NEWS 2020/12/31
Unlike so many unfortunate bands and artists this year, 2020 didn’t affect Avenged Sevenfold’s plans all that much. The Huntington Beach metallers have been working on the follow-up to 2016’s The Stage for some time now, but on a fairly casual basis lately: “It’s like, ‘When we can, we can,’” frontman M. Shadows shrugs calmly to Kerrang! today, explaining how there was no scramble to finish the material that was already in place. Nevertheless, the quintet – completed by guitarists Synyster Gates and Zacky Vengeance, bassist Johnny Christ and drummer Brooks Wackerman – didn’t drop off the grid entirely over the past 12 months. They gave away free merch to fans as an incentive to quarantine when coronavirus hit, and also released awesome 2008 DVD/CD package, Live In The LBC &...
Nightmare
2010 release, the fifth album from the Alt-Metal outfit, produced by Mike Elizondo (Dr. Dre, Eminem) and mixed by noted engineer Andy Wallace. The album is the first from the band without drummer James the Rev Sullivan, who passed away in December. Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy plays drums on the album. Over the years, Avenged Sevenfold has built a fanatical fan base that includes more than one million fans on Facebook. They have also attracted 93 million plays on MySpace.