How Lamb of God’s ‘The Duke’ Helped Save a Man With Leukemia

The ability of music is unimaginable typically — Lamb of God’s 2016 tune “The Duke” has helped save a person with leukemia this week.

The tune was initially written a couple of man named Wayne Ford, who was a fan of Lamb of God, and died of leukemia in 2015. When the band launched the tune and its accompanying EP the next 12 months, additionally they helped unfold consciousness about a company referred to as Be the Match, which is operated by the Nationwide Marrow Donor Program, to match bone marrow and blood donors with blood most cancers sufferers.

In line with a slideshow of images Randy Blythe posted on Instagram at this time (Dec. 23), a person named Todd Seaman from Arkansas registered with Be the Match after listening to “The Duke” 5 years in the past, and earlier this 12 months, he obtained a discover that he’d been matched with a 65-year-old man in Virginia who has leukemia.

Blythe met Seamen and his father Scott in Washington D.C. earlier this week to point out them across the metropolis and luxuriate in a dinner collectively. The subsequent day, Seamen went to the clinic and donated a bag of stem cells and a bag of plasma for the affected person he’d been matched with.

“As you learn this, the leukemia affected person is receiving Todd’s donation. Proper this very second, that man is receiving the perfect Christmas current ever — a second probability at life,” Blythe wrote. “To say that I’m honored to have been a small a part of it is a huge understatement. Yesterday Todd mentioned, ‘Dude — Lamb of God saved somebody’s life at this time.’ I mentioned, ‘No, you saved somebody’s life at this time. Lamb of God simply helped you somewhat.'”

“Thanks Todd, for letting us know that what we do issues. These had been two of the best days of my life.”

Blythe took a number of images of Seaman receiving the process. See the complete publish under, and take a look at Be the Match’s web site to find out how you, too, can doubtlessly assist save somebody’s life.