Silence of the Lambs

Yesterday afternoon, I got an email from a music publicist entitled, "Silence of the Lambs."

Here's some highlights:

LAMB OF GOD is BANNED from performing at the Forum in Los Angeles!!!

Lamb Of God is being forced to step aside from one of their arena concerts on the upcoming Subliminal Verses Tour with Slipknot, because of their name Lamb Of God and former moniker Burn The Priest.

The venue, The Forum in Los Angeles, is owned by The Faithful Central Bible Church who decided to impose a ruling to BAN LAMB OF God’s performance at their venue.

Drummer Chris Adler clearly states, "The 'situation' in LA can only be described as ridiculous. It's already been a huge waste of energy trying to turn this around. The powers that be aren't interested budging - or doing their research apparently - and we've never been a band to placate anyone to get our way, smooth things over or make anyone feel better. ...

"It's truly a shame for the show overall, especially for our friends and fans in LA that are being forced to miss our part of the show."

" ... the word from the powers that be is that LAMB OF GOD is not the wholesome family fun that the good people of Los Angeles deserve."

Quite surprising to me in this day and age that people are still feaful of music.

As we all know, ritual sacrifice is a big part of concerts all over and people shouldn't be surprised by it.

That's sarcasm, people! It's just music.

Lamb of God will head to Ziggy's in Winston-Salem in the near future, and you can bet I've already pitched a preview story to my editor. I'd be interested in hearing more from the band on what's happened.