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Avenged Sevenfold singer M Shadows picks his ten favourite concept albums

Now US metalheads Avenged Sevenfold have moved into prog metal and avant-garde concept albums, singer M Shadows reveals his inspirations

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Avenged Sevenfold frontman M Shadows: "technology overuse is killing metal and killing rock"

Avenged Sevenfold's M Shadows explains why modern production techniques are having a detrimental effect on metal's ability to translate to the mainstream

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What happened when Avenged Sevenfold released a prog metal concept album

With 2016's The Stage Avenged Sevenfold set themselves on a path away from their original heavy metal sound. This is the story...

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"We want to give people anxiety": how Avenged Sevenfold made 2023's strangest, most divisive heavy metal record with Life Is But A Dream...

Avenged Sevenfold shocked many fans with their eighth studio album. As the band themselves tell us, however, it was simply the record they had to make

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Every single Avenged Sevenfold album ranked from worst to best

From debut album Sounding The Seventh Trumpet to proudly off-the-rails latest album Life Is But A Dream..., this is every Avenged album ranked in order of awesomeness

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"The Dark Side Of The Moon of the modern era": Avenged Sevenfold fans review Life Is But A Dream...

We asked rock and metal fans for their reactions to Avenged Sevenfold's ambitious new album Life Is But A Dream... - here's what they had to say

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Avenged Sevenfold hoped to make Life Is But A Dream... even weirder by having Lionel Richie sing on it

Avenged Sevenfold were in talks with Lionel Richie to feature on their wild new album Life Is But A Dream...but things didn't quite go to plan

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Avenged Sevenfold found angry reactions to the band's new material hilarious: "we were just laughing"

Avenged Sevenfold aren't a band afraid to cause a stir, even if it's in their own fanbase

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Metal superstars Avenged Sevenfold: ‘Reading Camus led to psychedelic exploration with a shaman’

They weathered the death of their drummer to score back-to-back US No 1s – frontman M Shadows explains why they’ve now left ‘hockey arena metal’ behind to make an absurdly polarising album

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Loving the new Avenged Sevenfold album? Here are the 10 records you need to listen to next

From glitching electronics to unpredictable prog and heavy metal theatrics, ...Life Is But A Dream is an absolute trip. If you're enjoying it, here's where to go next

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Avenged Sevenfold have crafted their definitive artistic statement... and it’s fantastic

Huntington Beach titans Avenged Sevenfold's career-defining masterpiece Life Is But A Dream sets a new benchmark

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5 new bands to listen to if you love Avenged Sevenfold

Want to know who the successors to Avenged Sevenfold are? Try these for size

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Avenged Sevenfold’s Life Is But A Dream… is a brilliantly deranged, LSD-soaked psycho-metal musical

Album review: Avenged Sevenfold have made the craziest album you’ll hear this year with Life Is But A Dream…

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“We did a lot of f**king drugs - the good kind!": Synyster Gates on Avenged Sevenfold's new album Life Is But A Dream...

Avenged Sevenfold's forthcoming album Life Is But A Dream... is a wild ride

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Avenged Sevenfold's new single We Love You is a wild genre-clashing cosmic ride

Avenged Sevenfold defy all expectations with their wild Mr. Bungle-inspired new single, We Love You

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10 metal songs that are weirdly popular on streaming

These lesser celebrated tracks by Iron Maiden, Slipknot, Avenged Sevenfold, Slayer and more have even outshined some of their biggest hits

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Here are all the bands that every member of Avenged Sevenfold were in before Avenged Sevenfold

They may be one of the 21st century's biggest metal bands, but Avenged Sevenfold's various members have certainly spent time elsewhere

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Avenged Sevenfold's M Shadows says opening for Metallica feels "like you're going to war"

Avenged Sevenfold frontman M Shadows originally turned down opening for Metallica on their 2017 tour, worried they would always be seen as "second fiddle"

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The 10 greatest Avenged Sevenfold riffs ever

Reinventing the guitar hero for 21st century metal, these are the 10 riffs that have defined Avenged Sevenfold's career

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M Shadows credits a "deep" exploration into psychedelic drugs as the reason for Avenged Sevenfold's "bold" new sound

Profound experiences shared by vocalist M Shadows and guitarist Synyster Gates while tripping on DMT have apparently influenced their band's new "boldness"

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