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“I’m not anybody’s best guitar player. I’m not the fastest, the most knowledgeable, the shreddiest. I’m none of those things. But I play and it sounds like me”: Mark Morton on the chemistry behind Lamb Of God's twin-guitar groove and what he owes ZZ Top

Morton gets geeky with rhythm and discusses the making of Lamb Of God's pummelling new album, Into Oblivion, and explains why he is proud to be (just) behind the beat

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Like Nuno Bettencourt, Mark Morton isn’t afraid to use a classic dirt pedal in an unorthodox fashion – here he reveals the secret behind his crushing Lamb Of God rhythm tone

Take one classic overdrive pedal, and use it in a way that suggests you forgot it was was ever an overdrive pedal in the first place

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“I’m sure there are players that don’t have an interest in playing dynamically and just want to be on or off… that’s cool, and there’s a lot of pickups that do that. But not mine”: How Mark Morton and Gibson reinvented the Les Paul for modern metal

The Lamb Of God guitarist walks us through the evolution of his signature Les Paul Modern Quilt and explains why passive humbuckers beat active every time

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“It turns out you all really love a wildcard”: The hottest new guitar gear releases of February 2026 – according to Guitar World readers

GW readers have been voting for their favorite gear drops of the month – this is what you picked

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“Belying its stately, muted aesthetic, this is surely the most vicious artist series model in the Gibson catalog”: Gibson Mark Morton Les Paul Modern Quilt review

Lamb of God riff-master Mark Morton's Les Paul has been years in the making, subject to brutal road-testing, featuring a hot custom-wound humbucker pairing, but it's finally here

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“I didn’t want something too radical but I also wanted something heavy metal”: Mark Morton and Gibson unveil a signature Les Paul Modern Quilt that brings the fire with a “flamethrower” bridge humbucker

The Lamb Of God guitarist's long-awaited Les Paul features an all-new set of ceramic humbuckers and is limited to just 350 units worldwide

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“It’s such an important piece of music history. For me to be associated with it is one of the greatest honors of my career”: Mark Morton’s signature Gibson Les Paul has been in the making for more than 3 years – now it’s finally here

The Lamb of God guitarist signed with Gibson back in 2022 and has been rigorously road-testing various pickup prototypes on the road

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StubHub sorry for "confusion" over Christian Christmas concert promoted with a picture of metal giants Lamb of God

'Behold The Lamb Of God' event in South Carolina featured picture of Randy Blythe's metal giants on ticketing website

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“I thought we’d follow the Sex Pistols model – one album and out. We were this disgusting-sounding metal band, I never thought that it could last”: How Laid To Rest, against all odds, gave Lamb Of God an actual career

The opening track of 2004’s Ashes Of The Wake helped lift the band from heavy metal underdogs to generation-defining superstars

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"He was a genuine, unforgettable, lunatic presence." How a heroin-kicking, hell-raising, heavy metal-hating genius named Brent Hinds changed the face of metal forever

Guitarist, artist, lunatic woodworker, dog-lover, psychedelic traveller – Brent Hinds was all of these and more

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"My first guitar was nasty, old, and cheap. It didn’t have a name on it – they were too embarrassed to put it on, I think!” 7 electric guitar icons on the budget acoustics that shaped their early years

From Alex Lifeson to Peter Frampton, Mark Morton to Michael Schenker, we share the stories of famous guitarists' first guitars in their own words

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Watch: we asked a bunch of metal artists to pick four classic metal albums

Members of Lamb Of God, Lorna Shore, Halestorm, Bullet For My Valentine and more got involved

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“He handed me that famous pink Strat. That riff is the first thing I played – it had that riff in it. I’m lucky to be the guy it came out for”: Mark Morton on his all-star solo album feat. Grace Bowers, Tyler Bryant and a perfect solo from Jason Isbell

The Lamb of God guitarist reveals how he enlisted some of Southern rock’s finest for Without the Pain

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“He told me that after he was gone, he just wanted to be remembered for bringing country music into metal”: Brent Hinds, 1974-2025 – the guitar world pays tribute

The former Mastodon guitarist died aged 51 following a fatal motorcycle accident, and his peers have now come out to honor his life and legacy

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“We were on stools next to each other, going back and forth on the parts in front of the board. That was the first time we’d met”: How Grace Bowers ended up on Lamb of God guitarist Mark Morton’s latest solo record

Bowers recently guested at the 67th Grammy Awards with Coldplay’s Chris Martin and collaborated with Peter Frampton and Trey Anastasio

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Featuring Marcus King, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Bernie Marsden and five other sailors on the seven seas of rock

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“Dime is in there. I have a big Eddie Van Halen influence. The same goes for Eric Clapton. It all channels back to the blues”: Mark Morton explains why he’s jamming with Grace Bowers and Jason Isbell on his solo album – and those Gibson signature rumors

His second solo album, Without The Pain, features Troy Sanders, Jason Isbell, Jared James Nichols, Grace Bowers and a stack of guitars from his frighteningly valuable collection

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“It deals with depression, girlfriends, substance abuse – all that stuff. We exorcised some demons”: How Lamb Of God turned from political fury to personal darkness on Sacrament

2006’s Sacrament is still one of the most intense albums Lamb Of God made –and there was a reason for it

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Featuring Joe Bonamassa, Mark Morton & Charlie Starr, The Darkness and five other tattooed beat messiahs

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"You can get clean and live a life beyond anything you’ve ever dreamed of." Lamb of God's Mark Morton shares inspiring message as he celebrates 6 years clean

Lamb of God guitarist is loving life without booze or drugs – and he wants everyone to know recovery is possible

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“It’s a very dark record. Randy had a lot to get off his chest. You can hear a real mania in the way we played”: The chaotic story of Lamb Of God’s New American Gospel, the album that kickstarted 2000s metal

Lamb Of God’s New American Gospel ushered in the New Wave Of American Heavy Metal a couple of years early

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Including Larkin Poe, The Sheepdogs, Beth Hart (featuring Slash) and five other players, performers and portrayers, each another's audience outside the gilded cage

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“My mom would still be bugging me, like, ‘You need to go to college and get a real job.’ I’m in the van, getting baloney sandwiches on 100 bucks a night. And I’m 30!” Bill Kelliher and Mark Morton on how Leviathan and Ashes of the Wake changed everything

With two classic albums, both released on the same day, Lamb of God and Mastodon's fates have long been connected and now they're touring together, Kelliher and Morton reflect on a turning point for both bands

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“You’ve got a lot of great guitars but this one might take the cake”: Has Mark Morton just given us a glimpse of his upcoming signature Gibson Les Paul?

Two years after he signed with Gibson, the Lamb of God metal machine has seemingly teased his long-awaited signature model

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"You’re going to have to prioritize staying clean over everything else." The vital advice Guns N' Roses legend Slash gave Lamb Of God's Mark Morton on kicking addiction

Lamb Of God guitarist Mark Morton reveals that the Guns N' Roses icon was one of the people that helped him on his path to sobriety

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