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Avenged Sevenfold

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Alternative Metal
Heavy Metal
Metal Core

http://avengedsevenfold.com
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/avengedsevenfold
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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'
30 окт 2024 :
29 окт 2024 :	Watch: AVENGED SEVENFOLD Plays Special Club Show Celebrating 'Waking The Fallen' And 'City Of Evil' Albums
25 окт 2024 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD Shares Cover Of MISFITS' 'Skulls'
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'
14 авг 2024 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD Announces Club Show Celebrating 'Waking The Fallen' And 'City Of Evil' Albums
8 авг 2024 :	M. SHADOWS On AVENGED SEVENFOLD's Success: 'We're Extremely Lucky'
19 июл 2024 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD Share Europe / UK Life Is But A Dream... Tour 2024 Recap Video
29 июн 2024 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD Share Germany 2024 Recap Video
19 июн 2024 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD's JOHNNY CHRIST On Stage Production For 'Life Is But A Dream…': We Were Able To Take It To Another Level'
12 июн 2024 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD's M. SHADOWS Says Metal 'Should Have No Rules': 'Just Do Whatever You Want'
11 июн 2024 :	Why AVENGED SEVENFOLD Performed 'Dear God' Live For First Time In 15 Years During Jakarta Concert
8 май 2024 :	JOHNNY CHRIST: 'It Would Be A Huge Honor' For AVENGED SEVENFOLD To Get Inducted Into ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME
3 апр 2024 :	Watch: AVENGED SEVENFOLD Closes Out 2024 Leg Of North American Tour In Newark
20 мар 2024 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD Shares Music Video For 'Cosmic'
10 мар 2024 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD Kicks Off 2024 Leg Of 'Life Is But A Dream…' North American Tour In Buffalo
4 мар 2024 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD Releases Immersive Concert 'Looking Inside' With AmazeVR
13 фев 2024 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD's M. SHADOWS Explains Why He Prefers Headlining Arenas Over Performing At Festivals
6 фев 2024 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD's JOHNNY CHRIST On Making 'Life Is But A Dream…' Album: 'We Approached It Very Differently'
4 фев 2024 :	AVENGED SEVENFOLD's Immersive Interactive Concert To Be Released This Month

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'

During a recent appearance on the "Artist Friendly With Joel Madden" podcast, AVENGED SEVENFOLD frontman M. Shadows discussed religion and spirituality. The 43-year-old singer, whose real name is Matt Sanders, said in part (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I'm not religious at all. But I find beauty in no purpose. And I've found a lot of positivity in there being no purpose 'cause I feel like that's the ultimate freedom. I don't want to be told what needs to happen. I want to have my own path. And for me, it's all the simple things we all come back to, and it's all the things that religion would teach you. It's love. It's my family. It's empathy. It's trying to further the human conversation. But the difference here is if you said, 'Matt, does any of it matter?' I would say, 'No.' I would say at the very end, the only reason it matters is 'cause while you're here, I don't like to see suffering… I believe that if you look in a even a five-billion-year time frame when Earth gets wiped out, I believe nothing will ever know we were here. It doesn't matter."

Elaborating on why he is not religious, M. Shadows said: "I look at it like this. I look at deep history. And there's no sign of… I mean, you could always always go back, back, back. And the thing that God has going for it is you can always go, 'Well, what created that?' And you can always go further back. These are just conversations that go in circles. But let's say we have a Big Bang [a physical theory that describes how the universe expanded from an initial state of high density and temperature]… And my question would be, at what point did God start taking notice or care? Was it 2000 years ago? Was he, like, 'Those guys are kind of apes, but they're kind of looking like this new thing that I'm into. I'm gonna send Jesus out in a couple thousand years.' And so there's a bunch of funny things to me.

"I understand that people that believe in God, now they've become more savvy," M. Shadows continued. "So, they go, 'Well, I'm not talking about the guy in the sky. I'm talking about a feeling' or a consciousness.

"When you wanna know what you feel is the truth and you read as much as you can on it, there's a shock to the system, which makes me think it's very much evolutionary and how it's based in a human. 'Cause there's very few things that will make your body chill to the bone. The day that I realized that God was not a feasible option for me, my whole body just shook in fear. And I know that is usually the spot where most people go, 'Okay, I'm going back. I'm gonna run back to it.' And so I just was calm and I just continued to read and see if I could find things on either side.

"The belief in God and the comfort in God almost feels like I'm going to carry on in some way or there's a me, and a lot of the philosophy that that I believe in is that there is no you," M. Shadows added. "That's what [the AVENGED SEVENFOLD song] 'Nobody''s about. Like, there's no you. You are one with the whole universe. Now, God might have his hands around the whole universe, but at that point, you're in an ocean.

"So, when I did 5-MeO-DMT [also known as O-methylbufotenin or mebufotenin, a psychedelic drug that occurs naturally in plants and some animals], the point of it is to wipe away you… It's very scary. But one thing that it led me to was, I have this friend, Jeremiah, who became very religious as of late. And we'd argue with each other — back and forth… So when I did 5-MeO, it's called the 'God [Molecule]'. And you lose yourself. You don't exist when you're on this. And it's not correct for English words or any words. You actually come back and you can't even talk. But the next day I saw Jeremiah, and I gave him a hug and I said, 'You were right all along. He exists.' And I gave him a hug, 'cause I realized at that moment it didn't matter, regardless. And I just said what he believes in and what I experienced was the same thing. He puts a name on it, and I was just one with the universe and with every human that ever existed. And when you listen to 'Nobody', the first lyric is 'I'm a God. I'm awake. I'm the one in everything.' And it's because I'm taking those words and I'm changing them to what you think they mean. I don't think I'm up there making decisions."

M. Shadows went on to say: "There's an old Buddhist saying, 'Enlightenment is when the wave realizes it's the ocean.' It's when you realize you're just one with everything and you're just ebbing and flowing. And so when I realized that, I realized Jeremiah was right all along. What he believes in and what guides him in life, what he calls God is just a technicality. It was all the same thing. And so it was actually an interesting way to come back around to everything."

As previously reported, AVENGED SEVENFOLD will embark on a European tour in June 2025. The 12-date trek will consist of appearances at some of the continent's biggest rock festivals, including Norway's Tons Of Rock, Czech Republic's Rock For People and Greece's Release.

AVENGED SEVENFOLD launched the 2024 leg of the "Life Is But A Dream…" North American tour on March 6 at KeyBank Center in Buffalo, New York. The band's 2024 run included AVENGED SEVENFOLD's first-ever performances in Manchester, New Hampshire; Raleigh, North Carolina; and Newark. The group performed in Des Moines, Iowa for the first time in 18 years; Cleveland, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the first time in 15 years.

AVENGED SEVENFOLD has been touring in support of its latest album, "Life Is But A Dream…", which sold 36,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in its first week of release to land at position No. 13 on the Billboard 200 chart.

AVENGED SEVENFOLD made its first festival appearance in five years on May 19, 2023 at Welcome To Rockville at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.

AVENGED SEVENFOLD's first concert since June 2018 took place on May 12, 2023 at AREA15 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

To date, AVENGED SEVENFOLD has sold over 10 million albums worldwide and earned two consecutive No. 1 albums on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart (2010's "Nightmare" and 2013's "Hail To The King") to go along with over a billion video views and a billion-plus Spotify streams, as well as multiple No. 1 singles on rock radio.

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15 янв 2025

Nihel

Видимо в силу того, что я не хуярил этот метилбутилдрочил, его поток сознания кажется мне каким то адским бредом. Похоже до просветления мне ещё далеко.

15 янв 2025

rassol

Типичная картина последствий обжорства галлюциногенами и психоделиками.