Lamb of God's Randy Blythe Talks Suicide Attempt & Trying to Burn His House Down [VIDEO]

Randy Blythe, the frontman for Lamb of God, is opening up about his battle with depression in a video for The You Rock Foundation. Blythe revealed that he entered a mental hospital following a suicide attempt and nearly burning his house down.

The 44-year-old rocker fell into a deep depression at the age of 24, after he split from his girlfriend. Blythe took sleeping pills and drank alcohol in a suicide attempt. He woke up angry and tried to burn his house down.

Blythe opened up about the ordeal in a video for the mental health awareness charity, The You Rock Foundation.

The singer explained, "I had a complete meltdown... I can't really blame this sort of meltdown on me breaking up with a girlfriend – it had been building and building."

"I came home from a wedding... and I was really drunk, and ate... two or three boxes of sleeping pills... I lay down on my couch and I'm just like, 'I'm gonna die, this is awesome, I'm done with this terrible world'... But what happened was I woke up crazy and drunk... Just completely out of [my] mind... So I took some furniture... and sat it on top of our gas stove... Caught it on fire and tried to burn the house down..."

Blythe's neighbor called 911 and the rocker was detained before being admitted to a hospital in Virginia.

Randy recalls, "I'm swinging from the trees in the backyard, the house is on fire... The fire department comes... The police show up. They handcuffed me... they thought I was on crack, they didn't realize I was having this... complete emotional breakdown. I was trying to exit this existence... They put me in a psych ward... Pumping my stomach... I spent about three days on the psych ward." [sic]

The frontman went on to add, "I was in a great place but I felt like I was dying. That's the component of alcoholism and depression that's really baffling to some people."

Randy admits he continued to abuse drugs and alcohol for more than 20 years before he turned his life around.

"I never tried to kill myself again," he explains. "But I never dealt with the problem, which was me. I never talked to people about it. I just kept pouring more and more alcohol and drugs on it... Slowly I accepted some help from people, and put the drink and drugs away and slowly my life began to get better."

The rocker penned a book titled Dark Days: A Memoir, where he discusses the being arrested on manslaughter charges, stemming from an incident at a Prague show in 2010.

The frontman was accused by Czech Republic authorities of purposefully pushing a 19-year-old fan offstage, who struck his head on the floor and later died from his injuries.

On June 28, 2012, Blythe stepped off a plane in Prague and was taken into custody and held in prison for 37 days. He was released on bail and returned to the United States.

Blythe went against his legal advisors and voluntarily returned to the Czech Republic to stand trial. The singer was acquitted on March 5, 2013.

Lamb of God recently axed their European tour following the Paris terror attacks, but announced a headline tour coming in January/February 2016 U.S. Other bands in the line up include Anthrax and openers Deafheaven and Power Trip.