如果你见过神的羔羊live – or watched an errant YouTube clip – you’ll know that威利·阿德勒（Willie Adler）在所有金属中具有最僵硬的拾取手。他的食指弯曲在他的plectrum周围，以至于看起来已经被抢了一半。他的剩余数字刻有僵硬的位置。他的肘部处于接近恒定的九十度。这是一项重型音乐以前或之后从未见过的技术 - 所以，第二Guitar.com接受采访，我们必须问他他妈的怎么了。
“我敢肯定，这很快就会给我关节炎，”阿德勒说，从他在弗吉尼亚州里士满的家中笑了。“相信你，如果我能以其他任何方式这样做，我的手放松了，那我会的。”
当阿德勒（Adler）第一次拿起吉他时，他只上了几堂课，然后才完全将重点放在金属上，这意味着他从未收到过很多指导。他说：“这一切都源于舒适性和我想通过吉他说话的方式，而我完成的方式正在操纵我的右手进入它的成长方式。这是一个非常自然的不自然进展。”
他的技术看起来可能很奇怪，但您无法争论结果。自从吉他手于1999年加入乐队并从伯恩牧师中催化了他们的名字，上帝的羔羊已经涌入了美国最强大的极端金属力量。旁边活结，，，，Machine Headand终极杀戮乐团，，，，they co-helmed the New Wave of American Heavy Metal. Between 2006 and 2015, everything they released cracked the Top 10 of the广告牌album chart. They’ve also accrued five Grammy nominations and gigged with every one from杀手到Metallica。
从音乐上讲，自从它们爆炸到主流中以来，上帝的羔羊几乎一无所有。当您做得如此良好时，为什么需要？主唱兰迪·布莱斯（Randy Blythe）一直在为布什政府和伊拉克战争而闻名于2004年的伊拉克战争中，一直咆哮着最公开的政治歌词Ashes of the Wake。乐队的同名2020专辑从臀部拍摄，从军事工业综合体到充其量的无动于衷的美国医疗保健系统。
Lamb’s drumming – first by co-founder and Willie’s brother Chris Adler, then, since 2019, Art Cruz – has always simultaneously been effortlessly original. Meanwhile, Willie and fellow guitarist马克·莫顿长期以来一直喜欢同样的即兴演奏：在低位的舞蹈中快速舞蹈。
“I like the tonality of the low string: it just seems heavier to me,” says Willie. “And I was always fascinated by the guys who could do the super-techy riffs. I love [Megadeth的1990 album]和平生锈and what马蒂[弗里德曼]在那张唱片上做到了。他的独奏和即兴演奏真是令人难以置信。我也一直倾向于Atonal Slayer型即兴即兴演奏，那里有很多很小的人，它不一定符合一种理论或另一种理论。”
经过数十年的坚持使用相同的枪支，上帝的羔羊正在加深他们的新专辑中的武器库Omens。他们上次听到这种勇敢的首次亮相。铅单人和开瓶器从来没有从Off发出的信号表明，这种奇怪的古怪以这种方式出现了，因为它用锯齿状的尖叫声打断了自己的滚动即兴即兴。
当我们提起它时，阿德勒笑了。“那是马克在谈论写新唱片时给我发给我的首批歌曲之一，我当时想，‘这是什么？！’这听起来对我来说是如此之好，如此之糟。这让我想起了旧的A曾经失去即兴演奏的生活：这是超级杂乱无章的，那些刺穿，刺伤和弦的人就是那个即兴演奏的原因。他们制作了那首歌，因为它从它们开始，然后回到他们身边。对我来说，那首歌就像走过庇护所一样。”
别处，拒绝机制goes full hardcore-punk mode, chords scurrying over the most simple but primal of drum beats. That’s beforeSeptember SongendsOmenson its most evolutionary note. A barrage of clean hammer-ons and pull-offs commence the track with an aggressive blues lick, which naturally escalates to Lamb of God’s archetypal territory of riffs and roars – albeit backed by classical strings. One last marathon of tapping builds to the album’s climax. It’s among Lamb of God’s most adventurous, bombastic and brilliant moments.
“It unfolded in such a way that, when I wrote the demo for that song, it sounded nothing like where it ended up,” Adler explains. “Josh [Wilbur,Omens’ producer] had the idea of the symphonic parts and, at first, I was kind of unsure: it sounded like everything was fighting each other. I was just hearing it the way I heard it in my demo; I had to get my head out of that space and realise it had become a different song.”
那为什么现在呢？上帝的羔羊已经成为上帝的羔羊已有23年了，自从他们首次亮相以来，他们一直在推动自己的行为VII: Sturm und Drang。According to Adler, it’s because they all recorded in the same place for a change.
以前，录制上帝的羔羊是一个孤立的过程。和......说话Loudwire2015年，，，，Blythe described all five members in the studio together as a “too many cooks” scenario. “You get half a line out and they’re like, ‘Wait, wait, wait, wait!’ I don’t go there when they’re tracking drums and, before they’re halfway through the first song, say, ‘You missed something! You screwed something up!’ You gotta let me get my groove on. I gotta do my thing and flow.”
七年后，他显然柔和了自己的立场。Willie says: “The idea [of recording together] was presented to us and we were like, ‘Why not?’” Knowing that the collaboration would continue when they started recording, Lamb of God had the freedom to enter the studio with incomplete ideas.
“There were songs that we had been working on in pre-production where we didn’t know how they were going to take shape,” the guitarist continues. “There were moments within songs, particularlySeptember Song，，，，that we didn’t know how we were going to flesh out. We could not only sit together but, with the benefit of a studio, we could actually hear what everybody else wants.”
阿德勒追踪Omensusing a plethora of特别是guitars, including two USA models, his signature model and anotherEvertune-equipped model tuned to E. Unsurprisingly, he feels a strong sense of loyalty to the Japanese brand. “I remember the day when I fell in love with them: when the first one showed up at my house. It just felt natural. The fretboard, the way it played – everything just felt super-smooth. I can’t necessarily put it into anything tangible but that was just the way it felt – it felt right.”
上帝的羔羊已经在巡回宣传专辑。前一周Guitar.com’s talk with Willie, the band headlined Bloodstock Festival in Derbyshire to 15,000 people. Right now though, the guitarist is at home, with Vio-lence and former Machine Head player菲尔·德米梅尔（Phil Demmel）在欧洲约会上为他填补。
“我想念我的家伙，”阿德勒说。“很难想到他们在舞台上，而我没有和他们一起上台。但是与此同时，这只是我必须做的事情。我非常感谢Phil能够填补。”
关于威利为什么缺少表演的猜测。在接受采访knac.com，，，，Vio-lence singer Sean Killian said Demmel was touring with Lamb of God because “a couple of the guys in the band are not down with doing the vaxx”. As much as we’d have liked to, Lamb of God’s representatives forbade us from asking Willie why he’s not on the road right now.
取而代之的是，我们问当上帝的羔羊于12月回到欧洲时，我们是否会看到他，当时乐队与克里特尔（Kreator）的动乱之旅成为了谋杀案，而gatecreeper则是支持的。“我不确定，”他回答。“我仍然必须弄清楚。”
威利（Willie）仔细考虑了一切，并希望找到一条让他快乐地回到道路的道路，但他至少可以为20多年的上帝兰姆（Lamb）创造的最界限的专辑而感到自豪。他说：“上帝对我的羔羊是一支乐队，不一定会偏离它的根源，但会让你保持脚趾。”“最大的事情Omensis to stay Lamb of God but stay fresh. I want kids to be like, ‘Damn, they did it again!’”
Omensis out on 7th October viaRoadrunner。神的羔羊到ur the UK with Kreator, Thy Art Is Murder and Gatecreeper in December.