He points out that he'd made significant changes to his lifestyle before his 2012 arrest and 2013 acquittal over a manslaughter charge. Blythe tells Loudwire: "I drank for 22 years and got sober before any of this stuff happened. That was the big thing - when I realised I was taking a lot of things for granted.

"I'm glad to be a free man, but it's not like I view everything in my band versus the experience in the Czech Republic." He adds: "There's only two songs on the record that deal with that. They were both written while I was in prison.