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" That is one thing about playing with Guns N' Roses and Metallica: everyone wants to interview you. "
Zacky Vengeance
Interview
Everyone
Guns
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" Everyone likes to have fun. But when I look back on my life, I'm not going to say, 'Oh, we're the crazy party animals.' I'll look back and say, 'Wow, we did take this seriously.' We had fun while we were out doing it, but it's just the only thing you read about: 'They're a bunch of party animals.' To be honest, that's not true. "
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Have Fun
My Life
You
" I think everyone's trying to come up together and bring up other bands along the way, and we've always been really blessed to have bands like Metallica and Iron Maiden take us under their wing and say nice things about us. "
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Nice
Trying
Blessed
" We're trying to do something nobody else is doing right now. "
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Nobody
Else
Doing
" This country is filled with remarkable people. One of my best friend's families is from Iran, and they're the most American family of all time. Some of the best people that I've ever met are immigrants. "
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Family
Most
People
" 'Waking the Fallen' truly encompasses everything that Avenged Sevenfold was at that time. It was us being fearless, us showing our roots in heavy metal, punk, rock n' roll, and not being afraid to try everything under the sun when it comes to writing music. "
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Roots
Writing
Time
" 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. "
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Want
Think
People
" We're very historically tried and true when it comes to our albums. We pick the best songs; we get rid of the songs we feel don't fit on the album, and we don't work on remixing or remastering albums. "
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Tried
Best
Feel
" To be honest, we spent many years at Warner, and in the very beginning, there was a very passionate team that worked alongside us on a daily basis. Every year that went by, we would lose just about every single person that worked directly with us, to the point that I honestly couldn't have picked up a phone and gotten one person who knew me. "
Zacky Vengeance
Lose
Me
Phone
" I've had the chance to watch Metallica's James Hetfield from the side of the stage night after night, listening to his monitors, and his playing is so perfect. Slash is an amazing lead guitarist, but when you listen to his rhythm playing, you can hear how he pulls everything together with such a great feel, which is the most important thing. "
Zacky Vengeance
Amazing
Chance
Great
" 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. "
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High School
Band
Back
" A great way to get your rhythm playing together is to work with a drummer, preferably someone that has a good groove and plays solidly in time. "
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Great
Good
Time
" My dad played some guitar, and both my parents are fans of music and have huge record collections. "
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Fans
Parents
Music
" 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. "
Zacky Vengeance
Never
Us
Stage
" We're not a Screamo band. "
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Band
" I worked a lot on our album cover, and I didn't just want to post it on our website one day and move on. We wound up breaking it into 18 pieces and hiding them on fan sites all over the Internet and then posting clues, so fans could put together the puzzle. "
Zacky Vengeance
Puzzle
Internet
Day
" I'd like to think that we will have had something to do with a shift back to heavy rock. That's what we've wanted all along, and we knew there'd be fearless steps to take to achieve that. "
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Achieve
Back
Fearless
" To be honest, we never, ever let business weigh down the creativity of this band. "
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Band
Down
Honest
" Just by nature, we're always filled with so many ideas and want to cram as many ideas into a song as we can, and I think that gave us a lot of our signature sound. "
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Want
Nature
Ideas
" I wanna keep people on their toes, and that's just kind of how we've always operated. "
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Just
Always
How
" We have been harnessing every aspect of what makes Avenged truly unrelenting and building off of that. "
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Truly
Building
Been
" We go out there every night, and we fight the battle. We don't care about people who don't think we're true metal. We hope to change their minds. I have total faith. "
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Hope
Think
Night
" 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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Like
Want
Scared
" We're always talking and plotting and discussing what we can do to give our fans the best possible experience and leave everyone going home with having an amazing time and a memory that will last a lifetime. "
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Best
Time
Memory
" 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 laurels, act like rock stars - we take it very seriously, and we certainly aren't just celebrating and doing a victory lap. "
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People
Victory
Stars
" After 'City of Evil,' the world was still kind of apprehensive about Avenged Sevenfold. They didn't know if we were a serious band or just some kids trying to play really ambitious music with crazy guitar parts that would be here one minute and gone the next. "
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Music
World
Guitar
" We wanted to write the kind of songs that can really cross any language barriers, any borders, and resonate with fans around the world. "
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Language
World
Fans
" I think we are really in touch with what's going on around us in the world of music, trying to push the bar forward and try new and exciting things that our fans can react to. "
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Think
Forward
Music
" 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. "
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Generation
Fans
Turn
" On our first album, 'Sounding the Seventh Trumpet,' we were listening to more obscure heavy metal bands and hardcore bands. "
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Trumpet
Listening
Heavy Metal
" I have no formal guitar training whatsoever, so it's been fun learning sweep-picking techniques. Working on these types of licks has thrown a whole new collection of tricks into the mix. "
Zacky Vengeance
New
Fun
Learning