LAMB OF GOD Drummer Talks About GRAMMY AWARDS, FAMILY VALUES Tour Rumors

Brandon Weiss of The Triangle Online recently conducted an interview with LAMB OF GOD drummer Chris Adler. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

On hard work being the only reason for the band's success:

"We've been doing it for 13 years. For the first seven or eight years we played basements and parties for ten dollars and spaghetti. Then we came up into the bar scene, the club scene, the theater scene, and now the arena scene."

"Certainly for us, regarding the band's success, there's been no boom where we had a hit single that made it on the radio or something like that. It didn't happen that way. We worked very hard. I think the fans have been with us from the beginning because of the way it's kind of been this underground, kind of grassroots growth about the whole thing. We didn't skip any steps. We paid our dues, and I think that people who like us, and who like the music that we're making will definitely appreciate that."

On attending this year's Grammy Awards, where they were nominated for an award in the Best Metal Performance category:

"It was pretty cool. It was like looking in a big fish tank. We were surrounded by all these celebrities and people that want to be seen and all that stuff. It was definitely not our thing. But it was definitely something cool to check out. Obviously for us to be nominated for it, and to share the company of SLAYER and MINISTRY, and to represent metal, was something that we are very, very proud of. As far as the scene of what was going on there and everything it was definitely very foreign to us. It's not something that you see every day. It was probably a once in a lifetime experience, it was a lot of fun."

On how they keep going and put out so much energy night after night:

"I think the best way to explain that is something that we've actually talked about. We're fans of music. We like going to shows. If we're going to go out and sit through four bands to see the fourth or fifth band, and pay twenty dollars or twenty-five dollars to see a band, it better be pretty damn good. For us, as fans of music, we want to make sure that everyone who comes to see us gets their money's worth. Not only that, but comes back the second time. We want to turn people on to what we've got going on. It's our job, and as long as we keep putting out music that we believe in, it's not really that hard to do. At the same time, when you play seven days a week sometimes it's hard to pull that together. But I think the thing that keeps us grounded, or keeps us wanting to do that again, is for everybody to have a good time and get their money's worth."

On career goals:

"To put out good music. And to be able to write music that's better than the music we've put out. And by better I don't mean more sinister, or more soulful, I just think that over all we just want to continue to evolve, and to be able to live our current lives, and make songs that are better than the work we've done in the past. I just want to do that."

"I think the only thing harder than getting to where we are now is maintaining the spot we are in. So that's a big thing. We want to continue on, and continue to grow, and continue to share what we're doing with people who are interested."

On recently being caught in a state of confusion when it was announced that they would be playing this year's Family Values Tour, and then later that they would not be playing the summer festival:

"As far as that one particular tour goes, we've done everything we can not to comment about it. We had nothing to do with getting on it, getting off of it. It's a rumor that was started by their [KORN's] camp, and it was in hopes of helping themselves out. There's really nothing to say about it. We had absolutely nothing to do with it; we're focusing on writing good music, not starting rumors."

On what lies ahead for LAMB OF GOD after 2007:

"Maybe take a little time off with our families, get back to our old lives for a minute, get back together, and see if we've got what it takes to put together a better record than 'Sacrament'."

Read the entire interview at The Triangle Online.