LAMB OF GOD drummer Chris Adler is featured in a new interview with Ultimate-Guitar.com. An excerpt is available below:

UG: In your book (The Making of New American Gospel) for the song 'Letter to the Unborn', you talk about playing 16th notes at 200+ bpm. Obviously that was challenging as a player but is faster always better?

Adler: "No! [laughs] In fact it’s an endless endeavor in frustration to only follow that. No, I think for me that any day of the week, style and groove are far more important than speed. I think at the time I was focused on that like a lot of guys get wrapped up in that whole world of speed and lose the flavor and the love in the music. It’s hard for me to listen back to that album and think there was any flavor or love because I was so aggressive and I was so trying to be the fastest and hit the hardest and I was caught in that race. But as I go back through the albums now, I can find where I really started to understand my place and really started to feel good about what I did."

UG: What is important to you now as a drummer?

Adler: "Now it’s understanding and feeling good about my style and continuing to define that and trying to be the best drummer I can for the band."

UG: One of the poignant moments in The Making of New American Gospel was when you wrote, “I hit a point in 2006 where I felt like I was stagnating.” Can you address that in a little more detail?

Adler: "It was right after Sacrament; there was such a huge evolution in my playing from the Palaces record to the Ashes Of The Wake record, which were the two prior to Sacrament. There was such a huge growth there where I went from kind of ego idea of a song to working with the band better. But there wasn’t that same kind of evolution into Sacrament. I think Ashes Of The Wake and Sacrament, the drumming while unique, interesting and very much defined my style, I don’t think there’s a whole lot different about the two the two records in my playing on them. I think it’s good and there’s nothing wrong with it; I didn’t feel that same evolution that I had from the prior record. I felt like there should have been and I didn’t know why. I felt like playing those songs maybe I was getting too old or I didn’t have the right inspiration or I was listening to the wrong music. But I felt like I was falling back on the same bag of tricks and I didn’t know how to get out of the box that I had put myself in."

Go to this location for the complete interview.