Metal Hammer UK

HOW DO YOU QUIT DRINKING?

LAMB OF GOD’S Randy Blythe enjoyed his spring lockdown a little too much. In between surf sessions, the screamer-in-chief took to the deserted beach near his home to answer your burning questions on non-alcoholic beers and his punk roots before heading back to shred some waves.

Given your roots and love of punk, what was it that drew you to Burn The Priest/Lamb Of God?

@HughWalker15 (Twitter)

“We started as a punk band with kinda metal riffs and for the first few years I refused to refer to us as a metal band because we weren’t. I wound up in a metal band by accident because we just became more and more metal, but I fucking hate labels anyway. When you think of modern hardcore now, the lines between metal and hardcore are blurred, everything has become one big crossover.

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