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Wednesday, March 4th 2009
LAMB OF GOD UNLEASHES WRATH AND SECURES # 2 SPOT ON BILLBOARD'S TOP 200
New York, NY – The plague is now unleashed. WRATH, the new release from Epic
recording artists LAMB OF GOD, rocketed onto Billboard’s Top 200 this week
at # 2, with an impressive 67,631 copies sold making this the
highest-charting album debut and biggest sales week of the band’s career.
The band finds themselves smack in the middle of the Top 3, bringing metal
back to the top of the charts between mainstream artists Taylor Swift, and
The Jonas Brothers. WRATH is the band’s third album on Epic Records and
their first with Grammy-winning producer Josh Wilbur.
WRATH’S plague continues its spread overseas, wreaking havoc worldwide with
massive chart positions – album debuted at # 1 in Canada, # 8 in Australia,
- 14 in Japan, # 25 in the UK and chart debuts in the following markets in
which Lamb of God have never charted in previously including; Norway,
Denmark, The Netherlands, Germany and that’s only the beginning.
In conjunction with the album’s launch, the band’s EscapeThe Plague contest
site went live on February 24th at lamb-of-god.com/escapetheplague. As
previously announced, the first 100,000 copies of the physical cd contained
a coded card insert that enabled 100 fans to win extraordinary prizes,
including two coveted trips to see the band play Knebworth Park on August 2.
WRATH was released in four configurations, an LP, a CD, a Deluxe Edition CD
with bonus disc – which contains isolated recording parts – , as well as a
Super Deluxe version featuring a limited edition box containing an LP,
deluxe edition CD and USB drive containing 2 exclusive bonus tracks.
With the success of WRATH, LAMB OF GOD have further cemented their place in
heavy metal history. The band has previously had success with 2006’s
Grammy-nominated Sacrament. The album debuted at #8 on Billboard, had the
biggest first-week sales of any metal album in that year, and earned them a
live performance on NBC’s “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.” 2004’s Ashes of
the Wake climbed to #27 on the Billboard Top 200. The band’s 2005 DVD,
Killadelphia, has been certified platinum, and their 2008 DVD, Walk With Me
In Hell, shipped gold and debuted at #2 on the Billboard Music Video chart.
The Lamb of God North American WRATH TOUR kicks off April 2nd in Phoenix, AZ
with As I Lay Dying, Children of Bodom, God Forbid, and Municipal Waste
supporting.
www.lamb-of-god.com
The following dates are confirmed:
With As I Lay Dying, Children Of Bodom, God Forbid, Municipal Waste
April 2 Phoenix, AZ Dodge Theatre
April 3 Los Angeles, CA Palladium
April 4 San Jose, CA Events Center
April 5 Fresno, CA Crest Theatre
April 7 Seattle, WA Paramount
April 8 Vancouver, BC UBC Thunderbird Arena
April 10 Edmonton, AB Shaw Conference Center
April 11 Calgary, AB The Coral
April 12 Saskatoon, SK Prairieland
April 13 Winnipeg, MB Convention Center
April 14 Thunder Bay, ON City Auditorium
April 16 Toronto, ON Ricoh Coliseum
April 17 Montreal, QC Cepsum
April 18 Worcester, MA Palladium
April 19 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
April 21 Columbus, OH LC Pavilion
April 22 Atlanta, GA Tabernacle
April 23 Lafayette, LA Blackham Coliseum
April 24 Houston, TX Verizon Theatre
April 25 Corpus Christi, TX Concrete St. Amphitheatre
April 26 Dallas, TX Palladium Ballroom
April 28 Denver, CO Fillmore
April 29 Kansas City, KS Uptown Theatre
April 30 St. Paul, MN Myth
May 1 Chicago, Il Congress Theatre
May 2 St. Louis, MO The Pageant
May 3 Indianapolis, IN Egyptian
May 5 Louisville, KY Expo Five
May 6 Detroit, MI Fillmore Theatre
May 8 New York, NY Roseland Ballroom
May 9 Asbury Park, NJ Convention Center
May 11 Baltimore, MD Rams Head Live
May 12 Boston, MD House Of Blues
May 13 Albany, NY Washington St. Armory
May 15 Myrtle Beach, SC House Of Blues