LAMB OF GOD drummer Chris Adler is featured in a new interview with DRUM! Magazine. An excerpt from the story, originally published in the March 2012 issue of the magazine, is available below:

Adler: “It’s not lost on me that when we started this, the drums were done in ten hours. I’m still ready to knock it all out in one day, but our producer insists that you do two a day and go home and refresh. The studio is a luxury for me (now). It makes for more creativity on the spot. If anything’s different than previous records, it’s that. When you get to the studio, you have to perform perfectly right away. There’s no time for overdubs. Get it right, or it will live on the recording. This is the first time that I came in and realized that I don’t have to kill myself that hard — I know 99 percent of what I’m going to do, but I can improve a fill along the way.”

Call it a perk of being on your seventh album in 13 years. Under the low lights of Spin Music Studios, Adler particularly relished the idea incubation — that creative give-and-take between producer and musician — that the extra studio time afforded him. Whether through headphones or on Spin’s plush, overstuffed tan leather couches, Adler embraced the experience as a time to meditate on his chops.

“It’s fun for me to not come into the studio so immediately focused on every part. You’re open to entirely new things. If you have time in the studio and you’re not in love with everything in the song, that’s a really good place to be in.”

The song, of course, is everything to Adler now. Like many young metal drummers, Adler was swept up in the beats-per-minute arms race early in his career, playing ever faster and more complex in a subconscious effort to demonstrate supremacy. Now, at age 39 and well past the point where he needs to prove himself to his peers, Adler has developed a laser-like focus on serving the music — not the ego.

“These are guys that oftentimes flow in and out of bands and are on 20 different albums by the end of their careers. This has been my only project ever playing drums. When you’re only in one project, that project is very much ego-driven for everyone in the band. I’ve really tried to get rid of that and step back and be objective and understand that it’s not about you or the capabilities of the band, but what is best for the song and the album. That’s played a big role in my progression as a player in the recording process of this record.”

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Lamb Of God have released the first trailer for their projected 2013 feature film, As The Palaces Burn. The film, directed by award winning documentary filmmaker Don Argott and produced by 9.14 Pictures (Last Days Here, Art of the Steal, Rock School), examines the impact that music and particularly heavy metal music has made on people around the globe as they live in a 21st century world full of economic uncertainty, political unrest, social injustice, and under a constant fear of war and violence. Filming has taken place to date in Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, India, and Israel. Filming in the United States will take place over the summer months.

Embedded in the trailer is the video for the band’s second single from the Resolution CD, ‘Desolation’. The video was shot at shows in South America and Mexico and is the follow up to the animated video for the track ‘Ghost Walking’. Check it out below:

Pro-shot footage of Lamb Of God performing at the Rock Am Ring festival in Nürburgring, Germany on June 1st is now online. Check it out below:

As previously announced, this summer Lamb Of God and DETHKLOK will join forces for a 34-show North American tour kicking off on August 1st in Seattle, WA. The bands will shred their way through cities throughout in the US and Canada ending September 15th in San Francisco, CA. Joining the co-headliners at each stop along the tour will be special guest GOJIRA. Tickets went on sale Friday, May 18th.

Tour dates are as follows:

August

1 - WaMu Theater - Seattle, WA
2 - Queen Elizabeth Theater - Vancouver, BC
4 - Big 4 - Calgary, AB
5 - Shaw Conference Centre - Edmonton, AB
7 - Convention Centre - Winnipeg, MB
9 - Eagles Ballroom - Milwaukee, WI
10 - LC Pavilion - Columbus, OH
11 - Heavy TO - Toronto, ON
12 - Heavy MTL - Montreal, QC
14 - Delta Plex - Grand Rapids, MI
15 - Family Arena - St. Louis, MO
19 - Midland Theater - Kansas City, MO
21 - Congress Ballroom - Chicago, IL
22 - Compuware Arena - Detroit, MI
23 - Stage AE - Pittsburgh, PA
24 - Time Warner Cable Uptown Amphitheater - Charlotte, NC
25 - Constant Convocation Center - Norfolk, VA
26 - Pier 6 Pavilion - Baltimore, MD
29 - Roseland Ballroom - New York, NY
30 - Tsongas Arena - Lowell, MA
31 - Toyota Presents Oakdale Theater - Wallingford, CT

September

1 - Outside at the Electric Factory - Philadelphia, PA
2 - Asbury Park Convention Hall - Asbury Park, NJ
4 - Hard Rock Live - Orlando, FL
5 - Tabernacle - Atlanta, GA
7 - Bayou Music Center - Houston, TX
8 - Sunken Garden - San Antonio, TX
9 - Verizon Wireless Theater - Dallas, TX
11 - The Fillmore - Denver, CO
13 - Comerica Theater - Phoenix, AZ
14 - Gibson Amphitheater - Los Angeles, CA
15 - Bill Graham Civic - San Francisco, CA