NEWS 2020/01/16
Things have been relatively quiet in the Avenged Sevenfold camp of late (save for the fact that they recently revealed their favourite albums of 2019), but the band are kicking off 2020 with a previously-unheard track, Set Me Free. The Huntington Beach metal titans have unveiled the song while also confirming that it was actually recorded for their sixth studio album Hail To The King. At the time of its release in 2013, frontman M. Shadows said in an interview with Guitar Center that they went for a “very bare bones, riff-oriented approach” on Hail To The King, and it’s fair to say Set Me Free follows that very same musical idea, too. “It’s really easy for us to say, ‘That melody would sound great here, throw this background vocal here, here...
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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.