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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But don't take that out on me. So that impulsive thought filter is not there. That being said, when you put something out, like you put yourself in this, I put out a song or something. If someone doesn't like it and they're just poo-pooing it out of nowhere, there's a little sting.
There's a little sting. But the way I look at it is... I come from a band where we were playing on the floor of squats and basements and in bars and stuff. If you've never had a beer bottle thrown at your head while someone yells, you suck, that puts things in perspective, okay? That's a little bit more real life than, I don't like your show on Instagram or whatever.
And also, I can't remember who said this. I've read it a few times recently. Why would you pay attention to someone commenting something if they're a person you wouldn't take advice from.
And I think about the people I would take advice from that I value as friends, advisors, mentors. None of those people would ever go on the internet and talk shit.
And so the trolls and the thoughtless people, I think they're really ultimately only damaging themselves because they're unable to deal with conflict in the real world.
Oh, I've been a few riots over the years.
We were in Thailand, and we were in Bangkok, and there was the red shirts protest, I believe, that was going on.
Thailand is a monarchy, and the king and queen of Thailand are very revered. The new king is a weird dude. Look, this was the old king.
You don't talk smack on the king or the queen. Like, I have friends who, expatriates who live in Thailand. I met them in Bangkok. And when they referred to something weird the king was doing, they called him Elvis. Where if they were like, we don't like that Elvis did this, they don't want anybody to know that they were talking about the king.
It's real serious there.
So... There was some political strife going on to where these people had come into Bangkok, into the financial district, I guess, and had taken it over, and they were drawing buckets of human blood, like people were donating blood, and they were throwing it on, I think it was the prime minister's house or something, just buckets of blood.
In protest. And they were there for like a month. Man. And we landed in the middle of all this. And I'm like, what?
Yeah, exactly. Dear friends of ours. And... They were still peaceful. It was peaceful. Then we went on stage that night. And two minutes before we went on stage, the government had enough of these protesters who had taken over all of downtown Bangkok. And they were like, okay, martial law is in effect. And you got to go home or you're going to go to jail. And nobody left our show.
We played the show, whatever. And so then I, to my friends, I'm like, I want to go downtown and see what's happening. They're like, are you sure? Can't get enough of foreign prison. This is before I went to the other one. I'm like, yeah, I want to go down there, man. I want to see what's going down.
And I went down there and all these people were gearing up and they had homemade armor and like all this crazy stuff. And I got pictures with several of these people. They gave me a red headband for their cause or whatever. They're like, I have it somewhere at home. And then it started kicking off. As I was leaving, it wasn't too bad the first night.
But as we were flying out the next day, all of a sudden, like 37 people were dead. Oh, geez. Including an American, I think Japanese journalist. The cops just.
So it popped off real hard.
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Thank you so much. I'm first and foremost, a music fan, and I've gotten to know almost all the bands I listened to growing up and in my twenties. And it's just so cool for me to hear those stories as well. So I'm glad to talk to you, man.
See, I've never seen them. But I waited for their new record to come out. I heard the first two singles. I had it pre-ordered. And then I waited until the night it came out. came out and I got in my truck and I drove down this back road and listened to the whole record in its entirety. And it was just a magic moment.
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