Metal Anarchy

Lamb Of God frontman Randy Blythe has taken to social media to share more details regarding the book tour in support of his memoir, “Just Beyond The Light: Making Peace With The Wars Inside Our Head” (February 18). According to him, “it will NOT be appropriate for children.”

Blythe said the following:

“Aloha and happy New Year to everyone! I am very busy grinding away at stories for my upcoming spoken word tour to support my new book, Just Beyond the Light. I am quite excited for the tour, but I do feel the need to clarify something in advance about these shows.

I just got an email from an acquaintance mentioning that they have already bought tickets to one of the shows, and that they will be bringing their son, a lovely young man I have met before. I had to reply and tell them that I am not so sure this is a good idea.

As I have mentioned elsewhere, this is NOT a regular book tour, meaning an author sitting at a stool looking all scholarly and reading a few passages from their book, then sitting at a table and signing copies. I will be reading a tiny excerpt at one point from the book, but the rest of the time I’m onstage I will be attempting to illustrate the major themes of the book via stories from my life.

Just in case any of y’all are completely unaware of my history as a human being, over the years, at times I have lived a very, ahem, “full throttle life”- there is a VERY GOOD reason that I have been clean and sober for 14 years now. This means that some, not all, but SOME of the stories I will be telling will involve heavy, HEAVY alcohol and drug usage, as well as the batshit insane situations that occurred as a result of said substance intake. Some of this will be very funny (at least to me), and some of it will be sad/pathetic— regardless, I’m fairly certain it will NOT be appropriate for children. This is your warning, ok?

I’m not going to be gratuitously foul-mouthed, but I’m not a choir boy, my life hasn’t been a never-ending trip to Sunday school and we aren’t going to be sitting around a campfire at summer camp- it’s adult story telling time, y’all, so leave the kids at home. I don’t want to traumatize your children, and trust me, you don’t want to have to answer the questions your 8 year-old will have after hearing some of this stuff.

Everyone else, I’ll see ya there! Tickets available at WWW.RANDYBLYTHE.NET or hit the LINK IN MY BIO.”

Tour Dates:

02/19 Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts
02/21 Harrisonburg, VA – The Golden Pony
02/23 Somerville, MA – Arts at the Armory
02/25 Montreal, QC – Théâtre Fairmount
02/26 Toronto, ON – Red Room at The Concert Hall
02/28 Lansing, MI – Grewal Hall at 224
03/01 Joliet, IL – The Forge
03/03 Nashville, TN – The Basement East
03/04 Dallas, TX – Granada Theater
03/05 Austin, TX – Parish
03/07 Denver, CO – Meow Wolf
03/09 Seattle, WA – El Corazon
03/12 San Francisco, CA – The Independent
03/13 Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theatre
03/14 San Diego, CA – House of Blues