With a decade-spanning catalog that now includes ten studio albums, Lamb Of God have evolved considerably since their early days. For guitarist Mark Morton, however, one particular record remains his personal favorite.
That album is ‘As The Palaces Burn’, the band’s 2003 sophomore effort. Speaking with Gear4Music, Morton explained why the record continues to stand apart from the rest of the Lamb Of God catalog:
“…I just think there’s something really unique about that record. It’s really the sound of the band just kind of getting its legs up under ourselves as songwriters, just barely. And it’s naive and abstract at the same time, and the way it sounds, it doesn’t particularly sound very good, but it sounds on fire.”
Morton went on to describe the record’s raw sonic character, comparing its sound to the colors featured on its cover.
“Someone told me very recently that, a good friend of mine said, ‘That record sounds like the colors that are on the cover.’ And I was, like, ‘Yeah, it’s like really burning bright red and yellow.’”
For Morton, the appeal ultimately comes down to the album capturing Lamb Of God at an important point in their development, before the band had fully refined the sound they would go on to establish.
“I just think it’s just a very early representation of the elements of what Lamb Of God would eventually develop and refine. You can really listen top to bottom on that, and every song kind of has its own character, and it’s an interesting — kind of simple, the instrumentation and the production [are] very simple, but real cool, man.”
Released in 2003, ‘As The Palaces Burn’ would become one of the defining early releases in Lamb Of God‘s catalog, making Morton’s choice a fitting reflection of the band’s formative years.
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