LAMB OF GOD frontman Randy Blythe hasn’t “ruled out” playing a show in the Czech Republic again if the circumstances were “right.”
Back in 2012, Blythe was arrested and charged with manslaughter for allegedly pushing a 19-year-old fan offstage at a show in the Czech Republic two years earlier.
Randy would go on to spend 37 days in a Prague prison before being found not guilty of the charges in 2013.
Randy discussed the chances of performing in the Czech Republic again during a recent appearance on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk”. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I don’t rule it out. But it would have to be under the right circumstances. I mean, I’m [legally] allowed to go there. But unless things were worked out in advance with certain people, I think it would be rude to go back there. Because if I went back there to play a show, it would be huge news. And there’s a family who’s still missing a son there. So I don’t wish them to be any more upset than they already are; they’ve suffered enough. So, if the circumstances were right and we had their blessing or whatever, I wouldn’t mind going and playing a show and then donating the money to charity or something. But other than that, LAMB OF GOD really has no business going there, if the circumstances aren’t right, ’cause I don’t want to cause anyone any further emotional duress.”
Randy’s time in prison was the influence for such LAMB OF GOD songs as “512”, named after one of his prison cell numbers, and “Still Echoes”, written while he was in Pankrac Prison. Blythe would eventually share his experience in the self-penned memoir “Dark Days”.
The 2022 leg of LAMB OF GOD’s “The Metal Tour Of The Year” with MEGADETH will kick off on Saturday, April 9 in Las Vegas, Nevada and warp up in Allentown, Pennsylvania on Sunday, May 15.
LAMB OF GOD are currently in the studio in California working on their follow up to their 2020 self-titled album with producer Josh Wilbur.