Avenged Sevenfold returning to "rat-infested garage" for new album
Avenged Sevenfold singer M. Shadows has declared that the band will return to its roots in order to write its next album. Shadows explained, "Our first three records were written in a garage with rats running around...And that's how we're going to write this record. If we upgrade, we'll have a drum set miked in there and we'll actually jam a little bit live. It's just going to be gritty. We want it to be a cool record, not some polished crap just 'cause we've got a couple songs on the radio now."
Shadows said that the next album will be "completely different" from previous efforts, telling us that the band doesn't want its music to be categorized: "I don't know, man, I think it can be taken a lot of different ways. I know we have tons of metal influences in us, and then we have a lot of punk rock influences, and we have a lot of rock and roll influences, you know. So I just think we're a big concoction of different forms of rock music, and I think that's what kind of makes us have our own sound. We don't wanna be labeled as anything other than Avenged Sevenfold."
Avenged Sevenfold recently canceled fall tours of the U.S. and U.K. in order to work on the follow-up to 2005's City Of Evil.
Shadows told MTV that the band was exhausted anyway after 16 months on the road, adding, "We (were) like, 'Enough's enough.' We were kind of going through the motions for a while, playing the same songs, so we were like, 'We need to write some new stuff.'"
The vocalist also hinted that Avenged Sevenfold might work with different producers to record different parts of the next album.
Shadows said that the next album will be "completely different" from previous efforts, telling us that the band doesn't want its music to be categorized: "I don't know, man, I think it can be taken a lot of different ways. I know we have tons of metal influences in us, and then we have a lot of punk rock influences, and we have a lot of rock and roll influences, you know. So I just think we're a big concoction of different forms of rock music, and I think that's what kind of makes us have our own sound. We don't wanna be labeled as anything other than Avenged Sevenfold."
Avenged Sevenfold recently canceled fall tours of the U.S. and U.K. in order to work on the follow-up to 2005's City Of Evil.
Shadows told MTV that the band was exhausted anyway after 16 months on the road, adding, "We (were) like, 'Enough's enough.' We were kind of going through the motions for a while, playing the same songs, so we were like, 'We need to write some new stuff.'"
The vocalist also hinted that Avenged Sevenfold might work with different producers to record different parts of the next album.
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