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Avenged Sevenfold seem to be the band of the moment - and with good reason. They made the cover of the UK’s Metal Hammer magazine with a killer interview and we’ve picked out a couple of the highlights.
On being criticized by other bands:
M. Shadows: “No other metal band is.doing what we’re doing. We’ve all heard people in bands who I won’t give any publicity to shouting their mouths off in recent months, but fuck the haters. People know that they’ll get more attention by talking shit about us and if that’s the way they want to run their bands, that’s fine, but it’s not what we would do. We go out there and kill it every night and you can see what this means to people.”
Synyster Gates: “We want to do things the right way. We’re lucky to be part of such a unique genre and we’re fighting for metal, for the renaissance of the music we love; we believe in this, and to see thousands of kids turning out for a show that we’ve put heart and soul into is fucking awesome. We’re not insecure about this. We know the point we’re at… but we all know that there’s so much fucking more to come. And we want to take everyone along for the ride.”
On theirfan basein Europe:
M. Shadows: “I recall us selling out L.A.’s 5,000-capacity Gibson Amphitheatre and flying straight to Germany to play a 300-capacity room where we’d only sold 120 tickets. This was when‘City Of Evil’was really taking off in the U.S., but it seemed like Europe was less interested. And now our ticket sales in Europe are just crushing what we’re doing in the States. That’s a pretty amazing feeling. It feels like we’re truly building a worldwide cult. And that this is just the beginning of something special.”
On their new stage show:
Synyster Gates: “I hope we’re not the last of the Mohicans when it comes to putting on a big, crazy, over-the-top theatrical rock show. This is what we grew up on, with bands like MaidenandMetallica, and I really hope we’re not the last of a dying breed. We want to blow kids’ minds just as we had our minds blown by massive shaws when we were growing up. Metal should be spectacuiar and dramatic and thrilling. When kids invest their time and money in coming to see us, we owe it to them to give them the best night of their lives.”
You can read moreand check out a recent live video of the boys playing This Means War in Boston
