So for us, it's just always evolving, and it's a weird thing because as the band gets bigger, the band is bigger because of the new records, but the old records are always going to have that fan-base going "Why can't you just go do that again?" It would just be like, "Well, this not only is working, but we don't want to." It's a weird thing, but that's with anything you talk to a painter and someone's going to want them to replicate that. That record will always be there! You can always put it on and enjoy it. Why write the same record twice? That would just suck. We're not trying to recreate something that's already there. Some people will never understand that, but if we're writing music for the fans, then we're not doing ourselves justice. We've always just done what we want to do. It's kind of tricky when you think of it from a fan-base perspective because fans can grow attached to one particular sound, and then you change up your sound a go in a little bit different direction. You guys have definitely had your early sound, your middle sound, and now your current sound. It's always kind of crazy to think about how – as you pointed out – different each album has been. It's weird looking back on it because I try not to think about it too much because we still try to be creative and write records, and if you think about that stuff it just gets in your head. It doesn't feel like that long ago, but at the same time, I look back on it and we just had the 10-year anniversary for City of Evil, and it's crazy to think that 10 years ago I was living in my parents' house writing records in a garage on Warped Tour. What we've noticed is that we have fans who are hardcore and they love it all, then we have fans who are all about one certain album and they hate everything else, then we have fans where they came in the beginning and then they come back a couple albums later. If you look before that, Waking the Fallen was completely different from City of Evil. If you look at that White Album compared to City of Evil, those were completely different albums. Songs like "Afterlife" and "Almost Easy" are just embedded in my brain forever.ĭo you look back at that and feel like songs like those are from a lifetime ago? Your newer stuff is a different sound altogether, while retaining that Avenged Sevenfold flair to it. When I was in college, your self-titled album came out and I remember just hearing "Critical Acclaim" constantly. Check out the resulting discussion, which took place on Jbelow. That discussion never appeared anywhere until now. While I broke out his comments on Guitar Hero into a story on our main feed, we also spun off the discussion to chat about his band's ever-changing music and what it's like to try and appeal to fans who started listening during different eras of the band. Shadows about the band's involvement in the then-upcoming Guitar Hero Live. During E3 2015, I spoke with Avenged Sevenfold's frontman M. Avenged Sevenfold has been a mainstay of popular hard rock and metal for a decade and a half now, which tracks like "Bat Country," "Almost Easy," and "Beast and the Harlot" appearing in every facet of pop culture including video games.
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