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Avenged Sevenfold

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Alternative Metal
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3 авг 2026 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD's M. SHADOWS: 'We Don't See A Point Of Ever Being On A' Record 'Label Again'
26 июл 2026 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD Surprise Releases New Four-Song EP, 'Statica'
21 май 2026 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD Is Now 'A Fully Independent Band'
13 апр 2026 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD's ZACKY VENGEANCE: 'We Learned A Ton' From Touring With METALLICA
16 мар 2026 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD's ZACKY VENGEANCE: 'We Always Lean Into Heavy Music, 'Cause That's Just What We Love'
28 фев 2026 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD's ZACKY VENGEANCE Releases 'Lighthouse' Single From Upcoming 'Dark Horse' Solo Album
22 янв 2026 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD's M. SHADOWS: 'We're Gonna Start Seeing More' Rock 'Legends Passing Away'
19 янв 2026 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD's M. SHADOWS: 'I Don't Really Think About Staying True To Anything But Ourselves'
23 дек 2025 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD's ZACKY VENGEANCE On His Solo Project: I Was 'Longing To Create Something Using My Own Voice'
18 дек 2025 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD's ZACKY VENGEANCE Releases Debut Solo Single, 'Dark Horse'
8 дек 2025 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD Releases New Song 'Magic' As Part Of 'Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7' Season 1
25 окт 2025 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD Shares Cover Of MISFITS' 'Some Kinda Hate'
27 сен 2025 :	BROOKS WACKERMAN Reflects On His AVENGED SEVENFOLD Audition: 'I Didn't Think I Got The Gig'
20 июн 2025 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD's M. SHADOWS On Constantly Challenging Fans With New Projects: 'When I Wake Up In The Morning, I Wanna Be Excited'
12 май 2025 :	BROOKS WACKERMAN: How I Landed AVENGED SEVENFOLD Gig
15 апр 2025 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD's M. SHADOWS 'Couldn't Care Less' About Your Opinion Of His Band's Music: 'We're Not Making Art By Committee'
22 фев 2025 :	M. SHADOWS Says 'It's Incredibly Hard' For AVENGED SEVENFOLD To Make Money On Tour Right Now
14 янв 2025 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD's M. SHADOWS: 'The Day I Realized God Was Not A Feasible Option For Me, My Whole Body Shook In Fear'
22 дек 2024 :	SYNYSTER GATES On AVENGED SEVENFOLD Playing Full Albums On Anniversary Tours: 'It Doesn't Really Interest Us'
16 ноя 2024 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD Shares Video Recap Of Club Show Celebrating 'Waking The Fallen' And 'City Of Evil' Albums
31 окт 2024 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD's M. SHADOWS No Longer Regrets 'The Stage''s Surprise Release: 'I'm So Proud Of The Way It Was Released'
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22 окт 2024 :	M. SHADOWS Explains Why AVENGED SEVENFOLD Isn't Interested In Performing Entire Old Albums On Tour
20 окт 2024 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD Launches Virtual 'Museum'

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AVENGED SEVENFOLD's M. SHADOWS: 'We Don't See A Point Of Ever Being On A' Record 'Label Again'

During an appearance on the latest episode of "Delivering Happiness", the unscripted celebrity-driven series and podcast hosted by actor Nick Turturro for Prince St. Pizza, AVENGED SEVENFOLD singer M. Shadows elaborated on the group's recent announcement that it is now "a fully independent band" after completing its deal with Warner with the arrival of the "Life Is But A Dream…" album, which came out in June 2023. M. Shadows said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "We did eight records with [Warner], and then we are done with record labels. So we're a fully independent band now. Three years ago was our last album we had to do with [Warner], and then because of the way the music industry is now, we just don't see a point of ever being on a label again. They really can't do much for you. They'll tell you they can do a lot, but they can't. There's no radio that matters. There's no MTV. They're gonna try to get you on TikTok, which everyone can do themselves. In my opinion, they don't bring anything extra [to the table]."

Asked by Turturro what major labels used to do for bands like AVENGED SEVENFOLD in the earlier days of the group's career, M. Shadows said: "Well, they'd give you an advance. You had no money, so they'd give you money to record a record. They would hook you up with producers or engineers, mixers, and then they would go pay Walmart and Target to put you on the endcaps, and then they'd pay radio stations to play you. It's called payola. It was illegal, but they'd do it. And then they would go hound MTV and get your records played on national television. Now it's all gone. So I can go upload something on YouTube and on TikTok, and I can go play shows. I can make more money in one show than it would cost to make a record than they can give you, and when they give you the money, you're paying four times what that money is to get it back. So there's just no point."

Regarding how things have changed in the music business in recent years, M. Shadows said: "The industry just blew it all open. And people are still very late to move. They're looking at it going, 'Well, it's really cool to tell my grandparents that I'm on Universal Records.' But really, Universal Records gives you $25,000, you have to make 100,000 to pay that back. Every penny. And so if you can afford it yourself, you should do it yourself. 'Cause there is no MTV. There is no KROQ anymore that's gonna play something modern. They don't. They play all the old stuff. So there's no point."

Asked if he would prefer the business to be like it is today or like when he started, if he had the freedom to choose one or the other, M. Shadows said: "I absolutely love where everything's at right now. I think it's super interesting, and it creates way more artistic freedom 'cause people can do whatever they want, and either it works or it doesn't and you kind of move and pivot. When you have radio stations and MTV and this and that, you get a lot of favorites being played because 'this worked, so go make more stuff like that.' There's not a lot of creativity there. It's basically based on, what are people listening to? And so the art form really becomes a full-on product. It's just, like, make more of the product. And that's not really what music should be. It should be a free expression. But I will say I'm extremely grateful that we came around during a time where we could get our foot in the door and sell a ton of records, and we were on MTV and we were on radio stations. So it really catapulted the band in a way that the normal kid that's playing 'Call Of Duty' or 'Madden' hears our music on there because there's these drivers. But if I had to choose — right now, I love the way the industry is now because people can throw such creative stuff at the wall, and you can go find it, and it's amazing. But that comes with the caveat of you're not gonna get as big as you could've… We're kind of like a hinge band. We have our left leg in the old, and we have our right leg fully focused on what's happening now. And we got to see both, where the younger generation, they have no clue what it was like to walk into Walmart and buy a record that was on an endcap. Or to turn on MTV and 'TRL''s on and your favorite band's number one on 'TRL', and you're calling and voting. It doesn't exist anymore. But that's what I grew up with. And it was fun. It was exciting. But it's changed."

In an April 2023 interview with Overpriced JPEGs, M. Shadows spoke about AVENGED SEVENFOLD's plans for releasing new music following the completion of the band's deal with Warner. Asked if AVENGED SEVENFOLD would go the "independent" route for its future releases, Shadows — whose real name is Matt Sanders — said: "Imagine writing out like a bullet point of things that we're not willing to budge on, and then we will… We wanna make music whenever we want, put it out, we wanna surprise-release things if we want, we wanna do this and that. Sometimes artists sign into a label but it's a distro deal where the label gets eight to 10 percent and then they'll distribute the record. They might even pay for the record to get done, but the band takes care of the other things. So there's so many ways to kind of slice this pie. We just know what we're not willing to do. And what we're not willing to do is just sign into the same kind of thing we have going on now. Now if the next record says Warner Brothers or Universal on it, it doesn't mean that we re-signed with a label; it means that maybe we're using them for distribution, maybe we're doing a licensing deal."

The singer continued: "We don't know what we're gonna do. Maybe we go to all the streaming services and make our own relationships with them and do our own thing. But at that point, when you're talking about an eight percent cut, you have to weigh and balance how much you wanna take on. Do we wanna pay for the record and the publicist and the radio people and all that stuff, or do we let the label do it and have a much better deal? One thing I've learned is that don't make decisions a year and a half out. Right now the record's not out. We have 18 months to live with them, see how they do on this record. And there's certain things we'll never do again, and there's certain things that I'm gonna look at. What we're gonna do is just make the best deal we can for where we're at. So, maybe [we'll be] independent, maybe not."

Back in April 2022, M. Shadows spoke to "The Bob Lefsetz Podcast" about the fact that Warner sued AVENGED SEVENFOLD in late 2015 after the band left the label by citing the California Labor Code's "seven-year rule." The rule allows for parties to exit contracts after seven years if certain unfavorable conditions exist. The band then moved on to Capitol, which issued "The Stage" as a surprise release in October 2016, promoted with a concert on top of the Capitol building.

The singer explained how AVENGED SEVENFOLD ended up returning to Warner, saying: "There's a lot that goes into that. We pulled the old seven-year clause that we were trying to get out of our deal, but the reality is we wanted our masters back — we wanted to make some sort of deal and be able to own our recordings, or possibly re-sign and get a check, all the things you can do. And then we started thinking about the seven-year clause and we actually wanted to see if we could help artists out in a way.

"The people that we had a problem with at Warner Brothers that simply weren't engaged in the band had left, and some new people came in and they flew out and we basically broke bread and said this record we did with Capitol Records, come back to Warner Brothers, finish up your deal and we'll deal with it from there. So, obviously a lot of rabbit holes in there."

Elaborating on why AVENGED SEVENFOLD was so unhappy with Warner Bros. before going back to the label, M. Shadows said: "[When] our 2014 record, 'Hail To The King', came out, we just noticed that no one at the label cared about our band. Basically, they'd come to the recordings, they'd come and check out the record, and it was just everyone's on their phone, and there was just no support. So we tried to get a better deal or at least get our masters back and get out of there. We went over to Capitol Records and put out a record. I think we're the only band that actually put out an album while we were still in some sort of litigation over the seven-year clause which caused a huge uproar between the labels and ourselves."

Pressed by Lefsetz about how Capitol feels about AVENGED SEVENFOLD returning to Warner Bros. after the band released only one album through the former label, M. Shadows said: "We went to Capitol and they knew the situation we were in, obviously. They're not dummies — they're not gonna sign us and say, 'We're getting into some long-term deal here.' We were under the idea that we would get our record back. They were basically putting one record out for us, and then we'd be free. So I think they kind of probably expected something like that to happen. When the regime change happened with Warner Brothers, and obviously the amounts of money we were spending arguing with them back and forth, it was obviously… the smart thing to do was just kind of put it to bed. So I think Capitol, they're fine. They got their one record, and we went out and worked it — we toured for a long time on it. And now we're back to finishing up our contract."

A provision in the California Labor Code's "seven-year rule" allows labels to collect money that would have been made on undelivered albums. In its lawsuit against AVENGED SEVENFOLD, Warner Bros. sought damages based on the fact that the band had one album left on its contract, while the group argued that extensive turnover in the label's staff led to an unsatisfactory working relationship. Had it lost the case, AVENGED SEVENFOLD would have faced a verdict between $5 million and $10 million. Warner Bros. was also allowed to seek its attorney fees — which by 2018 had amounted to more than $1.5 million.

"The Stage" debuted at No. 4 on The Billboard 200 album chart in November 2016. The surprise release of the disc earned the lowest sales of an AVENGED SEVENFOLD album in eleven years. It sold 76,000 copies in its first week, less than half the tally of its previous two efforts.

A few years ago, M. Shadows told The Pulse Of Radio that AVENGED SEVENFOLD was aware of the risks in such an unusual release. "One thing that we knew, you know, all the analytics proved that, you know, we shouldn't do this because of the way that rock fans consume music," he said. "You know, it's very physical-heavy, and one thing we knew is that we had to get records in stores, but we were gonna be basically setting ourselves up for a leak, which would have been a huge disaster. But Capitol Records did an amazing job of being able to get these records into stores, so we were able to be the first band to actually have a physical and digital release that was a surprise."

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3 авг 2026

GlowoErzum

Ну такую наркоманию, как STATICA, они бы точно финансировать не стали. Так что правильно сделали, что съебали.