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FOR NO GOOD REASON, HERE’S AN EMBARRASSING PHOTO OF LAMB OF GOD’S CHRIS ADLER IN HIGH SCHOOL

 Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 at 3:32pm by

I have a theory that there are two periods in which no one – and I mean absolutely no one – looked cool:

  1. High school.
  2. The 80s.

Lamb of God’s Chris Adler, who I think is a fantastic drummer and an insanely cool and down to earth guy, was born in 1972, which means he had the unfortunate luck of being in high school in the 80s, which a double whammy of awful.

So. After the jump we have an old yearbook photo of Chris’, sent to us by reader Norm Burt, who apparently has a buddy that went to high school with Chris. Yes, it is a bad photo, and yes, it is bad in a very funny way. But Chris, if you’re reading this, know it’s nothing personal. I looked pretty dorky in high school, too.

Here it is…

-AR

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  • Viking_xxx

    Come on, that is not that bad….

    • iceman

      agreed. i was expecting much worse

      • Geekbeater

        DUDE I thought he was gonna have glasses and be fiddling with his calculator or some shit. He looks like a normal dude. I was expecting way way worse.

  • Sickboy666

    Guns N’ Roses looked cool in the 80′s… right?

  • Ajax

    Even then he was far more metal than most

  • Spanky

    No beard…strange

  • http://thenumberoftheblog.wordpress.com/ groverXIII

    He looks like James Bond. With a mullet.

  • Horeshine

    I’d love a whole section with old high school pictures of metal musicians… that would be awesome! Make it happen!

    • Adam

      +10

      That’d be awesome.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Gavin/1396340262 Mark Gavin

      They did a post a while back. I’m sure you can find it if you search “yearbook,” or something along those lines.

  • MrC

    What’s so bad about it?

    You guys really miss the mark sometimes.

  • Romaould the Loquacious

    lol That’s awesome. You should find more year book photos of more metal significants. I’m sure Dio’s photo would be a cheap laugh. lol

    • Utmu

      They had cameras then?

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kasper-Maigaard/1027001938 Kasper Maigaard

        They had epic artists who forged moments of ones eternal soul into the physical material which later would turn into music and be called “metal”.

        • Lorenzo

          What Kasper is trying to say is: No they didn’t.

  • Jordan Munson

    I happen to think he looks pretty suave in this picture. He looks better than probably 80% of high schoolers in the 80s did.

  • orbital

    not as bad as I thought it would be. Although, his hair is pretty sideways, not unlike many a douchecore band has these days. So I guess that in itself is pretty embarassing. Was he wearing girl pants too?

  • SonOF

    Not really horrible, especially for high school in the 80′s.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Devon-Czekaj/550092101 Devon Czekaj

    So were/are all metal musicians nerds in high school?

  • Alex_P

    Looks better than I looked in grade 8. And I was in grade 8 in 2004/5

  • Ian P

    Chris Adler is an old poser.

    • Andy P

      One can only hope that you’re trying to be sarcastic.

      • Freedom35

        Chris said it in the interview.

  • BigJoe

    I still wack-off to early 80′s pics of Deborah Harry from Blondie. Is that wrong?

  • http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/62449cbe5ea8d22bcc2e76890fceaa37.png Lord Bling

    Mine is 20 times worse. Then again, I’m not in a famous metal band either. I wonder if the two are mutually exclusive?

  • Utmu

    It truly doesn’t look that bad. I was hoping it didn’t.

  • Octillus

    Devin Townsend when he had hair. You know, entirely covering his head:

    http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/30259575/Devin+Townsend+1245780591065.jpg

    • Rachel

      Wow. Where is this from?

    • Gaia

      “You know, entirely covering his head” Oh poor dev. There was a time.

    • Mike2

      Where the fuck is that quote coming from? :P

      The only thing missing is the Ph.D in music…

      • Lolz0r

        Seems to be one of those things in yearbooks where they predict what you’re gunna end up as, hahaha.
        I’d say that prediction is a win.

  • http://www.themetalreporter.net iRoar

    It’s not that bad,

    Looks pimpin … Bling!

  • Facebook User

    redefining the phrase ‘slow news day’

  • sabbathfan

    Are you fucking kidding me?! That’s what you bother putting up? Slow news day, huh?

  • http://lavidastrangiato.blogspot.com/ Jake Strangiato

    Mine are all way, way worse. My high school hairstyles ranged from “completely awful” to “crimes against humanity” Chris doesn’t really have anything to worry about.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Trip-Cahouet/706361037 Trip Cahouet

    You would’ve thought he had started his beard then.

  • http://myspace.com/obeydarklord mr_Izan

    i was expecting a bright pink hawaiin shirt and neon green glasses coming from the 80′s and such. this isn’t that bad.
    he might have been a little geeky in high school, but now he’s very successful. i was one of the “cool” angsty kids in high school and now i’m a loser. posting comments on a website. FML.

  • SourDeez

    Someone needs to photoshop an epic beard in there.

    • Skeletonwitchcraft

      his beard is epic

      looks like some cival war general

  • john

    looks kinda like george thourogood

  • eetfuk

    looks utterly badass!

  • Adam

    Fuck that’s not bad! He actually looks pretty classy. MY high school photos were worse than that, and I was in high school in the second half of the 90s.

  • Fufkin

    No shame there at all – Licence To Mullet

  • katia

    Hahaha this made my morning. Thank you!

  • Gossamer Axe

    Wait, you have obviously never seen the pictures of “glam” pantera when they started. Now that’s gay