If anyone still thinks Lamb Of God frontman Randy Blythe is the type to \u2018stay in his lane\u2019, they haven\u2019t been paying attention for the last three decades.<\/p>\n
Blythe has posted a blistering new Substack<\/a> entry titled \u2018All The Horrors Happening Around Us\u2019, directly condemning the Trump administration, ICE, and what he frames as America\u2019s accelerating slide into authoritarianism. <\/p>\n The post lands like a brick through a window, full of rage, and a very clear refusal to shut up for anyone (per Metal Sucks<\/a>).<\/p>\n He opens by reflecting on a moment in Los Angeles early last year, shortly after Trump returned to the White House, where he found himself reckoning with \u201call the horrors happening around us.\u201d From Trump\u2019s convictions and economic promises, to international threats and corruption, Blythe writes as someone watching the country rot in real time.<\/p>\n A major turning point<\/a> in the post is the killing of Minneapolis residents Ren\u00e9e Good and Alex Pretti, which Blythe describes alongside what he calls the \u201cmoral collapse of all three branches\u201d of government.<\/p>\n \u201cLike most of you\u2026 I am tired, y\u2019all. So goddamned tired. The open moral collapse of all three branches our government is utterly exhausting\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n From there, Blythe<\/a> spirals deeper into a furious breakdown of what he sees as a collapsing democracy, with some of his most graphic language reserved for the violence tied to ICE operations.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not just the fact that masked men now roam our streets, Gestapo-like, terrorizing the populace, openly killing two American citizens, shooting them in the face in broad daylight as their fellow citizens film these executions, then post videos of the killings to the internet, videos I cannot stop watching again and again.\u201d<\/p>\n Don\u2019t look away<\/p>\n Blythe urges Americans not to look away, writing: <\/p>\n \u201cIf you are a citizen of the United States and have not watched these videos, do so. Do not turn away. Do not ignore this\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Blythe also calls on artists to speak up, regardless of backlash.<\/p>\n \u201cSwallow your fear, and speak truth to power\u2014 this is what we were put here to do. So raise your voices now, motherfuckers\u2014 NOW.\u201d<\/p>\n For anyone whining \u2018keep politics out of metal\u2019, Blythe has a message that\u2019s basically been his entire career in one sentence: \u201cFuck the fascists. Do not comply.\u201d<\/p>\n Read Randy Blythe<\/a>\u2018s full Substack entry here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Follow me on Facebook here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If anyone still thinks Lamb Of God frontman Randy Blythe is the type to \u2018stay in his lane\u2019,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[12,88,2483,216,206391],"class_list":{"0":"post-436716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ice","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-randy-blythe"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}