If you’re asking yourself why Avenged Sevenfold aren’t playing any shows right now, you’re not alone. Besides the obvious note of there being a pandemic and all, the band doesn’t have a new album of material to support a new live show with. Considering the band’s stature, it requires a lot more time and effort to put together a, well, stage setup.
With a host of new Gold and Platinum certifications under their collective belts, it appears Avenged Sevenfold will indeed be releasing a new album soon. Or at the very least, finishing up work on it.
Having already said the new album will sound nothing like The Stage, vocalist M. Shadows revealed much about the upcoming new record, helpfully transcribed by Blabbermouth.
As we mentioned before, there’s plenty of reasons the band is reluctant to play shows and tour right now. The biggest of which, M. Shadows revealed, is because they have to shell out a significant amount of money to build a new setup for their stage show…
“It’s not that we don’t want to [book dates],” he said. “It’s just that we have to be very careful about getting everything going, building a whole new stage set, hiring everybody, renting buses and then having one person get sick and the tour gets canceled and we get to be on the hook for everything. And it’s not that we don’t wanna do it.
“People compare us to bands that are going and playing clubs,” he continued. “It’s not the same thing. Getting an arena tour going and playing these festivals, it’s just not the same thing. And also we wanna be mentally ready.
“These are all gonna sound like crazy excuses, but these are real. We have a huge stage that we wanna get built. We can’t get people to work. We can’t get the supplies we need to build it, which there’s a supply chain problem as well. Go look at the Long Beach, at the port right now, and these boats are just stuck out there. And so we have all these things going on where we’re not gonna come back on stage and have the stage from ‘The Stage’ record and then just go, ‘Well, same show four years later. Sorry, guys. The record’s not done ’cause we couldn’t finish it.’
Fair enough. It would be a little insane to still be supporting The Stage considering it’s five (!!!) years old at this point. M. Shadows also gave us more of a timeline on when the album might be finished, saying…
“So, I would just say starting in January, we are gonna put our nose to the grind and we are gonna finish this [new AVENGED SEVENFOLD] record,” M. Shadows added. “And then we’re doing a couple of shows in Europe. And then I would love to — and I don’t wanna step on [festival organizer] Danny Wimmer’s toes here — but I would love to start at [the] Aftershock [festival in October 2022] and then book a tour out from there.
“So, we’re gonna be doing stuff. But, yeah, it’s just kind of making sure we’re mentally there and we put our best foot forward when we do come out and make sure that it’s all good.”
Soooooooo there you have it, folks. If the new album is wrapped up next month (or even into February), there’s a good likelihood new music won’t be far behind – along with likely the band’s highly-anticipated new album as well. Meanwhile, enjoy “Beast And The Harlot”.
