Why Randy Blythe Doesn't 'Get Nervous About Going on Stage'

Even the most important and finest rock and steel superstars – resembling Ozzy Osbourne and Eddie Van Halen – can get a bit nervous earlier than enjoying in entrance of giant crowds. That stated, Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe isn’t one in every of them; in actual fact, he’s “exhilarat[ed]” by the “adrenaline junkie aspect of it.”

On a newly uploaded episode of Knotfest’s The Electric Theater with Clown – posted on July 19 and hosted by Slipknot percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan – Blythe spoke about his perspective on performing on stage.

Specifically, Crahan introduced up the “fear that we’re addicted to of the unknown, of our dream” earlier than clarifying that he’s “never nervous to get one stage.” In response, Blythe rejoiced, “I don’t get shook at all,” including:

I can bear in mind the final time – and I wasn’t actually scared; I used to be simply greatly surprised. The first was the primary time we performed the principle stage at Download [Festival], which was I do not even know what number of years in the past. And I bear in mind being within the automobile, and so they took me across the racetrack to the stage and I got here round after which I simply noticed that huge crowd. I used to be like, “Woah!’ And the driver was like, “Are you all right?” And I used to be like, “Yeah, man. That’s a lot of people.” And he was like, “Yeah. Yeah, it is.” And then I used to be cool.

He continued: “It had been years before that that I had been even slightly nervous about going on stage. I don’t get nervous about going on stage at all.” From there, he touched upon Crahan’s comment relating to worry, saying, “I think that’s really insightful.”

Blythe elaborated:

It takes me again to why we began doing this within the first place. Performing, you recognize, getting – being keen to get on stage and take this factor that we have created and current it to different individuals. And there’s that form of — I do not know — virtually adrenaline junkie side to it. Particularly to start with, if you’re simply beginning, you are like, “Okay, here we go. This is some shit we’ve worked on. and now it’s time to put it out there. This is where the rubber meets the road.”

And it is exhilarating if you do it, you recognize? Utterly exhilarating, and I believe that side of worry – past my love for simply creating artwork typically – I believe that is tremendous insightful. And I believe that’s one motive why I get pleasure from doing different issues, as a result of there’s that side.

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Crahan agreed, doubling down on his prior sentiment:

We’re all the time looking – I might imagine {that a} true artist . . . [is] all the time looking and [is] all the time going to look and we are able to’t dwell with out that worry as a result of that worry is what the dream is. [It’s] so untouchable, it appears, and even when we expect we’ve acquired it, we haven’t as a result of we’re nonetheless looking. . . . I make it obligatory that I take one thing from each efficiency.

You can hearken to the total interview beneath.

Last weekend noticed Slipknot headline the 2023 version of the Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival, and you may take a look at loads of images of the three-day occasion right here. Slipknot followers have additionally given the band’s mysterious new member a nickname.

As for Blythe, he proved his fearlessness in one other means earlier this month by reducing off his trademark dreadlocks and revealing a freshly shaved head. Naturally, the band posted footage from the July 12 present (in Canada) to Instagram, garnering a variety of reactions from followers.

On that observe, Lamb of God are nonetheless embarking on their summer time tour in help of their newest LP, Omens (which Loudwire named as one in every of 2022’s finest rock and steel albums). You can take a look at the remaining tour dates right here and buy tickets right here.