Randy Blythe
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593 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 15 Apr
Randy Blythe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Oh, yeah, yeah. And I'm on stage and it is, I think it was like 110 degrees outside.
I'm like, why did we do this? But it's awesome. It's amazing to have a pyro guy, bro. It's like having your own personal wizard. It just presses a button and I am the mother of dragons.
I mean, when you think about it, you're sitting around with people. If there's a fire in someone's backyard, a fire pit, people gravitate towards that. That's right. They sit there and they look at it. It's primal. It is. It's in our DNA.
If you want to call it that. Yeah, sure. 22 year knock down, drag out Olympic level brawl with booze and drugs.
Yes, it's the center of my existence.
14.
I started drinking when I was about 18. And the longer I stay sober, the more I realize how different my drinking was from the beginning. Whereas everybody drinks when they're young, at least in our age group. Sure. My friends would drink and most of them, even on the weekend, maybe get a hangover or whatever and then go on about their life. But with me, when I drank, strange things happened.
I wound up in weird places with weird people doing weird things at times. And... That was even before my band. So once I joined a band... You can get away with a lot of stuff when you're in a band that you can't at a regular job.
Yes, exactly. And when we finally signed to a major, I'd been in the band... nine years at the time, I guess, when our first major label record came out. And we didn't get millions of dollars a piece or anything, but we had to make a decision when our first major label record came out. Like, okay, are we going to devote ourselves full time to this?
Or are we going to continue to weekend warrior this and work when we can and tour when we can? It was a very scary time in my life. I've been working since I was 12.
Yes, burn the boats. Time to do this. And the odds of success, particularly given the nature of our band, are not good. Right. They're not. We're never going to deliver a radio hit.
When I quit the day job and the band became full-time, I no longer had any sort of restraint, except for when I was on stage or in the studio. There's nothing telling me not to drink every day.
And I had some money in my pocket for the first time in my life, and my alcoholism just progressed. And I think it was already there. Like, in retrospect, I'm looking at it, it got worse and worse, though. And particularly in our culture, I think it's changing now. I think the paradigm is changing. I think kids are smarter now.
I don't think they think it's cool to be a drunken train wreck anymore. but we did from the heavy metal world. And our band is from that. And even in the more punk rock scene I come from, there's a long history of junkies and so forth.
Yeah. He was 21 years old.
Yeah.
Yeah. So that sort of mythos, I bought into that. Of course I drink. I'm in a heavy metal band.
And being a train wreck kind of was expected. So it got worse and worse, though. My band was doing better and better, and I was getting worse and worse until finally in 2010, we were in Australia on tour with Metallica. And I woke up one day, and I looked out on my hotel room balcony, and it was a beautiful day in Australia, Brisbane. And I was like, I don't want to live anymore.
It wasn't like I was suicidal. I just wanted to be erased from existence.
Yeah, done. And then I was like, maybe you stop drinking and doing drugs. Your life might get better. And it did. Yeah. So how did you stop? You just... I stopped and I talked to some of the dudes who were out on that tour who I knew were sober. James Hetfield and some of his guitar techs and stuff. Because they had talked to me.
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