Burn The Priest

A Richmond, Virginia-based heavy metal group featuring vocalist Randy Blythe, guitarists Mark Morton and Abe Spear, bassist John Campbell, and drummer Chris Adler, Burn the Priest released a short burst of material before morphing into the more accomplished Lamb of God in 1999. Employing a versatile blend of metalcore, thrash, punk, sludge, and groove-laden death metal, the band issued a demo, two split EPs -- one with Agents of Satan and the other with ZED -- and an eponymous full-length outing before changing their name to avoid being mistaken for a Satanic metal band. Lam...