LAMB OF GOD released "New American Gospel" on September 26th, 2000, through Prosthetic Records, their first album under that name after recording as BURN THE PRIEST. Steve Austin produced it with Chris Adler and the band at Austin Enterprises in Clinton, Massachusetts, and it was the first record with Willie Adler on guitar, replacing Abe Spear. The production is deliberately unpolished — the 2006 remaster carries a note attributing that partly to time constraints and partly to heavy drinking — and the songs move between groove metal, thrash, grindcore and death metal without settling. NME described it as harking back to when SLAYER ruled metal with speedy riffs and nihilism; Revolver later included it among the greatest heavy metal albums ever made. It has sold over 100,000 copies in the United States.
