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Lamb of God has released a new track today, ‘512’ from their forthcoming album VII: Sturm Und Drang, officially due out on July 24, via Epic Records in the USA and Nuclear Blast for all other territories. You can hear ‘512’ on Spotify at this link or below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLJiyZk8P2s&feature=youtu.be

In an interview with www.RollingStone.com describing the track, front man Randy Blythe commented how his incarceration in a prison in the Czech Republic colored his writing for VII: Sturm Und Drang:

“There are aspects of your personality that you could cultivate in prison that are beneficial to your survival that would be seen as psychosis or extreme paranoia,” says the singer, seated in a hotel restaurant in New York City. “You have to be ready for violence at any time. Anyone who is 100 percent honest in prison will get taken advantage of, maybe by other prisoners, maybe by guards. For me, being in prison was a lot of figuring out what I could get away with, how I could work outside any set of rules in order to remain as comfortable as I could. You’re cultivating your psyche in your deceit. In prison, everyone is listening all the time, and if they hear you say something that they can take, they might internalize it and be like, ‘This guy is talking to someone,’ and he’ll wind up dead.”