“I don’t know if surrealness is scalable, but if it was on a scale of 1 to 10, it was pretty 10ish,” Blythe said. Through a swirl of confusion compounded by the language barrier, Blythe eventually learned that he was being charged in the death of a fan he allegedly shoved off the stage at a show two years earlier.
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Instead, he found himself surrounded by Czech police - five of them in full gear with loaded machine guns - within seconds of walking off the plane. Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe during his 2013 trial in Prague.
Blythe (pronounced “Bly”) was looking forward to taking in the sights around the city. Lamb of God, based in Richmond, Virginia, had a rare day off. “Me going to prison and going through all this is nothing compared to what his family went through.”īlythe’s odyssey began at the Prague airport on June 27, 2012. That’s the tragedy that occurred,” he said. That’s the key component of the story, really. “A young man who is a fan of my band is dead.
The US government didn’t seem interested in cooperating with extradition.īlythe, lead singer of the heavy metal band Lamb of God, felt the pull of obligation - to himself, to justice and, most of all, to the family of the young fan who died at one of his band’s shows. The easy road would be to never return to the Czech Republic.įamily and friends urged him to stay away. PHOENIX - Randy Blythe faced up to 10 years in a foreign prison for a crime he didn’t believe he had committed.
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