LAMB OF GOD — THROUGH THE YEARS

THE VALUE OF GETTING ANOTHER CHANCE

One of the best things about building a concert photography archive long enough is getting another opportunity with an artist years later.

LAMB OF GOD gave me exactly that.

The photographs in this story come from performances separated by more than a decade. That gap turns the gallery into something more useful than a single-show portfolio. It becomes a record of how a band changes, how production changes and how I changed behind the camera.

THE EARLIER ERA

The earlier LAMB OF GOD photographs came from a stage where the assignment was exactly what concert photography always demands: read the movement, survive the lighting and make the first three songs count.

RANDY BLYTHE is a frontman built for live photography. His movement is explosive, but the strongest frames are not random. You have to anticipate when that movement is about to become a shape, an expression or a moment that reads instantly in one still image.

BACK THROUGH MY LENS — 2026

When LAMB OF GOD came back through my lens in Irving in 2026, the assignment felt familiar and completely new at the same time.

I had more experience, a different eye and a much clearer understanding of what I wanted the final photographs to say. Instead of simply documenting the show, I was building another chapter beside photographs made more than ten years earlier.

WHAT CHANGED

The gear changed. The venues changed. My editing changed. Most importantly, my timing changed.

Years in the pit teach you when not to shoot. You start waiting for the hands, the eyes, the jump, the light or the composition to become the frame instead of collecting hundreds of nearly-there moments.

WHAT DIDN’T

LAMB OF GOD still demands speed. The stage still feels volatile. RANDY BLYTHE still gives a photographer almost no excuse to leave the pit without something powerful.

That consistency is exactly why seeing the two eras together works.

THE ARCHIVE CONTINUES

This is what Through My Lens is supposed to be: not just the best photograph from one night, but the history of an artist as I was fortunate enough to witness pieces of it.

I hope the next LAMB OF GOD chapter does not take another decade.