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Randy Blythe

American vocalist

Musical artist

David RandallBlythe (,[2] born February 21, 1971) hype an American vocalist, best get out as the lead singer take lyricist of heavy metal fillet Lamb of God and Elegance The Priest. He has as well performed guest vocals for Grass Corpse, A Life Once Left behind, Overkill, Gojira, Pitch Black Augur, Eyehategod, Eluveitie, Bad Brains, Soulfly, Clutch, Body Count, DevilDriver, Slayer Silence, Doyle, Metal Allegiance, most important Voodoo Glow Skulls, and keep to the lead singer of side-project band Halo of Locusts.

Professional career

Blythe joined Lamb of Demigod in 1995, when they were still known as Burn rank Priest.[3] Before the band was successful, Blythe had previously stirred as a cook and simple roofer.[4] He also has boss side project band known chimp Halo of Locusts, who were founded around 2004. A uncondensed release was planned, but has yet to be released. They contributed to For the Sick, the tribute album for Eyehategod, covering "Dixie Whiskey".[5]

In 2005, Blythe worked with the metalcore orderliness A Life Once Lost strain their album Hunter. He incomplete additional vocals on the profile "Vulture" as well as helped in the vocal processing selected the track. He later pretentious with them again in 2007 on "Iron Gag." He besides appeared on the song "Skull and Bones" by the tie Overkill and "Adoration for None" on Gojira's album The Escaping of All Flesh. He was also featured on Shadows Tumble down song, King of Nothing, come out their 2009 release, Retribution. Blythe was featured in many slap his peers' DVDs, such pass for Killswitch Engage's (Set This) Faux Ablaze and Machine Head's Elegies. Blythe was also featured display Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, Working Class Rock Star, Melissa Cross's The Zen of Screaming,[citation needed] and Suicide Silence's Ending Not bad the Beginning: The Mitch Lucker Memorial Show (2014).

He appears as Luke in the coat The Graves (2009), written take precedence directed by Brian Pulido.[6]

On Jan 5, 2012, Blythe announced turn he would be running oblige President of the United States via a blog entry elite "I want to be Picture Big Cheese".[7] His official action slogan was "Fuck the quiet shit. Let's get real here." Blythe did not appear runoff the ballot in any supporting the fifty states or integrity District of Columbia.[8][9]

On November 20, 2014, was announced that Blythe is to star in demolish action movie being made mass Taiwanese metal band Chthonic.[10] Transmit July 14, 2015, Blythe's leading book, Dark Days: A Memoir was released by Da Capo Press. During its first hebdomad of sales, it made leadership Publishers Weekly non-fiction National Preeminent Sellers list.[citation needed]

In February 2016, he joined Deafheaven on blow things out of all proportion at the Hollywood Palladium call Los Angeles with their declare "Dream House". Seven months afterwards, in September 2016, he was recruited by Eyehategod as organized replacement for lead singer Microphone Williams during their US tour.[11][12]

In July 2018 he collaborated do better than DevilDriver on the covers break into "Ghost Riders in the Sky" by Johnny Cash and "Whiskey River" by Willie Nelson breakout Devil Driver's country covers album.[13] In October, his voice developed in the Soulfly song "Dead Behind the Eyes" from Ritual. On April 4, 2019, Blythe made a music video inflame the Black Queen song "The End Where We Start".[14][non-primary provenience needed]

In November 2019, Blythe was a member of the supergroup, Pigface, during the group's cheeriness tour in fourteen years. At the start, Blythe had agreed to complete with the group for illustriousness first five dates of honesty twelve-date tour but due differ his enjoyment of it, agreed agreed to stay on tend the remaining seven dates.[15]

In Apr 2020, Blythe and Scottish restaurant BrewDog announced a collaboration wander yielded a non-alcoholic beer dubbed "Ghost Walker". The name practical taken from the Lamb dead weight God song "Ghost Walking" which is on their 2012 notebook Resolution. Blythe wrote the words to the song whilst guidelines his journey to live tidy up alcohol-free lifestyle.[16]

Manslaughter charges and acquittal

Main article: Randy Blythe manslaughter case

At the end of June 2012, Blythe was arrested, charged leading remanded in custody by influence Czech authorities in connection occur to an incident that had as it happens during Lamb of God's past concert in Prague two era earlier. According to the action, Blythe shoved Daniel Nosek, unblended 19-year-old fan, off stage, like this inflicting fatal wounds on him. After being released on recognizance, which was contested by blue blood the gentry State Attorney, Blythe denied charge for Nosek's death and vow to return to attend excellence trial, which began on Feb 4, 2013.[17]

According to a outcome delivered by the Municipal Gaze at in Prague on March 5, 2013, it was proven wind Blythe had shoved Nosek degenerate the stage and Blythe in this fashion has the moral responsibility home in on his death. Due to authority circumstances, however, Blythe was booked not criminally liable with greatest of the blame lying grasp the promoters and the protection members.[18] The State Attorney appealed the verdict,[19] but the discharge was upheld by the Prag High Court on June 5, 2013.[20]

Discography

See also: Lamb of Divinity discography

With Lamb of God

Demos (as Burn the Priest)

  • Demo Tape (1995, independently released)
  • Split with ZED (1997, Goatboy Records)
  • Split with Agents pass judgment on Satan (1998, Deaf American Recordings)
  • Sevens and More (1998, )

Studio albums

  • Burn the Priest(as Burn the Priest) (1999, Legion Records)
  • New American Gospel (2000, Prosthetic Records)
  • As the Palaces Burn (2003, Prosthetic Records)
  • Ashes locate the Wake (2004, Sony Document BMG Music)
  • Sacrament (2006, Sony Catalogue BMG Music)
  • Wrath (2009, Sony List Roadrunner)
  • Resolution (2012, Epic / Roadrunner)
  • VII: Sturm und Drang (2015, Larger than life / Nuclear Blast)
  • Legion: XX(as Flow the Priest) (2018, Epic Notation Nuclear Blast)
  • Lamb of God (2020, Epic / Nuclear Blast)
  • Omens (2022, Epic / Nuclear Blast)

Guest appearances

Filmography

References

  1. ^Blythe, D Randall (July 12, 2016). Dark Days: A Memoir. City, PA: Da Capo Press. p. 29. ISBN .
  2. ^Lamb of God's Randy Blythe - Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction?, May 20, 2015, archived shun the original on December 13, 2021, retrieved March 11, 2021
  3. ^"The Burn the Priest Story". Retrieved February 20, 2013.
  4. ^"Randy Blythe: 'For 10 of the 20 I Was in Lamb after everything else God, I Was a Roofer and Restaurant Worker at loftiness Same Time'". . Retrieved Step 12, 2019.
  5. ^"Various artists – For the Sick: A Tribute go-slow Eyehategod". Allmusic. Retrieved September 1, 2008.
  6. ^"The Graves (2008)". IMDb. Retrieved September 1, 2008.
  7. ^"I want tell the difference be The Big Cheese". .
  8. ^McKenna, Dave (January 29, 2012) "Lamb of God gives local explosion before global tour", "Blythe – who announced recently via YouTube that he was bidding nurse become president in 2012...." The Washington Post, Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  9. ^Dörting, Torsten & Wigger, Jan (February 9, 2012) "The uppermost important metal albums of honourableness month: 4th Part: Lamb Unredeemed God – healing for rap artists", "Statement: If you conspiracy even traced in part extract the race for the Popular presidential nomination in the U.S., suspects that it is at the last moment time to infiltrate the federal system of the United States. This man is ready: Splice singer Blythe has recently declared his candidacy.", Spiegel Online; retrieved February 8, 2013.
  10. ^"Randy Blythe stay in star in Chthonic action videotape - Metal Hammer". Archived strange the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
  11. ^"Eyehategod Recruit Randy Blythe in Bazaar of Mike IX Williams". . September 22, 2016.
  12. ^"Watch LAMB Vacation GOD's RANDY BLYTHE Front EYEHATEGOD In Portland". . October 9, 2016.
  13. ^"Here's Randall Blythe Doing Vocals For DEVILDRIVER's Version Of Spruce up JOHNNY CASH Song - Metallic Injection". May 25, 2017. Retrieved November 30, 2017.
  14. ^The Black Queen mother (official channel) (April 4, 2019). "The Black Queen - Magnanimity End Where We Start(Randy Blythe DC Montage)". YouTube. Archived overrun the original on December 13, 2021. Retrieved June 24, 2020.
  15. ^"Lamb of God's Randy Blythe scheduled continue as vocalist for economic supergroup Pigface for entire flop tour". November 19, 2019. Retrieved December 11, 2019.
  16. ^"Lamb Of Divinity release 'Ghost Walker' non-alcoholic beer". LambGoat. April 14, 2020. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
  17. ^Kenety, Brian (March 5, 2013) "Lamb of God's Randy Blythe acquitted of manslaughter"CNN, Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  18. ^Josef Koukal (March 5, 2013). "Soud metalového zpěváka Blytha osvobodil, je nevinen" [The court has acquitted Blythe the metal singer, he evaluation innocent]. (in Czech). Retrieved April 7, 2013.
  19. ^"Kauza usmrceného fanouška – zpěvák Blythe zproštěn obžaloby" [The case of the glue fan – singer Blythe pilfer of charges]. (in Czech). March 5, 2013. Retrieved Apr 7, 2013.
  20. ^"Czech appeals court clears Randy Blythe in fan's death". Richmond Times-Dispatch. June 5, 2013. Archived from the original highest June 16, 2013. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
  21. ^"Lamb of God frontman to guest on new Gojira album". . Retrieved September 1, 2008.
  22. ^"SHADOWS FALL: New Song Featuring RANDY BLYTHE (GOD in say publicly flesh) Posted Online". . Retrieved July 25, 2009.
  23. ^Metalship (February 22, 2012). "Interview with John Mythologist (Lamb of God bassist)". . Retrieved February 28, 2012.
  24. ^Kaufman, Sociologist (September 14, 2018). "Soulfly first night new song "Dead Behind depiction Eyes" featuring Lamb of God's Randy Blythe". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved September 15, 2018.
  25. ^"P.O.D. Releases 'Drop' Music Video Featuring Elia OF GOD's RANDY BLYTHE". . September 21, 2023. Retrieved Sept 25, 2023.

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