On January 5, 2012, Blythe announced that he would be running for President of the United States via a blog entry entitled “I want to be The Big Cheese”. His official campaign slogan was “F*** the dumb sh**. Let’s get real here.” Blythe did not appear on any United States ballot that election year. Blythe appeared as Luke in the movie The Graves (2009), written and directed by Brian Pulido and also several DVDs of some of his musical peers such as Killswitch Engage’s (Set This) World Ablaze and Machine Head’s Elegies. Blythe was also featured in Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey, Working Class Rock Star and Melissa Cross’s The Zen of Screaming. In the summer of 2017, he joined the loose-knit fraternity of artists to cover songs by Johnny Cash, collaborating with heavy metal band DevilDriver for a rendition of the song “Ghost Riders in the Sky” (which, interestingly was also a cover version when Cash sang it), for an upcoming album of country-western covers by the band.