Avenged Sevenfold's upcoming album “sounds nothing like anything we’ve done” before musically. That's according to group member M. Shadows, who also told Kerrang! magazine that the follow up to their 2016 project, The Stage, heads in “a completely new direction” compared to their previous work.
Shadows added, “It’s over the top, and it’s very eclectic and wild!”
Avenged Sevenfold's members are still in the process of writing and recording the new music, which is delayed due to the ongoing pandemic. Shadows said, “We’re still trying to get string sections together, and our mixer is older and I know that they don’t want him to travel right now because of COVID, so even if we got it done right now, we couldn’t get it mixed, so we’re just not worrying about it, you know? It’s like: ‘When we can, we can.’ But right now, we can’t.”
The band would also like to wait to put out the album when they can tour to support it. Shadows explained, “The reality is – and no-one wants to hear this – in this day and age, rock’n’roll just takes too long to make: you know, it’s going to be a three-year record to make, and if we put that record out and then we’re locked down for another year, as much as people don’t want to believe this, they are not going to give a sh** about a record that came out a year prior when it’s time to tour.”
The new project will be Avenged Sevenfold's seventh studio album.