WHAT KIND OF SIDE PROJECT WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO SEE FROM THE MEMBERS OF LAMB OF GOD IN ’08?

As my man Axl astutely pointed out the other day, most anytime a huge rock band has ever officially announced a hiatus, one or more solo/side projects emerged within months. One commenter quickly mentioned that Lamb of God’s recently verbalized impending break for 2008 is not necessarily much of a “hiatus” per se (bands need down time too!), and he has a point, but it’s pretty interesting to follow Axl’s train of thought — next year would indeed be a perfect opportunity for one or more members of LoG to really flex some different musical muscles on a track/album/rock opera of a different ilk.

And so, here are my hopefuls for potential LoG 2008 side projects:

1) Chris Adler’s funk record — dude has one of the tightest pockets around, regardless of genre. With full horn section, Adler could potentially revolutionize what Tower of Power started back in the day.

2) Randy Blythe’s lounge lizard album — as shown on Sacrament (a lil’ bit, at least), Randy can (mostly) carry a tune. Let him prove it Vegas-style, and bring some brutality to Sinatra’s oft-bitten vocal style. If he could play piano too and become fully self-sufficient, LoG might need to look for a new frontman.

3) John Campbell/Victor Wooten/Jaco Pastorius bass trio project — we’re gonna need a shovel over here to get Jaco out of the ground…

4) Mark Morton goes on a ten month crystal meth binge, and records almost 2200 tracks in his basement using Garage Band. Also he gets really good at Guitar Hero.

5) Willie Adler, Andy Summers, and Stone Gossard join forces with 74 other rhythm guitar players to rival this summer’s Boredoms-led 77 drummer performance in Brooklyn. They poorly choose to call the event “Rhythm Nation”, and promptly get sued by Janet Jackson, but her boob falls out in court and the legalities are dropped immediately.

Any other hypotheses?

-KW