Why Lamb of God?
That may take people too far in the other direction! CA: You’re right. It may very well go in another direction. But there was another reason we changed the name. In April of 1999 we let our guitar player go – and my younger brother moved back to Virginia from Seattle – and this was a guy that I’d been playing music with for about thirteen years. So it was just very natural for us to get together and start playing music, and he’s a guitar player. So I asked him if he’d like to try out and he was very excited. Of course, I was a little biased. But when he came up to the rehearsal space, he just blew us all away. Everybody was just laughing at how good this guy was. So there was a huge jump there in our focus, our potenial and our momentum. For me, we needed a monumental turning point, that effort, that next step that we were all able to now take as well. MU: So what does the new name mean? The same thing? CA: Yeah, it does. It doesn’t even really mean that we, in a religious way, did an
