In a new interview with Billboard, Randy Blythe discussed Lamb Of God’s new album, VII: Sturm Und Drang (which means “storm and stress” in German), and its lyrical content. He said the album deals with Czech culture, and the stress surrounding his manslaughter trial.
The impact of Blythe’s incarceration played a role in most of the songs on the record, including the band’s new single, “Still Echoes,” which is about Pankrac Prison where he was held. Other songs have similar themes as well, including an unspecified track about how imprisonment changes people and another one titled “Torches,” which is about the Czech student, Jan Palach, who set himself on fire, in 1969, to protest the Soviet Union.
Blythe continued by explaining how stress also played a role in the album:
“I didn’t set out to write this record about my perception of how people handle stress and difficulties … but as I was writing, it kind of started coming to me.”
He even said guitarist Mark Morton was also on a similar page:
“I don’t explain his lyrics. But he kind of fell right in line with that. It’s been a stressful fucking time for my band, the last few years, and it’s come out. Hard times make for good metal, I suppose.”
The album will be released in July, and Blythe says it is the “most cohesive record [they’ve] done in a long time,”
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