AVENGED SEVENFOLD Frontman M. SHADOWS Talks New Album - "We're Very Influenced By KANYE WEST"
January 6, 2022, 2 years ago
Speaking with Metal Hammer about Avenged Sevenfold's forthcoming eighth album, due for release in February, frontman M. Shadows revealed it was influenced in part by Kanye West.
Shadows: "We're very influenced by Kanye West.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.
This next record, I don’t know exactly how it comes out, but the record after that, we have no label. 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!"
Read the complete report here.
Appearing on the Louder Than Life Festival's Twitch channel in July 2021, Shadows commented on the band's long awaited follow-up to The Stage from 2016.
M. Shadows: "The reason we don’t say much about the music is because we find that every single word we say about it just gets spun off, and there’s no way to describe music; it’s like, 'Oh, it’s heavy, it’s fast…' What are we gonna say about it? It’s a work of art that we’ve worked on for a long time. We had a bunch of personal things that we’ll explain later, but we’re booking shows for next summer and the record will be out before then."
