NEWS 2020/04/30
When Claudio Sanchez was interviewed some years ago for a Kerrang! cover feature, he gave the appearance of being the world’s most unlikely rock star. Despite being at the height of the band’s popularity then, the Coheed And Cambria frontman sat at a kitchen table in Upstate New York fidgeting like a schoolboy waiting to be seen by a headmaster. With his leonine hair tied back, and wearing glasses, when the conversation turned to stickier subjects – namely, drugs – his voice would reduce to a stammered whisper, while his left hand removed a ring from his right, only to replace it over and over again. Claudio describes himself as an “insecure frontman”, a state of mind that surely explains the modus operandi of his reassuringly esoteric band. Their 2018 album, the snappily titled ...
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.