Avenged Sevenfold's M. Shadows - Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction?

This is em Shadows and you're watching Loudwire Hello everyone, Graham from Loudwire here and it's time for Wikipedia

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or, an episode you've been asking for for a long time M Shadows, thank you very much, it's great to have you here, thank you very much. for sitting with me, so this very day I went to Sevenfold's Wikipedia, the songs on your Wikipedia album, all those things brought up some things that you can tell me if it's

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. Okay, first, Matthew Charles Sanders, born in Huntington Beach. California I was born somewhere else, they get it wrong a lot, so where did he go?

I was born in Fountain Valley, which is also in California, as I remember now, okay, it was Fountain Valley, I think that's what it says at my birth. certificate, okay, then I'll trust the birth certificate next door, okay, that's fair, yes, okay, then a little fiction, we will always check that it says that you started singing at a young age, but your interest in rock and heavy metal really grew. As you learn to play the guitar, sure, okay, I mean, it's like a little statement with nuances, I guess I always knew that the big guns or that was going to come up, my dad gave me the first tape and I liked the rock music and then I wanted to buy a guitar and obviously I became more and more interested in it, so I guess it's true, okay, so the interest in rock came when you were singing, but then that pushed you towards the guitar.

I definitely wasn't singing, I was just listening. I'm not even sitting there listening, no, it's okay, I don't want to be a singer, they made me do it, when did you start singing? So we started a punk band and we were like me. He played the piano and I, you know I don't have one. perfect pitch where I can tell you what notes are being played, but I can always sing the notes that are played and I can understand what's going on, so I guess I had a natural ear for it, so you become the singer when you're in the high school or elementary school and people are starting with BAM, so you're like, oh, I guess I have to sing.

I'm the only one who can sing the key well, so I guess you didn't start singing. at a very young age as he said there is some fiction

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says you can play the clarinet no, I wish it were true. Okay, I thought that might have been true maybe in the high school band room. That's great. I love exactly that. just make it happen if it was much cooler if I could play the clarinet it would be pretty good those reeds are tough. I'm telling you, I'm telling everyone who thinks what instrument I should play, what I'm going to do.

I want to play an animal or say anything. I think about going to a dinner party or being 30 years old and someone just picks you to play the clarinet and you just kill it, it's cool. Wikipedia cites Guns and Roses as your biggest influence and says that Slash was one of the inspirations for Avenged Sevenfold coming up with stage names that's true, that's all true oh yeah, so when you were a kid seeing the name slash I guess you said oh, that's so cool, I have to have my own slash, was it a bit like that? a little bit, but it was more like we were part of a hardcore scene that was very critical and we knew that would make people angry, we had stage names and we loved risky people, so us and Guns N'Roses, one of the big ones boy bands yes.

You know, mostly, we think we're going to make some fake names and just ride with it. Yes, now you have a group of 36 year old men with older people. Would you be even worse off at eighty? You managed to piss off the stage stalwarts and absolutely you guys formed in '99 along with a sign of revenge? Reverend Matt was, everyone you knew from high school, yeah, that's all true, that's true, tell me about Matt was, I'm not. I feel like I don't know anything about him or anything about him, so Matt was a good friend of ours who liked all the punk rock that we liked and all the bands and he just said that one of our best friends played sports with him. the music was I'm an adult and then, you know, at some point he decided he was going to go to college, we actually saw him a couple of months ago in our last three, we went to the San Francisco show with him, it's amazing, it's he's got his family and he's doing politics and he's healing and it's amazing it was good to see oh that's cool I guess it worked out for him yeah that's cool he says playing the 7th trumpet was recorded just $2,000 ago and the Rev recorded all of his drums in one take, that's true.

Wow, it's all true, so I guess this is the first time you did a real recording with the Rev. You obviously knew how talented he was, but you were still surprised that he was able to do it. all in one take no, because we knew Jimmy, yeah, it's this, I guess it's like that and at the end there were mistakes and you just didn't read oom because it was going to ruin his one take, oh man, so I really wanted that to be that one here, yeah, and as you listen to the record progress because a lot of the songs that are at the end of the record were recorded later and you could see it was sloppier and sniper and it was amazing, it was fun. just you know, he clicked on the truck, obviously, it was all over the place, he had just played and he just wanted to do it in one take, he went around town in one take, he said you decided you didn't want to scream anymore shortly after it finished playing . of the seventh trumpet, of course, awakening fallen was a bit of a scream, so is it true or not?

It's something true. I mean, I don't remember exactly what the process was like, but I just felt like some of the songs I'm following, kid. and I remember the time when I wanted to have more and more voices and I remember that was a key part of the song writing and a lot of times it's so easy to rhyme that it's going to sound bad, but like that it's a lot easier to write weed and it just screams about them when you have to create a vocal melody and the chord progressions have to work and the vocal melody has to be interesting, it's much more challenging, but it's also much more satisfying for me once you achieve that and like we were.

Getting older, I kept getting more and more attracted to European power metal that sang like the blind guardians and the coast, so now the Arctic and I were getting further and further away from pure scream even though I like the ridge so much . Waking up the drop and you know we were right when we had good vocal parts, we just put it on and couldn't think of anything, we were screaming and then on the next version we said we were done with it. We're just going to go and put our work in and actually do the vocals on this one and it's the same thing, so I think in City of Evil we had a plan, but it was a very natural progression where we were unhappy screaming warmth in the soul credited here as

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and Synyster Gates credited as Synyster Gates GA whitey and it says on Wikipedia that it's because stage names weren't completely definitive at the time so Synyster Gates definitely wanted his name to be spelled GA and tes and then we're counting. prince, he said: I will change it to GA.

Well, then he was obviously gay-aware and then it wasn't as fun anymore, so he was like, "Okay, yeah, this is a little piece of heaven," and he was inspired by the tunes of Broadway shows and a video was made. animated for the song, but due to the song's controversial subject matter, Warner Brothers only released it to registered mvi users on the Internet. Yeah, I don't know, it's on the internet now so I don't know what the problem is. Yes, I know the song came straight from Jimmy's brain. I don't know if she was hired by anyone other than Mike Luongo Bungo.

I was very inspired by Danny Elfman, oh right, so I don't know if the show tunes are the right term, but I think the press ran that word after it came out, but it was really just that we were going to do the Halloween EP. and that was one of the songs that was going to be on it and when we were going to play it. The label when we delivered the album we had these extra songs and they came to us and told us why is this not on the album. We said it's like crazy and they say you guys are crazy if you don't put this up.

We're fine on the record, I'll put it on the record. It was probably a good decision of theirs, well, you know, I think a lot of them do. I was going to scrap our EP idea, we really were, but oh, not really. We need our Halloween EP, yeah hey, if I had a Halloween EP that would be cool you know, so we scrapped it and the label that made a good call there and said this is really cool, we didn't think they'd get it, you know ? What I mean is, we thought we were going to hand that in there, like we thought it says the Nightmare single was released digitally on May 18, 2010.

A preview of the song was released on May 6 on Amazon, but it was deleted shortly after for unknown reasons. I remember we were in Mexico and I remember we suddenly had all this fuss about a new album and then it leaked on Amazon, it completely ruined it, we couldn't make our plan, yeah, and they just jumped. the gun and I don't know if it was a mistake, a digital error or if it was just someone wanting to shoot, yeah, but we were in, we were all in Mexico hanging out and we were going crazy, yeah. as best you can, I'm really bummed because we wanted it to be released the way we wanted it to be released of course and since then I think we've really relaxed on that kind of thing mmm, it is what it is, it's the internet, it's going to come out. eventually it will be there and eventually it will be free, but at the time it was a new thing like, wow, they caught us, they're releasing this before we wanted it to come out, yeah, I guess back then leaks weren't as common now. it's like it's going to happen well unless your surprise release album isn't exactly then you leaked it yourself yeah yeah the last one for you says the scenario is Avenged Sevenfold's first concept album but it was planned that Nightmare It was a concept album, but the plans were scrapped.

After the revolutions passed, okay, so we were kicking around the idea of ​​doing Night Nights of Concent, right? But I don't even consider the stage concept album. I think it's completely fine, I mean, it's conceptual, you know, the ideas that go into it. together, but there's no story, there's no guy or you know, and I feel like there's not really a similar character and this is just the human race and it's about things that can fit between artificial intelligence, space exploration, etc., but I feel like it's conceptual. and they are and they are pieces, but I don't feel like this is a concept album, okay, José understood you, well, it was a nightmare.

It was once supposed to be a legitimate concept album, it's such early work, I mean the first song that Neymar was going to start with this. guy a dream and he wakes up and who knows, well, I mean, that's where he was going, but then when something happens, you know in your life that it changes exactly what you're going to draw inspiration from, so it's almost an element constant. Same thing in scenarios, everything is based on you at that point, so I think there are two conceptual registers, but I wouldn't say that in the content it's fair, man, thank you very much.

I appreciate it, go to the stage if you haven't already. deluxe edition and also live on the acoustic album of the Grammy Museum in

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