Back in September, when Lamb of God premiered the raging single "Grayscale," guitarist Willie Adler commented that he wrote the tune "thinking it won't necessarily be a Lamb song." Now, in a new interview with Heavy Consequence, LOG vocalist Randy Blythe has revealed that it was actually intended for an entirely different band altogether — and one with a pretty hilariously awesome name.
"That song, originally... Willie and I, a while ago came up with the idea for the greatest name for a hardcore band ever – Gorilla Dick," Blythe explained, as transcribed by Metal Injection. "[There was a story in the news at the time where there] was two gorillas in a zoo in like, San Diego I think – a male and a female gorilla – and the male gorilla started pleasuring the female gorilla with his mouth and all these people are watching [totally shocked]. I was like 'yeah, that gorilla knows what's up. He's gonna get a gorilla blowjob later because he's handling his business and taking care of his lady first.' Hint hint, dudes.
"So Willie was like, 'Yeah, he's gonna get his gorilla dick sucked later.' Then we started thinking about it [and] and we were like, 'Gorilla dick. That's got to be the most evil dick in the world because a gorilla will rip you to pieces right?' So we're like, that's the perfect name for a hardcore band. Gorilla Dick. Then we come find out the gorillas have little tiny dicks. Like, one inch long. Which makes it even better. So Willie decided he was going to write that song for our Gorilla Dick project."
Great story, and great song. In fact, if you dig "Grayscale," rest assured: Blythe says there still is a Gorilla Dick record in the pipeline. "We are going to do eventually a Gorilla Dick album," he promised. "So watch out."
