Lamb of God will return to our country after an overwhelming visit to the Graspop Metal Meeting this summer. The American metal-band from Virginia left the competition far behind them this year, with the album ‘Wrath’. Even though they'd already had a Grammy nomination in 2007 for ‘Sacrament’ , this time the band set their sights even higher. As expected, there was also a tour connected to the release, which landed them in the wake of Mettalica and Mastodon over the past summer too. So now, on February 16, their very own headline show in the AB.

Special guest on this tour is none less than American death-metal band Job For A Cowboy. The New York Times once described them as ‘an Arizona band with a guttural, brute-force sound descended indirectly from hard-core punk’ and Rolling Stone couldn't word it any better than ‘a straightforwardly brutal act’. ‘Ruination’ is now the title of the new album that was released this summer on the Metal Blade label.

Following the confirmation of August Burns Red (in the AB for the third time, following a sold-out Club and a support for a sold-out Bring Me the Horizon) and the American colleagues from Between The Buried and Me, the line-up headlined by Lamb Of God is now entirely complete.

Between The Buried and Me is a progressive metalcore band from North Carolina, USA. ‘The Great Misdirect’, their fifth studio album (not counting the covers-only LP ‘The Anatomy Of’) is out now. They’ve already toured with all sorts of bands, such as The Dillinger Escape Plan and Children of Bodom but also the likes of Dream Theater. The band says they listened to a lot of Mastodon, The Mars Volta and Megadeth for the new album. That sounds promising.

August Burns Red, second on the bill, feel quite at home in the AB by now. They played a sold-out ABClub in late 2008 and at the time we described the album ‘Messengers’ as searing passion and technical virtuosity collected in 11 biting metalcore tracks. On 1 November 2009 they’ll be travelling in the wake of Bring Me The Horizon for a sold out Main Hall and appear on our stage once more in early 2010. All that while bearing the brilliant album ‘Constellations’.

LAMB OF GOD - ‘Set To Fail’ live at Graspop