Label: Snakefarm

Released 4/12/2025

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Twenty-five years into a music career that has seen five Grammy nominations, two RIAA certified Gold records and, most recently, the publication of ‘Desolation: A Heavy Metal Memoir’, an honest reflection on his life in music and beyond, Mark Morton’s creative energy is at an all-time high. Over the course of two decades spent building a worldwide audience as guitarist and songwriter for Lamb of God, Morton’s musical ambitions were steadily evolving. While enjoying Lamb of God’s success in the heavy metal world, there were still elements of his songwriting that weren’t finding their way to the surface – the result being, first, 2019’s ‘Anesthetic’, an album featuring a host of high-profile artists, including late Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington, and now ‘Without The Pain’, his second solo outing and a paean to his longstanding love of southern rock…Outlaw country star Cody Jinks delivers two powerful songs, including the haunting ‘Brother’; Blackberry Smoke frontman Charlie Starr teams up with Americana superstar Jason Isbell on ‘Come December’, while Jaren Johnston (The Cadillac Three) delivers an attitude packed performance on opening track, ‘Hell & Back’. Meanwhile, country hitmaker Travis Denning – a Georgia-born artist with a previous No. 1 on the US country airplay chart – collaborates on two moving numbers, both featuring subtle and delicate guitar textures that showcase a different dimension of Morton’s songwriting.