Album review: Mark Morton – Without The Pain

It turns out that a change is as good as a rest. For Mark Morton, the 52-year-old guitarist in eternal metal champs Lamb Of God, there’s clearly more to life than massive riffs and sludgy heft, great though he is at those things. Last year’s purgative biography, tellingly titled Desolation: A Heavy Metal Memoir revealed some of the challenges, physical and mental, that Mark has found a way to survive. His solo material is an outlet, an exorcism for the pressures that are perhaps only exacerbated by being part of such an endlessly pummelling outfit as LOG. His one previous solo album, 2019’s Anesthetic, was a varied hard rock effort, notable for featuring a vocal (on Cross Off) from Chester Bennington who had died some 18 months prior to its release.&...

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