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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 driving force that's pushed us forward. "

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Teachers

Listening

Training

" You always have to try new things, and that's the one thing that we've learned from all the greats - every album isn't gonna be every fan's favorite, but as long as you keep switching it up and making new fans, it's really about being persistent. "

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

" I remember what it felt like when I was young, and I looked up to someone, and they would pay me just an ounce of attention. And some of the bands I listened to when I was young probably never even sold any albums, but it didn't matter to me. If I'd go up and say, 'Great show,' it would be amazing that they even would acknowledge me. "

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Amazing

Attention

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

" 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 fans. "

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

" For us to dial back a little bit and have a little more straightforward, singalong appeal was a challenge. In order to do that, we had to throw away a lot of stuff. "

Zacky Vengeance

Challenge

Straightforward

" I absolutely remember when I decided upon playing Ernie Ball strings, and it was right then and there at the guitar store up in Seattle when I picked up my first guitar ever. They said, 'What kind of strings should we put on it?' And I just looked at the brightest color package and said, 'That one!' "

" We wanted to incorporate lights and the like to really accentuate the music. We play mostly small venues, so we don't use it overboard by any means. The most important thing is the music. I think we do a good job of letting that show. "

" We had to take full advantage of the fact that we wanted to be one of the most creative bands out there that's getting backed by one of the biggest companies. "

" 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 never a goal. "

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

Zacky Vengeance

People

Nobody

" It was a big deal for us to be on Ozzfest, especially as one of the main headliners and being the band that wasn't announced: the mystery band. We'd never played the second stage at Ozzfest, and all of a sudden we're on the main stage. "

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Never

Stage

" We wanna be on the frontlines of everything new and exciting. The old world order of putting out four singles before you release an album is so boring to us. "

" We have been harnessing every aspect of what makes Avenged truly unrelenting and building off of that. "

" I think people have the right to love whoever they want, and I think that women have the right to do whatever they wish to their bodies given the circumstances. "

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

" We wanted to write songs that we really like that incorporate everything. It seems a lot of bands want to stick with one thing. We didn't want to be scared to do anything that we wanted to do. We didn't want anything to hold us back. We wanted no boundaries. "

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Want

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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 high school. We were the first screaming hardcore band to put a big ballad on our record. "

" The first review our band ever got - when I was 17 years old and we had just released our first EP, and this tiny little magazine wrote a review on it, and for that month, we were the best album of the month, and we were also the worst album of the month. We won best and worst album of the month in the same magazine. "

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

" I think, as long as people have a strong opinion, whether they love or hate us, I think we're doing something right. "

" With 'Hail To The King' - our last album - we obviously wore our influences on our sleeve, and it was a blatant attempt to turn on our younger generation of fans to more classic-sounding metal. "

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

" With any success, a lot of voices come out, and you start hearing a lot more opinions on the matter. We've provoked very strong reactions in both directions since day one. "

" I remember when I was a kid, every time the Beatles were on the radio, my dad would say he'd give me a dollar if I could tell him what band it was. So by the time I was about nine, I knew to just say 'The Beatles,' and I'd get a dollar out of it. "

" I've always loved big riffs and chunky guitars. "

" 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. "

" There are so many people involved in making an album, and naturally, all you want to do is show it to your friends and family. You just can't do any of that because all it takes is one morsel of information on the Internet. Within seconds, it's around the whole world. "