Currently, Avenged Sevenfold is working on their eighth studio album, but in a recent interview with Metal Hammer , vocalist M. Shadows revealed which of the other seven albums is his favorite.
The big winner was the band's most recent album, The Stage (2018), which the singer spontaneously mentioned as his favorite. “That’s my favorite album we’ve ever made. We were at a specific point in our lives and things were changing. I’m very happy that we made it that way; we didn’t care about industry metrics,” he said.
Although there is still no release date, the band commented last month that the new album was "90% ready" and that it features the work of a full orchestra . Before that, M. Shadows had also commented that rapper Kanye West was a major influence on this Avenged Sevenfold project.
“The thing about Kanye is that he has references to a lot of soul music, which is great,” he commented. “We’re not trying to make a jazz album, but the note changes and progressions [of jazz] are very inspiring to us.”
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