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Lamb Of God is what is happening with metal and they are not going anywhere. On
the heels of their massive breakthrough CD, Ashes Of The Wake, they have toured
massively. On one of those stops I had the privilege to sit down with Randy and
get his thoughts on the war, LOG itself and most anything that came to mind.
Randy is an interesting individual and if you spend five minutes with him you
will see why.
Jeffrey Easton interviewing Randy Blythe of Lamb Of God.
Jeff: You are playing a small club tonight as opposed to the arena you are
supposed to be playing. Is that a let down?
Randy: No not really because arenas are boring.
Jeff: Why are they boring?
Randy: Because there is nothing to do in an arena. Arenas are usually in the
middle of nowhere so you can’t go anywhere.
Jeff: How did OZZFest go for you?
Randy: It went very well for us and that could have been construed as boring
since we were in a parking lots in the middle of nowhere but since there were so
many bands there was something to do always.
Jeff: A lot of people getting turned on to LOG?
Randy: Yeah but we brought a lot of heads to the table.
Jeff: You guys did the Fear Factory run to.
Randy: That was incredible. I would say 80 or 85 percent of the shows were sold
out. We were out with Bodom on that tour to and I hope we never tour with them
again because I will probably die if I do because they can party like nobody I
know.
Jeff: Last time I saw Alexi he had a broken arm and he described the accident. I
do not know if he was drunk but.
Randy: What you are saying is that you do not know if he was sober. Drunk is a
normal existence for those guys.
Jeff: What is your opinion on censorship, like what you experienced with being
kicked out of the Forum.
Randy: I am stoked because I had more press and I had a sold out show in Pomona
at the Glasshouse.
Jeff: I am sure you are making more money as well.
Randy: Yeah, there was a bigger guarantee and we were interviewed on CNN as
well.
Jeff: Ashes Of The Wake has been out almost a year now, how well has it done?
Randy: It has done about 180,000 so far which is bullshit for a major label, we
are not Spears but for music of our nature it is phenomenal.
Jeff: It just shows your fans want to own the album and not download it.
Randy: Yeah, we are in arenas. I should be in a garage, I am a redneck idiot
from Virginia but instead I am in front of 10,000 kids a night.
Jeff: For those who have not discovered the CD, tell them about it. I know you
guys are very political.
Randy: I would not call us a “political” band but there are political issues
on it. We write about what pisses us off basically and the current
administration does that. The war that is going on in the Mid East over oil is
fucked up. I think that the people who fucked up the world trade center should
not get away with it, they should be annihilated. Going to Iraq and saying we
are there for freedom is bullshit, we are there for oil and whoever does not
believe that is a fucking idiot in my mind and I have nothing else to say to
them. We are not there “Building democracy in the desert”, that is not the
way it rolls, we are there for oil.
Jeff: There is a lot of it.
Randy: Yes, there is a lot of it. There are other countries in the world that
suffer under horrid dictatorships but they do not have anything we want.
Jeff: There is one just south of us.
Randy: Yeah, there is one south of here and we do not give a fuck.
Jeff: Cuba is just off of Florida’s shore and they suffer under a wretched
dictatorship.
Randy: They do not have oil, just a little Island without oil so what do we
care. It is just big money, big war big bullshit, war makes money.
Jeff: But the war is over.
Randy: Oh, I forgot, thanks for clueing me in. There are not people dying in the
desert still. I totally forgot all about that. It is to the point that politics
make me sick.
Jeff: I know when I talk to relatives in other states they tell me how cheap the
gas is and I see how it is here in Cali.
Randy: It is incredible here and that is just for regular, it is insane. We are
kicking the shit out of the Middle East and taking our own oil, should we not be
getting it cheaper?
Jeff: Back to the CD, The title track is an instrumental, why did you guys do
that?
Randy: Well, we did not plan on doing an instrumental but I am glad we did. That
song is so complex I tried to arrange vocals to it and I even asked my guys to
help but is so epic it just stayed an instrumental.
Jeff: Where did the voiceovers come from?
Randy: I believe our drummer got that off of a news source and he is talking
about the stuff that we are discussing now.
Jeff: Ashes has been released as a dual disc now, can you tell us about it?
Randy: I have no idea as I have not seen it yet. I barely understand what a dual
disc is, I can barely work a VCR. I am a techno boob. I have an ipod and a
laptop and I do not know why because I can barely turn the things on.
Jeff: You have one DVD out already with Terror And Hubris but now a second one
entitled Killadelphia, enlighten us with this one.
Randy: It is two shows that we did at the Trocadero in Philly. We love Philly,
it is where we started our fan base growing, where we got attention. We put the
two shows together to make one full strong set from those two nights. The extras
are real fistfights, some skydiving, and a lot of backstage stuff. Just showing
us being silly because we are. It will be a good time, it will give you a good
idea about how it is being in a band. People think it is always a good time and
it really is not. Ok, it beats working as a roofer or at a restaurant, which I
have done both but it is not always Motley Crue times. We are just trying to
show the true realities of being on the road. It will be well worth the price.
Jeff: At least you like each other.
Randy: No we don’t, we hate each other pretty much but it is ok.
Jeff: The Burn The Priest CD was finally reissued. What did it take to get the
rights back to this and put it out?
Randy: We bought the rights several years ago from my old friend Mikey Brosan.
He started a record label just to put out my record because he believed in it.
We paid him cost for the record and he is probably ruing that day about right
now. We had no idea that a major label would ever put it out. We did not pay
that much for this record, I think we did it for 2,000. We did have it remixed
and remastered by Collin Richardson, who is well known in the metal community
and it has new liner notes by Steve Austin. It is the same record it just sounds
bigger and better.
Jeff: Why did you change the cover?
Randy: We did not but they did put a black cover on it and if you open it up the
original artwork is in there. We have no idea why they did that but it may be
because it is on Sony. It is surprising enough that Sony is putting out a CD by
a band called Burn The Priest.
Jeff: What’s next for Lamb Of God:
Randy: We are spending the summer headlining the Sounds Of The Underground tour,
which will be a lot of fun, and then we will be going to Australia and Japan.
Jeff: Thanks for your time, I will see you guys again when you come back this
summer.
Randy: No problem.
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