AVENGED SEVENFOLD Seeks Rat-Infested Garage To Record Next LP

October 4, 2006

AVENGED SEVENFOLD frontman M. Shadows told MTV.com that his band had no choice but to cancel their fall tours of the U.S. and the U.K.

"I think that once you're not feeling it live anymore, that's how you get yourself in trouble as a band," the singer said of the recently canceled outings with BLEEDING THROUGH. "People start arguing with each other, and it's not cool."

"I don't think being in the spotlight too long is healthy," Shadows explained. "We've been touring on this record for 16 months now, and we're like, 'Enough's enough.' We were kind of going through the motions for a while, playing the same songs, so we were like, 'We need to write some new stuff.'"

The band's already been writing some material, and Shadows is promising something "completely different."

"The last thing we're going to do is write 'City of Evil' part 2 or 'Waking the Fallen' part 2," Shadows said. "It's not going to be a thrash record or old-school or anything like that. I know it's going to be a sound that no one's heard — kind of like when KORN came out, they were the first ones to start that whole scene and they sounded different than everybody. We want to do that for our own generation."

AVENGED SEVENFOLD plans to convene in one of their garages to finish writing.

"Our first three records were written in a garage with rats running around, just with a ProTools [recording] setup," Shadows said. "And that's how we're going to write this record. If we upgrade, we'll have a drum set miked in there and we'll actually jam a little bit live."

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