"We were a big band, but none of our songs could be played anywhere in a bar." The band's solution was to simplify. According to Shadows, they intentionally streamlined the music, drawing heavily ...

In a new interview with Bradley Hall, Avenged Sevenfold's M. Shadows revealed that the band's Hail to the King album was a more reactionary album after feeling that the band didn't have any ...

Trivium’s Ascendancy, Bullet For My Valentine’s The Poison and Avenged Sevenfold’s City Of Evil are 20 years old now, and your knees aren’t what they used to be ...

A single-cut with a 25.5-inch scale length, EMG pickups rather than popular-in-metal Fishmans, and a brand-new headstock shape, Rowe's signature Jackson is as striking as her all-powerful playing ...

The Hail to the King became Avenged Sevenfold second chart-topping album after the initial No. 1 success of Nightmare. It was their fifth straight album and the most recent album of the band’s ...

The album that introduced the world to a blazing new talent ... and mixed radio rock with steel-plated metal to killer effect. The point at which Avenged Sevenfold fully transformed from Orange County ...

What are the best 2000s emo bands that defined a generation with their music? This article features a fantastic list of the ...

Avenged Sevenfold has not been too shy in talk of their new album. The one thing that always popped up in interviews regarding Hail to ...

But before they re-formed, the band held a memorial concert at the Hollywood Bowl for their late frontman, called Linkin Park and Friends, Celebrate Life in Honor of Chester Bennington. Some of the ...

From the festival’s origins to memorable moments - here’s a few answers to a few Download Festival questions 🤘 ...

System Of A Down are reportedly "testing the waters" with their upcoming stadium concerts and considering the potential of a new album.