Everywhere you look you cannot stop reading or hearing about what is going on with Lamb of God. After Randy’s release and exemption from charges, the bankruptcy of the band and what they are intending on doing about getting back into the scene has been spread all over sites and podcasts everywhere. As the band prepares to tour Europe in August, Blythe is busy recapping his experiences for fans. This press release was sent out in accordance with the announcement of the memoir, 
“The memoir, which puts emphasis on the past year of his life, is an incredible, harrowing, heartbreaking, and redemptive story told in Blythe’s already well-recognized writing style. It seems that almost every major media outlet has attempted to righteously cover the story of Blythe’s arrest, incarceration, trial, and acquittal for manslaughter in the Czech Republic last year, but now, the man at the center of it all unveils the truths of the ordeal, personally detailing every aspect in his own words. No ghost-writers, no co-authors, just Randy Blythe, himself.
“Randy Blythe is pleased to announce that the rights to this currently untitled memoir, currently slated to hit stores in the spring of 2014, have been sold to Executive Editor Ben Schafer at Da Capo Press by Marc Gerald at The Agency Group. Da Capo Press is a member of American publishing company the Perseus Books Group. Da Capo Press is an excellent home for Blythe’s memoir, as they are already recognized internationally as the publishers of several other memoirs by heavy metal greats like Tony Iommi, Corey Taylor, Rex Brown, and Al Jourgensen.”
Blythe himself states: “While I’ve dreamed of being a published author almost since I began to read, I never imagined my first book would center around such a sad topic. Sometimes though, life unexpectedly provides you a story that needs to be told. I believe this one does (for several different reasons, not just for the benefit of myself), so I will tell it with the respect and dignity all involved deserve. This will be a good read, I promise you, and I hope some good comes of it.”
“I knew that Randy was a master vocalist and lyricist but it turns out he is a vivid and visceral prose writer as well,” adds Da Capo Press Executive Editor Ben Schafer. “Regarding his arrest and trial in the Czech Republic, Randy handled a frightening and heartbreaking situation with courage, grace, and humility, and we at Da Capo Press are honored to have the opportunity to have a part in telling his story.”
De Cape Press is releasing the story and I’m sure that I’m not the only one interested in what is going to happen with this. Is this a last ditch effort to try to raise money for his comrades who have been suffering because of his trial? Or is this Blythe’s honest attempt to get the word out about his trials and tribulations that he faced over seas and in the states for the past year? Regardless of the controversy fans are just happy that the band is touring again, it’s been a long year of manslaughters and mishaps and we’re all happy to have it be over. More information to come about this, stay tuned.
