If you’re hoping for a new album for Avenged Sevenfold any time soon, you may be disappointed to know you’re going to have to wait for it.
Avenged Sevenfold frontman M. Shadows sat down with Bradley Hall to discuss what’s next for the band, stating:
“So I don’t know…I think we’ll probably just spend some time with out families, and there’s always that creative itch, and jotting down ideas–whether it’s on your iPhone or whether it’s into Pro Tools, and just having this sort of bag that Santa’s got over his shoulder, and maybe dig through the presents at some point and see if there’s anything that’s like, ‘Oh! Let’s get into it!’ But right now I think it’s just in accumulation mode.”
He continued, saying:
“The next process would really be taking long walks, go on a bike ride, play some sports. DO some things where your mind is not being consumed by this attention economy we live in. And then once those ideas start coming, you can jot them down. Because I think it’s really hard for most people to go, ‘Okay, I’m gonna write from 2-6,’ and then you just go and sit down and stare at a computer, or you star at your guitar. The best guitar riffs sometimes happn when you’re walking down the street and you hear a noise, or you have an idea… We need to live a little bit of life before we go into the next thing, and see where it takes us.”
Avenged Sevenfold released their LP “Life Is But A Dream…” in 2023 and has a European tour scheduled for summer 2025.