M. Shadows

We write music because we have to; it's a part of our very being.

— M. Shadows

WE'VE BEEN READING THE MÖTLEY CRÜE BOOK. THATS OUR HOLY BIBLE.

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If I ran the Grammys, it would probably go bankrupt.

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We love the idea of putting out music in a non-conventional way.

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Personally, I just want to hear good songs.

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I've never made a comment on a message board in my life.

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We are ever evolving and never repeat ourselves.

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I've always been a really open person around my friends.

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For me, a band like Gojira brings something really cool and new to the table.

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I just think that a metal band covering a bunch of metal songs is so boring, so 'done before.'

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Our band has always been really big on imagery. We've kind of used that as one of our strengths; we tend to…

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We go out there and kill it every night, and you can see what this means to people.

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If you make money, what's it worth if you can't be with your family?

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We really like having songs where we think the arrangement is just as important as the melodies, even though they're typically not.

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If people respect us as artists, they know we'll give them something different every time; they know we're pushing ourselves.

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We write when the time comes, and we try to be exciting, and stuff that excites us usually makes the record.

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When I'm by myself asking the questions that many of us do at some point in our lives, I look to the…

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The Brexit thing to me just looks like a difference of opinion. I know things were lied about, but that should be…

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The world is changing, and the way we consume music is obviously changing. I was one of the biggest CD advocates you…

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If you're going to put out a record just to get a No. 1 and then forget about it after the first…

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One thing that was frustrating to us, always, was having to do so much press building up an album, and you're asked…

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We're trying to change the whole way our merch is viewed, in terms of just not a bunch of skulls interlaced; you…

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Those who are not very good at understanding mental health issues are not going to know what other people are going through…

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When I was very young, it was Guns N' Roses and Metallica. I'd play air guitar on my bed. They've been the…

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The 'Black Album' was my real first introduction to Metallica. I was, like, 12 or 13 at the time. We were just…

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I think you gotta have balls to be an Avenged fan sometimes. A lot of our fans get hated on just as…

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We do a lot of things that kind of annoy people and our fan base. We try not to get overloaded on…

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When we were writing the 'Stage' album, we realized we'd never really done proper covers, where we were taking songs and making…

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I recall us selling out L.A.'s 5,000-capacity Gibson Amphitheatre and flying straight to Germany to play a 300-capacity room where we'd only…

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I'm kind of a geek when it comes to talking about chord structures or melody, so I always loved in-depth conversations with…

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People want things now. People in the rock world seem to not want to give it to them - they want to…

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We have this yearning to know the answers to the big questions about space and why we're here; we can't evolve fast…

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I just want to say we support the troops and we love every one of them. Even if they...I know a lot…

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We stand for musical individuality. That's all we stand for.

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Im too hung for womens underwear.

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Rock music will never die. We all know that.

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Growing up, I was always playing with video games.

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“Be yourself and like what you like, fuck everyone else.”

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We want metal to be dangerous again. How cool would that be?

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I think 'The Stage' is kind of left field.

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