LAMB OF GOD Frontman: 'If You Don't Get Up On That Stage And Deliver, Go Home'

Horror_Brain's Blog recently conducted an interview with LAMB OF GOD frontman Randy Blythe. An excerpt from the chat follows:

Horror_Brain's Blog: Between SLAYER's Unholy Alliance Tour this past summer and MEGADETH's Gigantour which recently wrapped, you're about to head out on the road again in support of "Sacrament". How do you stay focused and motivated night after night?

Randy Blythe: I'll be honest with you, sometimes I wake up and think, 'Oh, man, I really don't want to do this today.' You get worn out, especially as much as we tour and we don't really take any days off. The thing that I try to keep in mind is the punk rock work ethic from bands like BLACK FLAG. They were relentless and played anywhere and everywhere to anyone. I read a story once about Henry Rollins being kinda bummed out at a BLACK FLAG show where the audience turnout wasn't great. His bass player approached him and said, 'Look, it doesn't matter if there is one kid here. He paid money to come see you so you damn well better rock your ass off for that one kid.' So excuses like 'I'm tired', 'I don't feel good', 'I haven't had a day off', blah-blah-blah. Cry me a river. If you don't get up on that stage and deliver, go home.

Horror_Brain's Blog: The behind-the-scenes bonus DVD on "Sacrament" rocked my world. It was a revelation to see the amount of blood, sweat and tears that comprises a kick-ass metal album. Not only that, you decided to record your vocals away from the rest of the band. Why?
Randy Blythe: On future records as well I might try to arrange recording out of town, away from home and the rest of the band because I am the last person in the band to record. So everyone is waiting to hear what I do. I might get one quarter of the way into a song and all of a sudden, if they hear it and don't like what I've done, there's going to be 18 different e-mail conferences going on at once and I haven't even begun real work on the song yet! So it's hard work when everyone's commenting on something that you just dipped your foot into. It was a good deal to get out of town and really wrap my head around the material.

Horror_Brain's Blog: Switching gears, talk to me about the correlation, if any, between extreme music and horror movies.

Randy Blythe: There absolutely is a correlation. Even if you get genre-specific, like death metal for instance, there are bands that are heavily influence by horror movies like CANNIBAL CORPSE, who we toured with. They're huge horror movie freaks. Their album covers and lyrics are construed as so offensive that they're banned in certain countries, even though they explain to people that their music is just like a horror movie. That's where their inspiration comes from. The MISFITS are another band that comes to mind. They're inspired by old, schlocky, B-movies.

Read the entire interview at this location.