Randy Blythe: "If Things Go To Shit, I'm Ready To Live In The Woods"

Randy Blythe is a man with notable survival instincts and abilities. He's a doer, not a sayer, a man who has previously spent nine days living off the land on an Aboriginal Living Skills School course with only a carved wooden spoon to call technology, not to mention an admirably positive, rational approach to even the shittiest situations.

So, it should come as no surprise that the Lamb Of God singer has already thought about a worst case scenario for the world's current situation, and already has what he needs "in the back of my truck" should the need to go and live in the woods arise.

"If things totally go to shit, I'm cool," he told the Illinois Entertainer, when asked about previous comments he made on the collapse of society, saying it would just be "me and my guns".

"I could totally disappear into the woods and live out there — it's not that big of a deal to me," he continued. "It's not just guns, because I'm not an AK-47-toting gun nut, ya know? But I am prepared. And have been for a long, long time."

The current situation, Randy says, is exposing underlying problems with the way we live and how economies work.

"The grid hasn't gone down, but the cracks in the system are showing. The fissures are widening, and the unsustainable nature of our ludicrous, materialistic way of life is becoming more and more apparent.

"I think it's a mistake to go into it with the Mad Max, tribalistic, everything's-going-to-turn-into-a-violent-shit-show attitude," he added. "That's a mistake. And I think if you put that sort of paradigm in your head, that's what you're gonna look for, and it's gonna find you, one way or the other. [But] I'm a big believer in — as Bad Brains called it — Positive Mental Attitude or PMA."

Lamb Of God's self-titled 10th album is due out on May 8 via Nuclear Blast.