Randy Blythe
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 15 Apr
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And then I got bailed out and I went back to America and immediately went on tour in order to pay for all the lawyers. And then six months later, went back to trial in the Czech Republic and I was found not guilty.
Yes.
Because the family of this young man who died They never attacked me in the press. The Czech press attacked me, particularly this one tabloid newspaper painted me as this marauding American Viking come to murder people or whatever. They said printed all sorts of nonsense. He said I'd kicked a woman to death in the head. All sorts of just made just made up nonsense.
And then just paying me as a really bad guy to the point where my attorneys had to threaten to sue the paper. My Czech attorneys did. But the family of this young man who tragically died, they deserved answers. All they knew is that their son went to go see my band. He was injured somehow, and he died a month later.
It's horrible. And I, in my first marriage, I lost the only child we had. She died shortly after birth due to a heart defect. And I have empathy for those parents. I know what it's like. Probably even worse for them, because he had lived.
18 or 19. And my daughter only lived less than a day.
Well, you're a parent. So the only thing these parents knew was that their son had gone to see my band. And then this sort of rumors of me attacking him and all this other stuff. Yeah. felt honor bound to try and give them the answers that I could to the best of my ability not to hide in America like a coward. Sure. Because their son is dead. That's horrifying.
And B, although I know I was sober that night, I know because I've been writing about it.
in a journal also memory is a tricky thing and memory it's not like people think we have this hard drive that all you gotta do is press a button and everything is replayable that's not how memory works it's like recreating a puzzle almost every time you remember something i learned a lot about the science of memory during this so i needed to make sure that if i was in fact culpable here.
If I had done something that I did not remember or had falsely construed in my mind, if that came out in a trial, then I need to be held responsible for my actions because I ran away from my problems for so long in alcohol. But I was a sober man then.
If I am not willing to take responsibility or at least look at the possibility to examine myself and what may come out, evidence I'm unaware of, then I am not being responsible.
accountable in my life and if I can convince myself that I am not accountable in this one area just because it's scary because it's scary then it's only a hop skip and a jump for me to convince myself that I'm not accountable in all sorts of areas and from there it's very easy for me to be like you've been sober a long time maybe you can just take a drink and it'll be alright I see and then if I hadn't gone back I'd be dead now one way or the other
Yes, because I would have either drank myself to death, I know it, or I would have killed myself because I couldn't look at myself in the mirror.
The prison I went to was called Penkratz Prison. It's in Prague. At the time, I believe it was 127 or 137 years old.
Well, it was. For the first half of it, they put you in one tier to see if you're depressed and suicidal, supposedly.
I talked to this one guy who spoke English. He's like, look, the doctor is going to come for psychological development. When they ask you what you think, do not tell them you do not like it here because they will keep you in the basement longer. He told me that when they ask him, what do you think of the presence of art? He said, what the f***? Pardon my French.
What do you think I think about this? It sucks. And they're like, you're depressed. Maybe you ought to stay down here in isolation a little bit longer. So it was very heavy. I love the history. Just these walls, the stories they could tell. The stories that prison can tell are from 1939, I think, to 1945. And the Nazis had it. Oh, geez.
They were putting Czech dissidents, black marketers, some Jews, I think. These political... undesirables there and they were executing them by firing squad. Then that got too expensive. So they started hanging them and then that took too long. So they installed a guillotine. And so in about a year and a half, they executed over 2000 people. I think it was by the guillotine.
The guillotine was down the hall from me. It was still in there? Yeah, I didn't get to see it, but they keep it there because at the end of the war, the Nazis took it and threw it in the Vltava River in order to hide the evidence of their atrocities. But the Czech divers went and got it and brought it back. Good for them. And the head executioner of that prison...
maybe it was even in the 2000s, he applied for his retirement benefits from the German army in Germany.
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