Friday, Feb. 21, 2025
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Become a Patron!If Randy Blythe’s first book, Dark Days, was about accountability, his second book, Just Beyond the Light: Making Peace with the Wars Inside Our Head (Grand Central), is about perspective.
In essays ranging from the premature death of a young fan to surfing waves to revering his beloved grandmother, Randy talks about art and music and the messiness of being a creative person.
This was an exciting book pitch. I get 20-30 book pitches a month and when I saw that Randy Blythe, the lead singer of the uber heavy metal/death metal band lamb of god had a new book out, Just Beyond the Light, I lept at the chance to speak with.
Lamb of god makes Metallica sound like Led Zeppelin and I saw lamb of god three times in 2009 when they opened for Metallica.They are intense and Randy’s singing voice is so different than his spoken. He was such a warm and engaging presence and a real joy to talk about how he went about writing this book.
Visit randyblythe.com to learn more and to see dates for his spoken-word tour in support of Just Beyond the Light.
Really great stuff about Randy’s influences, his candor about going about the work, becoming sober (something like 14 years and counting) and the chance encounter that put him on that path, and a lot more.
