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...