Lamb of God

[lizard]

holy shit this thing is selling.

LAMB OF GOD's "Sacrament" sold around 63,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 8 on next week's The Billboard 200 chart. This is almost double the amount of records sold by its predecessor, "Ashes of the Wake", which registered a first-week tally of 35,000 back in September 2004. "Ashes of the Wake" has since gone on to sell 260,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The following are notable heavy metal/hard rock U.S. sales debuts for the week ending August 27, 2006, as reported by Nielsen SoundScan (all CD figures are rounded to the nearest thousand, except numbers under 3,000, which are rounded to the nearest hundred; The Billboard 200 chart position included, where applicable):

LAMB OF GOD – "Sacrament": 63,000 (#8)
DEICIDE – "The Stench of Redemption": 4,000
WALLS OF JERICHO – "With Devils Amongst Us All": 2,800
MISERY SIGNALS – "Mirrors": 2,500
THREAT SIGNAL – Under Reprisal": 700
TERRORIZER – "Darker Days Ahead": 400
MERCENARY – "The Hours That Remain": 300
POISONBLACK – "Lust Stained Despair": 300
URKRAFT – "Inhuman Abberation": less than 20

LOL "less than 20"

 

[Erik]

LOL "less than 20"

i'm pretty sure lethal sells better than that

 

[lizard]

something tells me if you only sell "less than 20" perhaps it's time for a career reevaluation.

 

[Reign in Acai]

Anything more than 20 would be considered selling out.

 

[lizard]

well I did consider the "art" v. "profit" angle. but sometimes a little thing like reality comes into play, like, maybe nobody likes your music.

Lethal would sell a copy to most of the board regulars here so they are already a leg up.

edit okay this is only US sales so....maybe Urkraft sells like hotcakes in Danemark, maybe Edenkriss has bought a copy.

 

[Dark One]

LOL - Thyrfing's Urkraft sells better in the U.S. than Urkraft. (I think by about 2 copies or so).

 

[Erik]

urkraft is one of those bands that everyone has heard of but noone likes

 

[Dark One]

urkraft is one of those bands that everyone has heard of but noone likes

I've never heard of them. And I hate them.

 

[lizard]

lol I image searched for Urkraft and got (my translation in yellow)

En afrikansk oas I centrala Stockholm

Guinea, Gambia, Elfenbenskusten…(Guinea, Gambia, Elf like creatures)
Var trumma I dig ska vacka lusten (From dreams I dig ska, and lust)
I en valdig barfotadans (I in something barf)
Skall vi forsatta dig I trans (I fortunately dig transexuals)
Sa satt pa dig det mest afrikanska du har (So sit the most africans here)
Och vi dig ner till Afrika tar! (Oh, I dig African tar!)

 

[General Zod]

I don't much care for the new LoG CD. It doesn't seemed as focused.

Zod

 

[cthulufhtagn]

didn't realize they had a new one out

i like ashes of the wake a lot, it's a pretty occasional listen but sometimes the time is right, as it were
their others are ok but less consistent

 

[NAD]

That one song with Alex Skolnick and Whosits kicks ass, other than that I'd much rather listen to old Vader. I've only heard Asses of the Rwake though.

 

[cthulufhtagn]

^chris poland

 

[NAD]

D'oh yeah, that guy.

<3 Poland

 

[lizard]

okay some guy on the NM board said LoG sounds like Pantera - true or false

 

[General Zod]

There's definitely a Pantera influence. That influence is especially pronounced in the new single, "Redneck".

Zod

 

[Krilons Resa]

Anything more than 20 would be considered selling out.

LOL!

 

[Nate The Great]

The new LoG is good, and they have always had a Pantera influence for sure.

 

[cthulufhtagn]

yea i've heard lamb of god described as the "new pantera", one can only hope

that they replace pantera in the mainstream metal pantheon of sorts, as it were, ahem hem, pip pip

 

[KILL TULLY]

I saw them play once and they are really boring and bad at awsome.