TEARS MATTER! –
Feb. 25, 2026 – Lamb Of God frontman Randy Blythe was one of metal’s most prominent hellraisers through the late 2000s, and the talismanic singer is the first to admit that his drinking got way out of control by the time the 2010s rolled around. Randy explains that it was while on tour with Metallica …”I had been trying to get sober for a while, fucking around for about four years,” he says. “I wouldn’t drink at home because my wife at the time was sick of my shit – I can’t blame her. And I would wait until we were on tour and then I would get dropped off at the airport, like, two hours early because I couldn’t wait [to drink], and I’d be at the bar immediately, before tour’s even started.”Once the tour with Metallica was underway, Randy’s drinking escalated once again, until he decided enough was enough and reached out to the metal legends’ frontman James Hetfield, who has had his own storied experiences with alcohol issues.
