LAMB OF GOD’s RANDY BLYTHE To Miss Grand Rapids Concert After Testing Positive For COVID-19

LAMB OF GOD frontman Randy Blythe shall be pressured to overlook the band’s live performance tonight (Tuesday, April 19) in Grand Rapids, Michigan after testing constructive for COVID-19, the illness attributable to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. He shall be briefly changed by CHIMAIRA‘s Mark Hunter and “a number of associates”.

Earlier right now, LAMB OF GOD launched the next assertion by way of social media: “Grand Rapids – Randy Blythe examined constructive for COVID over the weekend and has been isolating away from the remainder of the band. Whereas his signs have been gentle and he is on the mend, he will be unable to carry out tonight on the Van Andel Enviornment. Nevertheless, the present will go on! We’re working to place collectively a particular present with our brother Mark Hunter from CHIMAIRA taking on the mic and some associates serving to out as properly. We’ll see you tonight!”

The group added: “We’re hopeful [Randy] will be capable of return later this week and can replace as quickly as we will.”

LAMB OF GOD is at the moment on the highway in North America with MEGADETH as half of what’s being referred to as “The Metallic Tour Of The Yr”. Additionally showing on the invoice are TRIVIUM and IN FLAMES.

Final October, Blythe urged everybody coming to see his band carry out to get vaccinated towards COVID-19. “I consider in fucking science,” he stated throughout an look on MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn‘s “No Fuckin’ Regrets With Robb Flynn” podcast. “And I’ve associates who’re medical doctors and scientists and nurses, and these are individuals I’ll hearken to — not somebody on social media, not one other musician, not a speaking head on CNN, Fox Information, USA At present, PBS; none of these things. I speak to my associates who’re molecular biologists, immunologists, emergency room medical doctors, and I’ve associates who’re nurses, one among whom works in a COVID ward — and somebody very near me. These aren’t my associates’ neighbors’ second cousin’s buddy [saying], ‘I heard this or that or the opposite’; these are people who find themselves associates of mine I speak to instantly. They’re, like, ‘That is actual. That is the science. That is the information. That is what I see. These are the individuals I see dying.’ So I’ll hearken to my associates ‘trigger they’re rather a lot smarter than me.

“For me, all people has to quote-unquote do their very own analysis, I assume,” he laughed. “My analysis includes speaking to associates of mine who spent years of their lives pursuing levels that price them 1000’s and 1000’s of {dollars}, or who dedicate their lives to the service of others within the medical career. And that is what these individuals are telling me. So I haven’t got to filter via all this knowledge, via all these totally different media sources; I simply speak to my associates. ‘Are you vaccinated?’ ‘Sure.’ ‘Inform me about this vaccine. Inform me in regards to the know-how.’ And I’ve had these conversations.

“When the vaccine got here out very quickly, comparatively, like anybody else, I used to be, like, ‘Properly, that is fast,'” Randy admitted. “However then some associates of mine defined to me, ‘That is previous know-how. They have been engaged on this for 15 fucking years. It isn’t new. So reduce it out with that.’ And in addition, this isn’t simply an American or one nation’s or one company’s push; this can be a large worldwide effort to get this vaccine prepared — totally different ones prepared — for distribution.

“I’ve a good friend who works in intelligence — fairly high-level intelligence — and one among their jobs proper now’s serving to out with COVAX, which is the worldwide vaccine distribution arm. And he [was] speaking to one among his co-workers from COVAX, and it was simply, like, it’s totally irritating with sure locations the place the vaccine is offered and folks do not wanna take it, and there are international locations which are begging for it.

“All that apart, for me, like I stated, it is a matter of speaking to my associates and being, like, ‘What is the cope with this?'” Blythe added. “As a result of these are individuals I belief, they usually’re rather a lot smarter than me… So I’ll hearken to them — I am simply gonna.”

LAMB OF GOD‘s newest, self-titled album was launched in June 2020 by way of Epic Data within the U.S. and Nuclear Blast Data in Europe. The follow-up to “VII: Sturm Und Drang” marked LAMB OF GOD‘s first recordings with Artwork Cruz, who joined the band in July 2019 because the alternative for the group’s founding drummer, Chris Adler.

“Lamb Of God” was recorded with longtime producer Josh Wilbur (KORN, MEGADETH, GOJIRA, TRIVIUM) and consists of particular visitor appearances by Jamey Jasta (HATEBREED) and Chuck Billy (TESTAMENT).