RANDY BLYTHE is gearing up to release his second book, Just Beyond The Light: Making Peace With The Wars Inside Our Head, which is due for release worldwide on 18th February via Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group. The UK hardback edition ships from Amazon on 13th March. Blythe’s previously released memoir, Dark Days, focused on the Richmond-based vocalist’s personal story, with a candid re-telling of both his brightest and darkest days. With Just Beyond The Light, Blythe shares how he works daily to maintain positivity in a world that feels like it is spinning out of control. In his own words, Just Beyond the Light is a “tight, concise roadmap of how I have attempted to maintain what I believe to be a proper perspective in life even during difficult times.” Written with a scathing balance of hard-edged reality offset by a knowing humour and a razor-sharp wit, voiced in in his inimitable, conversational, everyman-philosopher style, Blythe clearly breaks down his approach to life, which is a personal and idiosyncratic mix of sobriety, art, and surfing. He writes movingly of his childhood in the South, of fallen friends, of what he’s learned touring the world as the vocalist of a successful heavy metal band, and of the very real ways he is doing what he can to leave the world a better place. Above all, he offers readers hope that balance, real balance, is possible, even (or especially) when things seem hopeless. “For me, the single most gratifying aspect of being an artist is learning that your work has been useful to others in some way. I’ve been told by lots of readers that my last book, Dark Days, helped them a lot. I hope Just Beyond the Light does the same,” says Blythe, about this highly anticipated follow-up memoir. Just Beyond the Light is available to pre-order via Amazon in the UK here. | 
