M. Shadows: Avenged Sevenfold’s new album is “always making left-turns on you”

Following the announcement of their upcoming eighth album Life Is But A Dream and the release of lead single Nobody earlier this month, Avenged Sevenfold​’s M. Shadows has spoken about how ​“different” the band’s new record is. Following the epic The Stage in 2016, the vocalist tells Finn McKenty aka The Punk Rock MBA in a new interview that Life Is But A Dream has a totally ​“different mind-set”, and is ​“completely reworked from what we think of as records and how they should be made”. “I’ve said it to a few people: the thing I keep getting back is Abbey Road-esque,” M. Shadows explains (transcribed by Kerrang!). ​“It’s just different; it’s got a bunch of flavours and colours, we don’t stay too long anywhere, it’s kind of in and out. It’s a&nb...