Randy Blythe
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593 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 15 Apr
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You know?
And I think that's actually a huge problem in our culture now.
Meditating on death, I think for some people it seems depressing or whatever.
And for me, it's just maintaining a firm grasp on reality and trying to... It encourages me to make the most of what time I have here, you know?
It really does because...
It's fleeting.
And the more you become aware of mortality, the less time you have to waste on frivolous things.
Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. 2010, we were in Australia on tour with Metallica. And I woke up one day and I looked out on my hotel room balcony and I was like, I don't want to live anymore. It wasn't like I was suicidal. I just wanted to be erased from existence. James Hetfield and some of his guitar techs, who I knew were sober, they had talked to me.
Dude, you might want to dial it back a little bit. And then I was like, maybe you stop drinking and doing drugs, James. your life might get better.
I'm just astounded by constantly. I realize that we're heading into legacy territory, and it's super rare. A lot of the great bands that I listened to when I was younger lasted five, six years.
But they're eternal in your mind and in your sort of emotional connection to this music because it's so important to you.
Because everyone has their different sort of... It's just extreme metal, just descendant of thrash or whatever. Just extreme metal.
Better now than we ever did before.
And it's rare. That's another thing.
I think we started as such a sort of cantankerous group of gentlemen, combative. And over the years, we've learned, I mean, not 100%, but we've learned more and more to shelve the ego. This is my way. I want this. and really think about the greater good. So we have a saying in Lamb of God, which is, better is better.
That's a hard pill to swallow if you've written something that you think is genius and everybody else is, I don't know, dude. But an old saying from writing, often attributed to Tennessee Williams, you must be willing to murder your darlings.
Yeah, I think you mentioned that. I listened to the, was it the James Patterson episode? He was talking about that. Yeah, I love that.
I'm just coming off this almost month-long spoken word tour for my book, and I was telling stories, not in the book, but that relay the main theme of the book, which for me is perspective. And I practiced very hard before I left, and there were certain things. It's not a stand-up comedy show, but it's close at times.
Stories, yeah. I'm a pretty good storyteller. And there were parts that I was like, this is so funny. This is going to kill so hard. And it did not land one single time. I'm friends with some professional stand-up comedians. I'm like, dudes, what is going on? They're like, sometimes stuff just doesn't land.
Yeah. Or perhaps stuff that I find funny, other people find horrifying.
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