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Opeth, Phil Anselmo, Black Label Society and many more added to Download Festival 2014

The organizers of Download Festival 2014 mean business – they’ve just announced a lot more participants, confirming artists such as Opeth, Phil Anselmo and the Illegals, Black Label Society, Bowling For Soup, Flogging Molly, Bad Religion, the BossHoss, Skid Row, Tesla, Bury Tomorrow, Danger Danger, Powerman 5000, Huntress, the Graveltones and Anti-Mortem. The headliners had been previously announced: Avenged Sevenfold, Linkin Park and Aerosmith. Rob Zombie, Fall Out Boy and Alter Bridge were announced as…

Check out Avenged Sevenfold’s animated series trailer

Source Avenged Sevenfold – Animated Series The animated series will premiere on December 15, and according to M. Shadows, the story plays as a backstory for the band’s upcoming mobile game, Hail To The King: Deathbat. The animation was created in collaboration with Machinima and, the well known creator of Dethklok and Metalocalypse series, Jon Schnepp. Also talking about the idea of creating this game, M. Shadows said that: Two years ago while touring in…

Avenged Sevenfold released new video: Shepherd of Fire

Source Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold decided to release a new video for one of the songs from their latest album, Hail To The King, released in August this year. The video for Shepherd of Fire was directed by Wayne Isham, the guy that used to collaborate with bands like Metallica, Godsmack, Pantera and even Bon Jovi. I am not going to say much about the song, because I think that you are all…

Machine Head frontman congratulates Avenged Sevenfold on ‘covers album’

Shots: fired. Legendary Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn came out with a blog posting on his online blog, “The General Journals: Diary Of A Frontman… And Other Ramblings – Life Affirming” in which he totally slams and dunks Avenged Sevenfold. I’m gonna take the liberty of quoting him here: “Congratulations to AVENGED SEVENFOLD on their latest ‘covers album’ coming in at #1. “Who knew that re-recording METALLICA, GUNS N’ ROSES and MEGADETH songs could be…

Avenged Sevenfold’s “Hail To The King” scored no.1 in UK albums chart + album stream

Source Avenged Sevenfold logo The latest Avenged Sevenfold album, Hail To The King was actually released on 27th August this year, and in just 3 days it reached no.1 in UK’s albums chart. I mean, WOW, that was fast, and this is their first no.1 in UK ever. You can check out the top here. Actually according to Hits Daily Double, the album is also likely to sell almost 180,000 copies in the…

Avenged Sevenfold released new song: Hail To The King

Source First of all: WOW; I mean this song really rocks, and it’s different from what I’ve heard from Avenged Sevenfold before. These guys really want to go into metal industry the hard way (even though I still think that the name of the song is similar to Manowar songs). This new track is one of the songs from the band’s upcoming album, with the same name, which is set to…

M. Shadows talks about the new Avenged Sevenfold album

Source The band’s frontman, M. Shadows talks about their upcoming album, Hail To The King, which is going to be released on 27th August (if you ask me the album’s name sounds like a Manowar album). A couple of days ago, Synyster Gates also talked about their new album. Shadows said in a statement that: On this record, we want a very bare bones, riff-oriented approach… Because it’s really easy for us…

Synyster Gates talks about the new Avenged Sevenfold album

Source Not the best album artwork in the world In a recent interview for Revolver, the lead guitarist from Avenged Sevenfold talks about their upcoming album, Hail To The King, which is set to be released on 27th August, and claims that this one is “biggest record by f–king far” (Ah, I like this guy). I think our songwriting has improved by leaps and bounds. Sonically, this record is our biggest record by…

Avenged Sevenfold Post New Song Snippet

It just seems like Avenged Sevenfold are keen on giving us snipper after snippet – after they gave us a preview of their album and told us about their tracks a few months ago, they now posted another video teaser. Avenged Sevenfold have been very mysterious about this new release – everything was kept a secret, from the release date to pretty much any details regarding the album. The new release will mark the band’s…

Avenged Sevenfold release preview clip of upcoming album

Apparently, Avenged Sevenfold are getting a little sneakier with their marketing – they’re trying to jerk the expectation train as long as possible. While earlier this month, they offered the first preview of their album, now they’ve released a snipper of how the album will sound like. I’m not really sure what to say, and you should never judge a movie by its trailer, but it’s a good sign of what to expect – loud,…