Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake (Instrumental 🎶🎸🥁)

Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake (Instrumental)

Favorite Lick(s): 3:13 1:01 0:00

This song if any is the one for me that solidifies that this album is definitely about the war in Iraq. The first spoken word part is eerie to hear, those poor innocent civilians. The song starts out with a nice ass lick, chris' double bass skills are really nice here (like always hehe). The whole song is full of really nice licks, literally every one of them is (for me) dope as fuck. The drum fill at 1:21 is real nice. All the solo's are really good too, every one get's a chance to show their stuff. 3:13 is undoubtedly my favorite part, I still remember hearing it for the first time. Enjoy!

🎤 Lyrics Start 🎤

"We killed a lot of innocent civilians
To us, every civilian in Baghdad was a terrorist
They said 'These Fedayeen now in civilian clothes' that makes everybody free game
But if they came within our perimeter, we lit 'em up
And when we would pull the body out, and when we would search the car, we would find nothing
This took place time and time again. No harm, no foul, that's Okay, don't worry about it
Because this is a new type of war, this is an eradication."

[Guitar Solo: Mark Morton (1:31-1:55)]

[Guitar Solo: Alex Skolnick (1:56-2:57)]
[Guitar Solo: Chris Poland (3:45-4:14)]

[Guitar Solo: Willie Adler (4:46-5:21)]

"I honestly feel we're committing genocide over here
I don't believe in killing civilians, and I'm not going to kill civilians for the United States Marine Corps."

🎤 Lyrics End 🎤

**Wikipedia stuff**

Ashes of the Wake is the third studio album and first major-label release by American heavy metal band Lamb of God, released in 2004 via Epic Records. The album debuted at number 27 on the Billboard 200, selling 35,000 copies in its first week and was rated by Guitar World as the 49th greatest Guitar Album of all Time.[7] This album also was rated by Metal Hammer as the 5th greatest Metal Album of The 21st Century.[8] The album was inspired by the events that took place during the war in Iraq with songs such as "Ashes of the Wake" (which includes snippets of former Marine Staff Sergeant Jimmy Massey in an interview after his return from the Iraq War), "Now You've Got Something to Die For", "One Gun" and "The Faded Line". The quote at the beginning of "Omerta" is a paraphrase of the Sicilian Mafia's code of silence.[9] As of August 2010, Ashes of the Wake has sold 398,000 copies in the United States.[10] Ten years after its release, as of 2014, sales have topped 400,000 copies sold and is Lamb of God’s best-selling record.[11] The album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in February 2016.[12]

The first pressing came with a bonus disc titled "Pure American Metal", including songs taken from the band's previous albums (Burn the Priest, New American Gospel and As the Palaces Burn), a live recording of the song "Black Label" from DVD Terror and Hubris, as well as a pre-production demo of the song "Laid to Rest".

The Japanese edition included a bonus song "Another Nail for Your Coffin" which was released worldwide in 2010 in a three-CD box set called Hourglass: The Anthology. The song was later included on the 15th anniversary edition of the album.

A DualDisc version was released in the United States. The DVD side contained the album in LPCM 2.0, and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, as well as various video clips, including the promo videos for "Now You've Got Something to Die For" (intended to promote the Killadelphia release) and "Laid to Rest", a short on the New England Metalfest, a "Meet the Band" and a clip from the Terror and Hubris DVD. A production error in the 5.1 mix of "Break You" causes the vocals to pitch shift high and low throughout the song.

The album was generally well received; Blabbermouth.net gave it a 7 rating.[5] Johnny Loftus of AllMusic gave it a 4 out of 5 star rating.[4] He praised Blythe's vocals, saying they became, "Lamb of God's threshold of pain conduit."

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Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake (Instrumental 🎶🎸🥁)