Randy Blythe
speaker
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.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Apr 2026 with 1.
Appearances
But these were hard men.
Yeah. But they went and touched the great butcher of Prague. They're like, ha, we're here. And they gave the Czech people hope. Even though the Nazis did bad reprisals, they wiped a whole village out of existence, killed several thousand people. But I wrote a song called Anthropoid, and it's written from the perspective of those dudes in the basement of the church waiting to die.
I was doing it yesterday. I saw a bank. I was like, oh, that looks good.
Or something that happens in my life. I'd never know. I think that is one of the main building blocks of being an artist is just being a noticer, just noticing something that everybody else might pass by and shining light on it. That's what art is.
I mean, when I'm sitting down to write, particularly at the beginning of the process of every day before I develop any sort of flow and get into it, I'm sitting there like, oh my God, I have to find something worth saying. I have to express this in a sentence that will not make me sound like an idiot or cliche. When I'm working on a book, yes.
And lately, more and more, I've been on this book tour averaging five hours of sleep on this tour because a lot of that sucks. That's a lot of flying and then speaking two and a half hours every night. I could not do that. So there hasn't been the room to write. But as soon as I get done with this. I've been feeling the need to do it.
But I think people have a misconception about writing that people sit down and write. They're immediately spilling out these beautiful sentences.
And it's everything is just perfect. Hemingway just sat down. This is great.
100%. Pressfield, genius. His book, War of Art, great book. Don't know him, but shout out to you, Steven Pressfield. And I mentioned him at the book. But for me, it's really about trying to punch above my weight intellectually. And stylistically, I'm trying to write above and beyond my capabilities. I really am. And I think good writers do that.
Not everybody sits around and speaks profound thoughts.
Tripping off the tongue effortlessly.
Not everybody does that. And I think also, I think that's rather indicative of everybody's need to share everything all the time. Blah, blah, blah, blah now. Like with dial it back, maybe you'll say some smarter shit if you think about it a little bit first. So like, that's what writing is for me. It's a process.
If I have a thought about your watch and it reminds me of the way a wave breaks and I want to write a poetic paragraph about it, I just don't sit down and like Harbinger's watch curled to the left, like the way I like to surf. And it doesn't come out perfectly. I have to write and think and look for a path to make it beautiful.
We want to make music. We didn't start making music for other people. And I say this again.
Again and again, we make music for the five dudes in Lamb of God. And it's wonderful that we have fans. And it's wonderful that they have provided us with this living, which is beyond my wildest dreams. And it's wonderful that our music helps people and it brings them joy. It's, oh, that is great. But that's not the reason why we make music.
We make music because we are musicians and there is a need to express yourself through that chosen medium. That's why I write. I hear songs all the time, just like I see pictures or think about possibilities for stories. It goes back to seeing things through the eyes of an artist. I can still remember things from prison that I want to put rhythmically into songs.
Yeah. I can still hear when they would do inspections, they'd bring a stick and they'd come in and you had your metal locker and they would go boom and it would go clink, clink, clink, clink with the stick across the spines on the frame of your bed. So it was always boom, clink, clink, boom, clink, clink, clink, clink, clink, clink, clink, clink.
And really echoey, a lot of natural reverb in this prison. I can still hear that. And I want to put that rhythmically into a song.
hate your show and i'm like i don't take it personally but it's still in there somewhere sure it's in there so when you put yourself into something whether artistic or any project and someone just pooh-poohs it for no reason because people are dicks yeah particularly online on the internet it's removed this impulsive thought filter that's what i call because in real life the impulsive thought filter is there because you might get punched in the mouth if you say some dumb shit
I've seen that in some conversations on the internet before where someone actually bothered to write back, hey, that hurt my feelings. Why are you doing this? And a person would respond, I'm just having a bad day. I'm sorry.
Showing 381–400 of 593 · page 20 of 30
← Previous
Next →