AVENGED SEVENFOLD Hope To Prove They're 'A Metal Force To Be Reckoned With' On OZZFEST

May 19, 2006

AVENGED SEVENFOLD guitarist Zacky Vengeance spoke to MTV.com about the band's appearance this summer on the main stage for the 11th annual Ozzfest.

"It's our chance to prove to the world that if there's a torch to be carried, we can help participate," Vengeance said. "We're not nervous at all about it. We've been on tour long enough to know that with our fans alone, they'll be excited to come out and support us. These shows are going to kick ass." Vengeance added that talk of the band being faux metal "makes its way onto online messageboards, and that's where it originates and disappears, too. When we get onstage, people in the crowd will have a good time. There's always going to be haters, but those people are few. We're not too worried about it."

Vengeance said that AVENGED plan to silence the skeptics and prove themselves worthy of a headbangin', horn-throwin' salute.

"There's people that have never heard our album," he said. "The most they've seen is either our video on 'TRL' or our picture on the cover of magazines. Every show we play is going to be a battle. Until you see us live and experience it firsthand, I don't expect you'd be a believer. After they see us, I think it won't leave any doubt in their minds that we're anything other than a metal force to be reckoned with. We go out there every night, and we fight the battle. We don't care about people who don't think we're true metal. We hope to change their minds. I have total faith.

"We can't wait to get out in front of a strictly metal audience, and prove to the world what we're about and what we can do," Vengeance continued. "We want to show the world that we think we can hang with all the great bands that we love."

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