AVENGED SEVENFOLD Singer: We Are A 'Full-On Heavy Metal' Band

April 10, 2006

AVENGED SEVENFOLD frontman M. Shadows has told MTV.com that his band wants to set the record straight so there's no confusion: they are a heavy metal band.

"When you go to our live show, it's a full-on heavy metal show, and we don't need — I mean, no offense to 10-year-old and 11-year-old little girls, [but] they're not going to understand the experience," he said.

The clip for the first single, "Bat Country", spent more than a week as the "TRL" audience's top pick. "We want our shows to be respectable heavy metal shows. We're a rock and roll band, and we want kids to know that."

AVENGED, who launched a 26-date co-headlining tour with COHEED AND CAMBRIA on Friday night in Poughkeepsie, New York, will play a number of dates this summer with METALLICA and GUNS N' ROSES.

"They're doing a bunch of festivals over in Europe [this June], so, we're doing all the off dates with GN'R and METALLICA," Shadows said. "They asked that we do all the festivals with them as well. So we have, like, a full month of just GN'R/METALLICA dates coming up. We'd grown up listening to both of those bands, and they're like icons to us. It's good to go out there and get to meet those guys."

AVENGED SEVENFOLD have met METALLICA and GUNS frontman Axl Rose before, and Shadows said the experience was "super cool." METALLICA singer James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich made it out to an AVENGED gig in San Francisco some months ago, and a connection was made.

"They're just the coolest dudes — nothing's better than meeting your idols and them being super cool to you," he said.

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