Zacky Vengeance

When you see a band, you want to see characters.

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I like hip-hop, I like yay music.

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We're not a Screamo band.

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I've always loved big riffs and chunky guitars.

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I can't honestly say with a straight face that every Avenged Sevenfold album is my favorite.

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To be honest, we never, ever let business weigh down the creativity of this band.

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We're trying to do something nobody else is doing right now.

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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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We're in a league of our own darling and don't you forget it.

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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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We're focused on making our fans happy, keeping each other happy, so we can do this forever.

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That is one thing about playing with Guns N' Roses and Metallica: everyone wants to interview you.

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Even when we were at that point when we had very few fans, we never felt like a small band. We always…

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What makes Avenged so exciting to me musically is that people either love us or hate us, but nobody sounds like us.

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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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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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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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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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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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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 didn't say, 'Hey, we're gonna pick a bunch of cover songs,' or, 'We're gonna write an original song that has to…

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We like to be in touch with our fans, but we're also very private. 'Cause, to us, it's not about Zacky or…

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I've had the chance to watch Metallica's James Hetfield from the side of the stage night after night, listening to his monitors,…

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We're not the kind of people to just take a break and say everything's going good, you know, let's rest on our…

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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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After 'City of Evil,' the world was still kind of apprehensive about Avenged Sevenfold. They didn't know if we were a serious…

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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 really wanted to create an album that had no boundary or limit to it. There's nothing to say that we couldn't…

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When people doubt your abilities, the greatest joy on earth is making them eat their words.

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I like to start by wiggling my fingers on top of guitar strings.

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

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I can honestly tell you, if it wasn't for our fans, there would not be Avenged Sevenfold right now.

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

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I wanna keep people on their toes, and that's just kind of how we've always operated.

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

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There's always going to be haters, but those people are few. We're not too worried about it.

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My dad played some guitar, and both my parents are fans of music and have huge record collections.

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We've never tried to write radio hits. If I hear our song on the radio, it's cool, and I'm proud, but it's…

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From day one, we've always gotten backlash for certain outlandish ideas that we've had and presented. That's also kind of been the…

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The best part of being in a band and being successful is you get to have hot girls lace up your shoes.

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