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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When I record, I need everything in the can's ear bleedingly loud to help emulate the sort of vibe I have with my band. Because we're not a quiet band.
My ears go... Oh, that kind of physically painful. Yes. I have a headache. My throat hurts after you've done it. I wake up every day. My voice is naturally pretty deep when I'm recording. It would be great for like sexy voiceover. And I will hear a fragment of a lyric that I recorded the day before. When I lay down to sleep, I'm hearing the beep.
But then I'm also hearing my own voice screaming a part of a lyric again and And again and again.
It's not good. It's a physical process for me. It really is. I don't enjoy it.
Right. I always have a hard time getting my voice to do what it does live until one day my producer was like, let's try a trick. And he put a filter on what I heard. in my ears and not what was going to tape, but the filter that I was hearing my voice, he made it sound like a crappy club PA because that's the world I come from. And then all of a sudden my voice went bling.
Yeah. Also because most of the time when you're recording an album, our last album were recorded here in LA at Henson Studios and a lot of it was live.
Yeah, it's a legendary studio. Charlie Chaplin owned. Yeah, that's right.
So we did it with a great live room and I wasn't in the room with my guys while they were playing, but I was in a booth and I could see them. And there's an energy that happens between us live. It's just so much different. Now, if I'm singing to a tape, my dudes aren't there. I don't feel this visceral connection to them in the music as it's being made that I do on stage.
I really feel it, and it makes it, I don't know, it makes it just so much better. I hate singing to tape.
The lights can definitely blind you, but I'm very well aware of the audience. I'm hyper aware of how the music is going over with the audience. It's my job to make sure, to facilitate the audience's good time. Sure. As a front man. Not to be egotistical, but it's your job to make sure that these people are enjoying the music.
It involves encouragement at times. So I'm very much aware of the audience's status.
No. Not really the case. That's what my first book, Dark Days, is about. And it's a 500-page book. But basically in 2010, Lamb of God played a concert in Prague. Their security was non-existent. Kids were on stage off and on the whole time. And very dangerous. Small club. Our equipment was ready to fall on people. We played that show. We're like, thank God that's over. We came back
Two years later, we flew from Norway to Prague, landed in Prague airport, got off the plane, and they diverted myself and my band into another room. And in the room, there were five or six dudes in, like, mask balaclavas with machine guns and stuff. Three big, huge, like, Slavic men.
Yeah, they look like Dolph from the Rocky movie. Yeah, sure that these plainclothes detectives and in this woman This woman who was the head detective handed me a piece of paper Saying that I was being charged with the equivalent of manslaughter because a young man they said I purposely Pushed a young man off the stage attacked him. He fell hit his head went into a coma died a month later and
And we had no idea anyone had been hurt.
No clue. And the American government had been contacted about this by the Czech government two years previously. And the American government said, this is nonsense. We're not going to cooperate. But the American government never let me know.
I would have gone back there to handle this. It's not a parking ticket.
So I'm in total shock. what are you talking about? This makes no sense. I thought it was a mistake. And then I went to a prison in Prague for 37 days.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. And so they granted me bail, which was almost half a million dollars. We borrowed that from the record label. And then unlike America, where when you pay bail, you're free to go there. We paid bail. The prosecuting attorney did not like it. So he objected. So they doubled the bail. So we're pushing towards half a million dollars.
Luckily, some rather wealthy friends of ours were like, we'll loan you guys the other half, which they did.
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