Zacky Vengeance

I'd like to think that we will have had something to do with a shift back to heavy rock. That's what we've…

— Zacky Vengeance

When you start running out of things to do on a guitar, you have to find other ways of making music with…

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We're not a Screamo band.

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Some of the things we said looked worse than we meant them

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There was a time when metal ruled the world and I don't see any reason why it should be different now.

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Everything an artist does is scary, but we do it anyway. If someone tries to steer you off-course, push them outta the…

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To be honest, we spent many years at Warner, and in the very beginning, there was a very passionate team that worked…

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With 'Hail To The King' - our last album - we obviously wore our influences on our sleeve, and it was a…

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We wanna go back to Southeast Asia and just do it right for them.

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Mike Elizondo had an incredible array of guitars in the studio, but they were all right-handed.

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For us to dial back a little bit and have a little more straightforward, singalong appeal was a challenge. In order to…

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In terms of content and instrumentation, I feel we have been extremely ambitious on every one of our albums going back to…

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I remember when I was a kid, every time the Beatles were on the radio, my dad would say he'd give me…

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There's people that have never heard our album. The most they've seen is either our video on 'TRL' or our picture on…

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I like being able to do dueling leads, and it's fun to be able to shred.

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I absolutely remember when I decided upon playing Ernie Ball strings, and it was right then and there at the guitar store…

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Just by nature, we're always filled with so many ideas and want to cram as many ideas into a song as we…

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I have no formal guitar training whatsoever, so it's been fun learning sweep-picking techniques. Working on these types of licks has thrown…

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Only a world spinning out of control could inspire the music and vision we have now.

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Our first radio single, 'The Stage,' was eight-and-a-half minutes long. Unabashedly, we wanted to push the limits musically, lyrically, and instrumentation-wise.

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A great way to get your rhythm playing together is to work with a drummer, preferably someone that has a good groove…

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It's just so obscure to take a folk song in a different language and be a pretty well-respected English-speaking rock band and…

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'Waking the Fallen' truly encompasses everything that Avenged Sevenfold was at that time. It was us being fearless, us showing our roots…

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We wanted to write the kind of songs that can really cross any language barriers, any borders, and resonate with fans around…

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All the song choices that we've picked are unique in their own right. They're fun, and it's really just to engage our…

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