HOW DO YOU QUIT DRINKING?
From questions about alcoholism to shaving his bonce, you guys ran the gamut when we asked you to interview Lamb Of God frontman Randy Blythe
WORDS: ALI COOPER • PICTURES: TRAVIS SHINN
LAMB OF GOD’S Randy Blythe enjoyed his spring lockdown a little too much. In between surf sessions, the screamer-in-chief took to the deserted beach near his home to answer your burning questions on non-alcoholic beers and his punk roots before heading back to shred some waves.
Given your roots and love of punk, what was it that drew you to Burn The Priest/Lamb Of God?
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“We started as a punk band with kinda metal riffs and for the first few years I refused to refer to us as a metal band because we weren’t. I wound up in a metal band by accident because we just became more and more metal, but I fucking hate labels anyway. When you think of modern hardcore now, the lines between metal and hardcore are blurred, everything has become one big crossover. If you look at the Big 4 of thrash, all of them listened to punk rock. Metal as it is now with the speed and aggression would not exist without punk rock and the people who created the metal we play will tell you the same thing. The speed didn’t come from Jethro Tull, it comes from punk rock!”