Avenged Sevenfold drop new single Nobody, announce long-awaited eighth album and U.S. live dates

Avenged Sevenfold have just dropped their first new music since 2016 album The Stage! After all sorts of wild teasing, the Huntington Beach titans have unleashed epic new single Nobody, along with an accompanying stop-motion video directed by Chris Hopewell. Nobody is taken from A7X’s upcoming eighth album, which as fans figured out is entitled Life Is But A Dream, and is due out on June 2 (pre-order it here). While they’re not revealing too much yet, a press release states that the record ​‘was inspired by the writing and philosophy of Albert Camus’, and is lyrically rooted in ​‘existentialism and absurdism’. Can’t wait. Speaking to Kerrang! in December 2020, frontman M. Shadows teased: ​“The record sounds nothing like The Stage – it’s a completely new direct...