Avenged Sevenfold just released their long-awaited new album, Life Is But a Dream… earlier this summer, an experimental and subversive record that leaned into the unpredictability of pushing boundaries, but it sounds like the Deathbat crew already have a follow-up in the works.
In a new interview on the Loudwire Nights podcast, frontman M. Shadows revealed that the band have ambitious plans for their ninth album, and he hopes that the band will be able to get into the studio “sooner than later” to start the process.
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“There’s something vastly different in the works,” Shadows teased. “There were some avenues on this record that we really wanted to explore.”
At this point, the interviewer brings up Nine Inch Nails’ evolution between The Downard Spiral and The Fragile.
“I appreciate that comparison because I love that record,” Shadows said. “There is so much chaos and then there’s beauty in the chaos. I think of [Weezer’s] Pinkerton, that’s another record that’s chaotic but so beautiful.”
“There are things that were left on the sides of [Life Is but a Dream…] that didn’t quite make it that can be explored [and] that I think will be incredible,” Shadows added of the band’s next release. “That will be a very cool, soothing sort of connection to this record.”
Listen to Shadows’ podcast appearance below.
This article was originally published on RevolverMag.com and was edited by Alternative Press.
