In a recent interview, lead singer M. Shadows stated that the new Avenged Sevenfold album will be finished recording in February. Shadows continues by adding some hints at what the album will feature.
“In January, we’re going in to finish the strings on the record, the record’s been recorded for a year, but we haven’t been able to put the real strings on it, because we couldn’t fly out to Prague. When an orchestra have to social distance and they aren’t sitting next to each other, they can get out of tune, and we have just finally got to a place where we can use this 70-piece orchestra as we intended. We finish the record in February, mix it in March.”
This new album will mark the first new work from Avenged Sevenfold since their 2016 album ‘The Stage’. The last album took heavy influence from the progressive side of metal and this record is looking to grab influence from a very unlikely source. Shadows continues.
“We’re very influenced by Kanye West,” the singer continues. “The thing about Kanye is that he is pulling from such great soul music. I didn’t grow up with that stuff – my dad listened to Boston and Alice Cooper, I didn’t get that taste of black music and old soul. So, diving deep into jazz musicians… we’re not trying to do a jazz record, but the chord changes and progressions are so eye-opening to us.”
Avenged Sevenfold seem to be in a transition time as a band and the future will have some interesting moments. M. Shadows said this when asked what he expects to the future will hold for the band.
“This next record, I don’t know exactly how it comes out, but the record after that, we have no label,” he reveals. “At that point we start implementing all the new ideas of going straight to the base of people that really care more. The new frontier excites us; expect very wacky ideas!”
