Randy Blythe
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593 appearances
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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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It's like when you're talking to a dying person, you're like, how are you feeling? And I figured if he wanted to move into that, explain to me what was going on with him, then I would listen. And he did. And we had these conversations. frank conversations. And I would, I'd ask him how he was dealing with things and so forth.
So this went, we kept in touch back and forth for a while, mostly via text message. And at one point I asked him, I said, do you want to come and see me? I'll video
chat you into the studio when i'm recording vocals which no one's allowed in the studio when i record vocals not even my own bandmates i just thought it would be neat for this young man to obviously he's an exception to be able to see me doing what i do and because we were his favorite band and he said yeah sure and so then i had the idea i asked him i said
is there anything you want to say to the world or what you want to be remembered by? I could record you saying it or work it into lyrics and then you'll become part of our music on this record and you'll be immortalized on this record. He's like, that's really cool. He said, let me think about it. he never got back to me on it and he died shortly thereafter.
He was such a, he handled his own mortality with such calm and grace, like just this outwardly like calm demeanor. And I'm sure he was afraid at times it's natural, but he did not, He had a very stoic demeanor, man. And it was so inspirational because having been around people who are dying before, an older person, they're coming to the end of their life.
They generally come to a place of acceptance. And like my grandmother, she was 100. But when she went, she was ready, man. She's 100 years old. It's time to go. She'd had a good life. When this young man checked out, he was 33, and the way he handled this was so, for lack of a better term, inspirational.
Because I would like to think that I'm going to face my own imminent end whenever it comes with that sort of level of calm and grace, but I don't know. However, I do know that it's possible because I witnessed it. It just, it also put my own, of course, these brings your own mortality into focus and it made me think about my own. I'm not a spring chicken. I'm 54.
It's all right, though, because all we have is this moment right now. That's it. That's the only thing that exists. I'm seeing here that you lost your sister. I'm very sorry to hear that. I'm glad you were able to have a good conversation with her. What a blessing. And I really cherish my conversations with Wayne and try to take something from it because we're all going to go one day.
And I refuse to ignore that fact. I think trying to hide from that only heightens anxiety. I'm trying to come to a place of acceptance and make the most of the time that I have.
So I really enjoy talking to you, man. And as far as if anyone wants to learn, if anyone wants to learn more about me or my book, the new one is called Just Beyond the Light and it will be out February 18th via Grand Central Publishing slash Hachette. You can order it wherever you order your books from. I'm going on a spoken word tour to support the book.
I'll be telling a bunch of stories from my life to illustrate the themes from the book. It should be pretty funny, a good time. You can go to randyblythe.net, R-A-N-D-Y-B-L-Y-T-H-E. And I have an Instagram and a sub stack, Randonesia. So look me up. Thank you so much.
Fear is a real MF-er. A top shelf grade A son of a bitch that will let you ruin your whole week if you let it run the show. That's a sentence in the book. And in this world of so much information coming at us all the time, it's hard to filter out what we should be worried about and what we shouldn't.
Fear is a real MF-er, a top shelf grade A son of a bitch that will let you ruin your whole week if you let it run the show. That's a sentence in the book. And in this world of so much information coming at us all the time, it's hard to filter out what we should be worried about and what we shouldn't.
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