History Music / LambOfGod

* DeathMetal: Some of their [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_the_Priest_%28album%29 early]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_American_Gospel albums]] qualifies as death metal, if Website/TheOtherWiki is to be believed.

* SingingVoiceDissonance: Even by metal standards, Randy, to both his singing and his look. His high-pitched youthful-sounding speaking voice contrasts jarringly with both his deep growls ''and'' older gaunt appearance.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Bassist John Campbell looks to be somewhere in his mid-early 60's because of his distinctive white hair. He is only 50. Averted with Randy, who looks to be in his early fifties at times. He is 51.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Some consider them the Modern Day Music/{{Pantera}}.

* WalkingTheEarth: What ultimately led to Randy helping form the band. After several failed bands and many dead-end, backbreaking jobs, Randy hit a breaking point around his mid-twenties and went freight-hopping across the US as a soul-searching journey. When he got back to Richmond, he really wasn't feeling any better about his life, but Abe Spear (who he had previously played in a band with) had started a promising new band and needed a vocalist, and Randy joined just to see where it went.

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* DeathMetal: Some of their [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_the_Priest_%28album%29 early]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_American_Gospel albums]] qualifies as death metal, if Wiki/TheOtherWiki is to be believed.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Bassist John Campbell looks to be somewhere in his mid-early 60's because of his distinctive white hair. He is only 49. Averted with Randy, who looks to be in his early fifties at times. He is 51.

* NotChristianRock: While the band's name would lead an unsuspecting listener to believe they're Christian, they most certainly aren't and several of their songs are actually very critical of religion. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqdZpxkzNvc The video for "Redneck"]] screws with this when a mother asks the band to play a child's birthday party. [[HilarityEnsues Guess what happens...]]

** ''New American Gospel'', while their first official release as Lamb of God, is still spiritually a Burn the Priest album in many ways, with a significantly less technical and more hardcore and sludge metal-inspired sound than the thrash-based sound that they settled on with ''As the Palaces Burn''.

* {{Expy}}: The video for "Redneck" is similar to Music/{{Meshuggah}}'s video for "New Millennium Cyanide Christ," which featured the band sitting around on their bus air-instrumenting(even the drummer!) and Jens Kidman screaming into a pen instead of a microphone. [=LoG=] openly worships Meshuggah, but they took it UpToEleven in their version by being booked to play a little girl's birthday party and having strippers and beer on the bus.

** ''New American Gospel'' has this problem too even though it's their actual second album but first as Lamb Of God.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Bassist John Campbell looks to be somewhere in his mid-early 60's because of his distinctive white hair. He is only 49. Averted with Randy, who looks to be in his early fifties at times. He is 50.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: ''The Duke'' EP saw them stray from their [[GrooveMetal Groove Metal]]/{{Metalcore}}/MelodicDeathMetal hybrid sound to AlternativeMetal on the title track, complete with 85% clean singing. The rest of the tracks are of their usual affair, however.

* CallBack: "Ghost Walking."

** "Desolation" Is the title of the previous track on the album.

** The album ''VII: Sturm und Drang'' might take this a step further with more grisly lyrics inspired by Randy's 2012 imprisonment in the Czech Republic.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Bassist John Campbell looks to be somewhere in his mid-early 60's because of his distinctive white hair. He is only 48. Averted with Randy, who looks to be in his early fifties at times. He is 50.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Bassist John Campbell looks to be somewhere in his mid-early 60's because of his distinctive white hair. He is only 48. Randy looks to be in his early fifties at times. He's only 49.