Lamb Of God frontman Randy Blythe discussed his listening preferences during an interview on the most recent episode of the Mark And Me podcast, as per Blabbermouth. He disclosed that he dislikes streaming.
I don’t use Spotify or Apple Music or any of that stuff. Well, I still buy. I listen to music on my iPhone, but I buy the album, the digital album from the iTunes store, or what I really like is Bandcamp. The band gets the money [from Bandcamp]. So if the albums are available on Bandcamp, and I just want it ‘to go’ — I also buy vinyl, but I can’t carry a record player around with me on tour — I will buy from Bandcamp as much as possible and have that and then put it in my iTunes to listen. Even with that, you can listen, you can preview stuff, like a song or two. On Bandcamp, you can listen to the whole thing, but half the time I kind of have this sort of, I guess, longing for the mystery of the old days. So I don’t even preview much stuff. I listen to, like, one song.
“If I hear a song and — let’s say for instance, the other night, my girlfriend and I, for Valentine’s Day, we went to the goth prom; there was a goth prom. I painted my fingernails black and everything, wore my vampire fangs. We got all gothed up. Some friends of ours threw it — this band Dead Cool from North Carolina threw it — and so there’s us and 300 goth people there. And in between bands, over the stereo, there was a DJ, and he was playing some dark wave stuff. So I Shazamed it. I’m, like, ‘What is this? And it was just one song that I really liked, like a dance track. And I went on iTunes and bought it right there at the club — boom! And my girlfriend is, like, ‘You better hope the whole record’s good. You could have just bought one song.’ And I’m, like, ‘Eh, screw it.’ Yeah, it’s a mystery. And it also doesn’t hurt, though, to be perfectly honest, because I am a professional musician, that the albums I buy are a tax write-off for me, ’cause it’s research. [Laughs] Me, I’m [also] a bestselling author. My books I buy — tax write-off. It’s part of my business.
Upcoming shows:
- March 24 Minneapolis, MN Armory
- March 25 Chicago, IL Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
- March 27 Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorium
- March 28 Salt Lake City, UT The Union Event Center
- March 30 Portland, OR Theater of the Clouds
- March 31 Seattle, WA WAMU Theater
- April 1 Vancouver, BC PNE Forum
- April 3 San Francisco, CA The Masonic
- April 4 Inglewood, CA YouTube Theater
- April 5 Phoenix, AZ Arizona Financial Theatre
- April 7 Albuquerque, NM Revel Entertainment Center
- April 10 Austin, TX Moody Amphitheater
- April 11 Irving, TX The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
- April 12 Houston, TX 713 Music Hall
- April 14 Nashville, TN War Memorial Auditorium
- April 15 Atlanta, GA Coca-Cola Roxy Theatre
- April 16 Raleigh, NC Red Hat Amphitheater
- April 18 Reading, PA Santander Arena
- April 19 Virginia Beach, VA The Dome
- April 21 Buffalo, NY Buffalo RiverWorks
- April 23 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Paramount
- April 25 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
- April 26 Boston, MA MGM Music Hall at Fenway
- May 9 Daytona Beach, FL Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival
- May 17 Dayton, OH Welcome to Rockville
- May 20 San Juan, PR Coliseo de Puerto Rico
- Friday, July 24, 2026 – Istanbul, Turkey – Bonus Parkorman
- Saturday, July 25, 2026 – Plovdiv, Bulgaria – Hills of Rock
- Wednesday, July 29, 2026 – Râșnov, Romania – Rockstadt Extreme Fest
- Saturday, August 1, 2026 – Wacken, Germany – Wacken Open Air
- Monday, August 3, 2026 – Leipzig, Germany – Haus Auensee
- Wednesday, August 5, 2026 – Lisbon, Portugal – Vagos Open Air
- Friday, August 7, 2026 – Walton‑on‑Trent, United Kingdom – Bloodstock Open Air
- Sunday, August 9, 2026 – Kortrijk, Belgium – Alcatraz Open Air
- Tuesday, August 11, 2026 – Copenhagen, Denmark – K.B. Hallen
- Thursday, August 13, 2026 – Sulingen, Germany – Reload Festival
- Friday, August 14, 2026 – Dinkelsbühl, Germany – Summer Breeze
- Saturday, August 15, 2026 – Eindhoven, Netherlands – Dynamo Metalfest
- October 30 – November 3 Miami, FL Headbangers Boat