat'
21 янв 2025 :	LAMB OF GOD's RANDY BLYTHE: 'We Put Out Seven Records On A Major Label, Sounding Like Us, Without Delivering A Single Hit'
18 янв 2025 :	LAMB OF GOD's ART CRUZ Celebrates Two Years Of Sobriety
15 янв 2025 :	LAMB OF GOD's RANDY BLYTHE On His Upcoming Book 'Just Beyond The Light': 'There Is A Lot Of Self-Searching In It'
21 дек 2024 :	LAMB OF GOD's JOHN CAMPBELL: 'It's Time To Start Working On New' Music
29 авг 2024 :	LAMB OF GOD Release Official Lyric Video For "Laid To Rest" (HEALTH Remix)
23 авг 2024 :	LAMB OF GOD's RANDY BLYTHE Picks METALLICA's 'Ride The Lightning' Over 'Master Of Puppets', Explains Why
21 авг 2024 :	LAMB OF GOD's RANDY BLYTHE On His Upcoming 'Just Beyond The Light' Book: 'There's A Whole Chapter About' My Grandmother
14 авг 2024 :	LAMB OF GOD's RANDY BLYTHE Blasts Use Of Cell Phones At Concerts: 'Put Your Fricking Phones Down And Be Present'
29 июл 2024 :	LAMB OF GOD Frontman RANDY BLYTHE's Second Book Gets Official Title, Release Date
25 июл 2024 :	Watch: LAMB OF GOD Performs Entire 'Ashes Of The Wake' Album In Houston
19 июл 2024 :	LAMB OF GOD's RANDY BLYTHE Is In The Process Of Editing His Second Book: 'It Will Be Coming Out Next Year'
18 июл 2024 :	LAMB OF GOD Debut "Laid To Rest" (HEALTH Remix); Visualizer

18 янв 2025

LAMB OF GOD's ART CRUZ Celebrates Two Years Of Sobriety

LAMB OF GOD drummer Art Cruz is celebrating the second anniversary of his getting sober.

Earlier today (Thursday, January 16),the 36-year-old musician took to his Instagram to write: "2 Years. #SOBER. I'm grateful I'm alive to share this milestone with you today. Not for me, but for anyone that is struggling with alcoholism, addiction, or life events that may lead you further down the dark bottom of a bottle. Today I pray for you, and for the ability to encourage and inspire your next step to recovery. Because it works.. if YOU work it."

A year ago, Cruz was asked by Drumeo what he would say was the "hardest part" about joining LAMB OF GOD — if it was "something technical, like learning the parts, or it was "dealing with fans who have opinions of the old band configuration." He said: "It's a combination of both. I was so confident with my playing, and not in an egotistical way. I was just very confident with where I was on my skill level. I had been touring for a long time in the trenches, man — from local bands to selling merchandise for bands to being a driver to just being the guy that 'let me help' kind of thing to playing in bands and sleeping on floors and doing all that good stuff. But it wasn't really that — it was wasn't the playing; I was confident enough with my playing. It was a challenge with the fans. It's a big deal. And that goes for anybody. You're [former METALLICA bassist] Jason Newsted, you're [ex-METALLICA bassist] Robert Trujillo; it's crazy how they went back to back to convince fans. And you don't think about that until it's a reality, and you're getting blown up on social media and you're experiencing it. And those are probably the most challenging parts. But with a band and a brotherhood that I have, they've walked me, literally — pun intended — walked me through hell and helped to see me on the other side, so I don't have to really pay attention to that stuff anymore. And I don't. I'm here to inspire. That is my only goal in this world, is to show you where I came from — my vulnerabilities, my weaknesses, and show you how I grow from that and do what I can to be in this position. And thankfully I'm in a better place than I used to be before. It was hard to get through that stuff, man. But thankfully, it's a lot easier to avoid it. Yeah, I just don't go on [social media]. It's fun."

In June 2023, Cruz was asked, as part of Jonathan Montenegro's "My 3 Questions To" series, to name his top three drummers of all time. He responded: "It's a tough one. Honestly, I always have to say my first inspiration — I just got finished, actually, watching a video of Woodstock — [Carlos] Santana. He's not a drummer. However, to me, the entire entity of Santana and his music is very percussion backed — it's very percussion. So, as a kid, that's what I first listened to, it's what I first saw, it's what I first was around my entire childhood. So that's what got me into drums. So I stuck with that. So Santana — I have to classify him as one of my favorite drummers. Weird, but it's the truth.

"After that, I would have to say most definitely Mike Portnoy [DREAM THEATER]," he continued. "A huge part of my career. Good friend now — thank God. He influenced me to really think outside the box and get creative and have that Portnoy factor in my playing. And I'm sure, if you are a drummer, you can hear that in my playing.

"And then my third… That's really hard, man — top three's hard. But I will probably have to say… David Garibaldi, the drummer from TOWER OF POWER. I'm a very funky dude," Cruz added.

"Notice how not all these guys are metal, or metal at all, but those are the guys that influenced me early.

"To give you some bonus fours and fives — Dave Lombardo [SLAYER] and Chris Adler [LAMB OF GOD]. And a bonus six — Joey Jordison [SLIPKNOT]."

In a 2022 interview with Finland's Chaoszine, LAMB OF GOD guitarist Mark Morton was asked if Cruz, who has been the band's drummer of the past seven years, was more involved in the songwriting process on LAMB OF GOD's latest album, "Omens", than he was on 2020's self-titled effort. He responded: "I think so. Yeah, I'd say so. Not that he wasn't involved in the first one — he was very involved in the first one — but I think his confidence was up. And I think psychologically, everyone, especially him, was ready to have a bigger impact sonically on the record and to have more personality in the drums rather than… I think on the last album, the self-titled album, he played phenomenally but he stuck very close to traditional LAMB OF GOD movements, and on this album he stretched out quite a bit."

Morton continued: "I think it's about finding a balance about staying true to the historic sound of the band and how the band has sounded; you don't wanna come in sounding radically different. But I think we're all ready, and have been ready, to allow him to grow within the context of LAMB OF GOD, and he's done that for sure."

Cruz filled in for original LAMB OF GOD drummer Chris Adler on several of the band's tours before being named Adler's official replacement in July 2019.

Art spoke about his contributions to "Omens" — which arrived in October 2022 via Epic Records — during an appearance in June 2022 on "The Garza Podcast", hosted by SUICIDE SILENCE guitarist Chris Garza. "The first, self-titled one we did, it was great, man — we wrote some great songs," he said, referring to 2020's "Lamb Of God", which marked his recording debut with LAMB OF GOD. "But I was still learning their vibe. I was green to that level of… Those guys had been doing it for 28, 29 years — almost 30 years — and I'm the new guy, a young kid coming in. You have to go through the trenches in every which way. And that first album was a very secure, safe way for all of us to just, 'Here's the tunes. Let's figure it out. Learn how we work.' And this one that's coming out, 'Omens', they really let me spread my wings and they really let me play me — they let me be me.

"I'm always inspired by LAMB, and LAMB is a signature sound," he continued. "LAMB OF GOD, to me, is that sound as a unit. It's a unit — it's not one individual. It's Randy [Blythe, vocals], it's Mark [Morton, guitar], it's Willie [Adler, guitar], it's John [Campbell, bass], it's Chris. That's, to me, what LAMB OF GOD was. So I'm not far off from that. That's what inspired me to be listening to metal and shit. It's my favorite metal band of all time. So to take that inspiration and then become my own person, my own player, from WINDS OF PLAGUE to AZUSA to my first band ENTHRAL to PRONG, to finally come to this point, and this is the album. It's all of those bands, it's all of those struggles, all of those trenches, all of those challenges, all of those tours — this is the album that I was able to really… And then the last LAMB OF GOD album, that is what built me to be to this 'Omens' album, for real. And we're just getting started, man — we're so just getting started. And I'm ready. And I'm mentally in a better place to do that, and I'm ready to do it. And the band is, they're my brothers."

The band tracked "Omens" with longtime collaborator Josh Wilbur (KORN, MEGADETH) live in the room together at Henson Recording Studios (formerly A&M Studios) in Los Angeles, California, a location that birthed classics from THE DOORS, PINK FLOYD, RAMONES and SOUNDGARDEN, among others.

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18 янв 2025

Вашингтон Ирвинг

2 года не пить - ерунда
Попробуй 2 года не передергивать, тогда поговорим

18 янв 2025

Dem0niac

Вашингтон Ирвинг, Следующая новость: барабанщик Lamb of God два года не берет в руки крепкого

18 янв 2025

WahrandPhain

Вашингтон Ирвинг, в армии 2 года не дрочили и не ебались, никто не умер. Физнагрузки творят чудеса с мужским организмом.

19 янв 2025

ElectricRetard

WahrandPhain, Что у вас там за физнагрузки были? Я так наоборот после любой физухи хочу "любви" в пять раз больше чем до этого.

20 янв 2025

WahrandPhain

ElectricRetard, ну ты сходи, побегай и помаршируй, я на тебя посмотрю, как ты любви захочешь, после задрочки строевой и бесконечных кроссов и спортивных праздников.

18 янв 2025

Nepalcev

Вашингтон Ирвинг, А ты кремень!!!))

18 янв 2025

SnakeZ

Вот интересно - практически все бросившие пить начинают нести - спасибо богу, иисус меня любит и тд. Неужели все реабилитационные центры работают на этом якоре? По другому никак мозги не промыть?

18 янв 2025

Вашингтон Ирвинг

SnakeZ, Вроде бы зависимости неизличимы, разрушительную меняют на безопасную

18 янв 2025

WahrandPhain

Вашингтон Ирвинг, чушь полнейшая, зависимости они на то и зависимости, что можно принимать мир без них. Прекратил употребление уже очень давно, и без всякого замещения.

18 янв 2025

Dem0niac

WahrandPhain, "без всякого замещения"
ахахахахахахахахахахахаха

19 янв 2025

Damien

WahrandPhain, Доктор запретил? (Так часто бывает.)

18 янв 2025

Nepalcev

SnakeZ, "There are no atheists in foxholes"

18 янв 2025

WahrandPhain

SnakeZ, нуууу, во-первых, не все бросившие проходят через рехабы, и не все бросившие принимают исуса или бога, это ты как-то грубо обобщил.

а вялого?

Отличный тост!

Rutger, Ну. за трезвость!)

19 янв 2025

Damien

Rocky Wolfsson, Упёртые трезвенники - самые отвратительные и безнадёжные в плане традиционного человеческого общения обитатели планеты Земля - неоднократно проверено на личном опыте контактирования с подобными субъектами (по большей части мужского пола). Они, узнав, что собеседник "употребляет", нередко кардинально меняются в лице, начинают, как припадочные, учащённо дышать и пучить зенки, а затем либо под надуманными предлогами куда-то незаметно съёбывают (обычно навсегда), либо, что еще хуже, пускаются в нудные мерзкие нравоучения о пользе полного отказа от алкоголя - и выражения лиц у них при этом, как правило, злобно-осатанелые настолько, насколько не увидишь даже ни в каком киноблокбастере типа "Адвоката дьявола" на ликах бесов в человеческом обличье.

19 янв 2025

Rocky Wolfsson

Damien, я сам трезвенник. Но не настолько упёрт, чтоб навязывать другим... Мне в принципе без разницы, что человек пьёт и в каком объёме. Главное, чтоб был приятен в общении. Другое дело, когда в компании оказываешься и отказываешься от выпивки, на тебя начинают косо смотреть...

19 янв 2025

Damien

Rocky Wolfsson, Это, с какой стороны ни посмотри, обычно довольно тонкий и щепетильный вопрос.
У меня есть, к примеру, одна давняя, довольно привлекательная знакомая россиянка "на районе", которая, будучи вполне профессионально успешной и состоятельной матерью двоих детей, любит время от времени выпить водки в компании. И вот если кто-нибудь вокруг под тем или иным предлогом отказывается пить с ней водку (трезвенник для нее, кстати, - уважительная причина,; "не вопрос", как она сама говорит), она понимающие кивает, но потом к такому человеку не то чтобы эмоционально охладевает, но в дальнейшем явно не выражает в отношении него дружеской теплоты.
Другой пример - одна моя знакомая американка, тоже далеко не нищенка, для которой изначально проблем с компанейскими возлияниями не существует вовсе. - исключительно доброжелательный, в чем-то даже по-детски наивный и предельно открытый человек. Однако и ее, разумеется, лучше из себя не выводить - даже во время попоек.

19 янв 2025

Dem0niac

Damien, Господи, какой же ты, всё-таки, долбоёб…
Можешь не отвечать, сраться с тобой мне неохота.