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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bands on the face of the planet period when we were in australia which is an absolutely amazing place i don't know if you've ever been but it's just so cool and i had money in my bank probably 20 times to live there for a period of time so yes i know australia extremely well Yeah, it's great. It's great. So I had money in my bank account. I was still married at the time. I had my band.
We had fans. We're on tour in Australia opening up for this band that most metal bands could only ever dream of meeting, much less being main support for. And I went out on the night of October 17th, 2010. And I went out with some friends. And I went drinking. Started at an Irish pub in Brisbane. And ended up alone in my hotel room drinking beer. And I drank and drank and drank and drank.
And it stopped working. I was left with nothing but myself. And I was miserable. I'd already... Been through a lot of consequences. I've been to jail for being stupid and drunk. I've been suicidal. I tried to kill myself. I wound up in a mental ward while drunk. I've woken up in the hospital with broken bones on tour because I got drunk and walked off a roof at a house party.
I almost killed myself. I did that drunk. I got divorced once. I got drunk. I did drugs. broke before because I drank everything up. I just drank through all that, right? I just drank through it because I could drink at people. I could drink at my problems. Like this is the fault of everybody else but me. And then on this one night, I drank and drank and drank and drank and it stopped working.
And I woke up on a hotel balcony on October 18th, 2010 in Brisbane, Australia. And I walked out on the balcony and it was sunny day and Brisbane Botanical Gardens were down the street to the left and they're beautiful and they have awesome plants and weird animals. And then across the street was one of my favorite bookstores I'd ever been to. And I love books. I'm a huge nerd.
And then down the street were all these great restaurants. And I looked at all this stuff and I had this feeling that I did not want to exist anymore. I didn't feel like I wanted to kill myself. I just felt I just wanted to cease being, period. I felt utterly empty. And I'm on tour with Metallica. You should not feel that way. You should feel like this is a huge part of my career.
I felt completely empty. And I finally came to the realization, maybe what other people have been telling me, maybe there's a bit of truth to it. Maybe I ought to try and quit drinking and things will get better. So I looked on this table, on this balcony, and I saw all the beer bottles from the night before. And because I'm OCD about things, I had arranged them extremely neatly.
All the labels were facing the same way. And they were in a very neat row on this little table. And I looked at these beer bottles and I realized they were a metaphor for my life because I had become nothing more but an empty container to pour alcohol into. And while everything on the outside of my life, like I had a job, had a wife, had money, everything looked orderly like those beer bottles.
But all it would take would just be a little push and everything's broken. Everything falls and shatters. So. It was not a big dramatic thing like you. It wasn't like I woke up under a bridge in a trench coat, you know, clutching a bottle of rock gut wine with no money in my pocket. I just woke up on a hotel balcony and wanted to cease to exist. And I'm like, I have to try something different.
And I haven't had a drink or any drugs since that day.
The entire continent is nailed down by pubs. There's one on every corner.
Yeah, sure. If you're a guy, Jean, you're over there doing business, but that's interesting that the relationship of alcohol and the Japanese culture.
corporate culture because you'll be in tokyo or osaka on a weeknight and you'll see these businessmen in these suits just completely trashed unable to walk and it is my understanding that within that what they call the salary man culture if the boss says we're going out drinking then you are expected to go out to drink
with the boss and they get it in they get it in and i think they have a different view of the state of intoxication as well because i've heard that from several different places if you're drunk and the boss makes you come out and and drink with you and you say or do something rude or embarrassing It's not talked about the next day. Oh, he was drunk. That's okay.
So it's like a pressure valve, I think. There's tightly constrained social roles. There's many beautiful things about Japanese culture. I don't know if you've been there as well, but it's one of my favorite places on earth. Yeah. they have a saying, the nail that sticks up gets hammered down. I don't think I'd make it too long as a native Japanese guy.
Wow. That's beautiful country as well, man. We've been there two or three times now. Crazy shows there for us.
Well, that's the thing. It's trying to numb the chaos. It was, I keep on talking about the voices in my head. I'm not schizophrenic. It's not literally like I had someone saying this or that or the other. And just speaking of the constant state of emotional agitation within me and upset at the fact that the world is
continued to behave in a manner that i did not see as acceptable so i would drink a drink to numb that and but it was also numbing and dumbing me and i got away with that for a long time also because i believed in the cultural myth of the alcoholic slash
addict writer slash musician slash artist artist that's a great cultural myth and some of my favorite writers were these masculine dudes like Hemingway and uh Hunter S Thompson and Bukowski like every other angst riddled 20 year old male or whatever I love these writers and I still do so I did all the things that these great writers did like I drank and they but
Did a respectable amount of womanizing and even got some fistfights from time to time. I did all the stuff that those great writers were doing, except for the writing part. Right? I'm practicing to become an artist. So I bought into that cultural mythos of the damaged artist, the alcoholic artist.
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