The title for Lamb Of God‘s twelfth full-length album “Into Oblivion” is a component declaration and half a worrying commentary on the place the band’s frontman Randy Blythe feels the world is headed. Upon saying that document earlier this month, Blythe stated of the intent behind that title selection:
“As a result of that’s the place we’re heading. On the whole, the album is in regards to the ongoing and fast breakdown of the social contract, significantly right here in America. Issues are acceptable now that may’ve horrified folks simply 20 years in the past.”
In a brand new interview with Kerrang!, Blythe has added some additional context to his issues. As he additionally explains, each he and his spouse have severely restricted their entry to the web and deserted social media, placing bodily necessities in entrance of their web entry in a bid to reconnect with the true world. Regardless of this, Blythe does enable himself each day overviews of the world information and extra on-line.
What he does see when he logs in has apparently left him disturbed, as he advised Kerrang!:
“I’m not pleased with the best way the world is true now. We’re careening in direction of some form of crash, and there are individuals who not solely acknowledge this, however try to hasten it with a purpose to revenue from it. [With] the distribution of wealth, the hole is getting wider and wider and wider and wider. I don’t simply assume that’s true: that’s a truth. We have to find out how essential we’re to 1 one other. As a result of the super-rich aren’t going that can assist you.”
He later added, “That is the second at which empires fall. We’ve seen this many times and once more. So with out sounding too doomsday-ish, I believe we’re in late-stage capitalism, and I don’t assume it’s going to finish effectively.” Pointing to the catastrophe capitalism that adopted within the wake of Hurricane Katrina for example, Blythe said, “There are obscenely rich folks dictating coverage, whose solely concern is enriching themselves.”
Whereas profiteers got here in and purchased up the land the place folks’s houses have been destroyed in that pure catastrophe, the those who initially lived within the affected areas have been in the end priced out of as new dearer developments have been made. As Blythe put it, “These folks know that issues are fucked up, and their reply to that is to change into as wealthy as they will with a purpose to isolate themselves and defend themselves from the remainder of the populace.”
Blythe stays hopeful that disengaging with algorithmic rage bait and reconnecting with their native communities could also be a technique for society to make some constructive progress. He has shared his ideas on the present state of the world and much more associated to “Into Oblivion” over at Kerrang!. That document is presently headed for a March thirteenth launch date.
