"I'm not really ashamed or embarrassed of anything," Lamb of God's Mark Morton explained to Mexico's Summa Infero (transcribed via Blabbermouth), "It's my life, you know what I mean? So, hopefully people find something they relate to in it or find some kind of spirit in the book, if they take the time with it."
Mark Morton's most recent project, Desolation: A Heavy Metal Memoir, was released last year, and was a full recollection of Morton's journey throughout his career. And while he emphasizes that his "life has by no stretch been a sob story," but there is a "lot of just absolutely thrilling things" that he's been "fortunate enough to be a part of, and there's a lot of humour in the book, but there's some tragedy and trauma as well."
Morton illustrated that the memoir is his way of trying to "tell those [traumatic] stories with a sense of respect, but for people who may have had a similar experience."
And while trauma is counterbalanced by fun tales of Lamb of God, one of the traumatic situations Morton was referring to was the passing of his day-old daughter back in 2009, which Morton told LiveSigning on a separate occasion that the chapter was the "hardest" to tackle when writing Desolation A Heavy Metal Memoir.
Because alongside the loss of his daughter, Morton battled drug addiction, another topic that is a "tough line to walk" when writing a memoir he explained to Full Metal Jackie during another interview, "It's a scary thing to try and balance how much you want to let go of, 'cause there's some really, really personal stories in here," Morton elaborated.
Yet despite that trauma, Morton makes sure to highlight the of the beginnings of his career, particularly, detailing when Lamb of God was originally Burn The Priest, saying to Livesigning that he was "trying to characterize what an absolute just cyclone of chaos and idiocy we were back then" in the book. And this section of the book was "the most fun" for Morton to work on, even as he detailed "the early Lamb of God days" in which they were "playing, like, squats and warehouses in Philly."
Alongside Mark Morton's resumé – successful lead guitarist of Lamb of God, several-time solo artist – Morton decided to add author simply "just to see if I could do it, and it wound up being a mountain of work," he told Full Metal Jackie a few months back. And when discussing the book with Mexico's Summer Inferno recently, he elaborated that he "just made a decision. Once I decided to write that book, I really didn't look over my shoulder much at all. I think the challenge was deciding to do it, and then once I flipped that switch and said, 'Okay, I'm gonna write this book and tell this story,' I just told the story."
