LAMB OF GOD frontman Randy Blythe is featured in a new interview with Australia's FasterLouder.com. An excerpt is available below.

Q: Your new album Wrath is out February 24th, and John Campbell [bassist for Lamb of God] said that the album is "thematically” similar to Sacrament, and that it’s more melodic. Listening to Contractor and Set To Fail; it has some similarities to previous Lamb of God albums. Is that what you were aiming for?

Blythe: "To be completely contrary, I don’t think it’s thematically similar. But of course, I’m coming from the point of view of the guy who writes the lyrics. He’s talking about the music. Of course it’s similar, ‘cause it’s Lamb Of God. But I don’t think that really thematically it’s that similar at all. Musically or lyrically I definitely wasn’t aiming to do the same things. I like doing different things every time."

Q Lyrically, on Sacrament you’ve said you struggled with it; coming up with new material. How was the writing process for Wrath?

Blythe: "It was a lot easier. This record, there’s personal stuff but there’s more social commentary, more political stuff. It was a lot easier on me, much more methodic and focused writing. I had my man cave actually built out in the backyard. And every day I came out here and worked very methodically and meticulously on the lyrics, instead of kind of gutting them out as I did on the last record.

You know, when we were doing Sacrament I was under a lot of stress with personal shit in my life. Also that record we made a very conscious decision to make a very personal record. So everything was coming from within; we never write happy music, I guess. It was all looking at the negative aspects of my own personality at times. Not all the songs are about me, but there was a lot of introspection on the record and that can be hard.

I think it’s good, not just for dudes with bands, but I think it’s good for everyone to think about their faults, their character defects and to try and work on them; it improves you as a person. I get psychically very immersed in what I’m writing, so if I’m writing about bad shit that’s within my life, that’s what I think about for months on end."

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