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Avenged Sevenfold tour dates 2024

Avenged Sevenfold is currently touring across 13 countries and has 19 upcoming concerts.

Their next tour date is at GBK Sport complex in Jakarta, after that they'll be at Barclays Arena in Hamburg.

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🇮🇩 Indonesia
🇨🇭 Switzerland
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇵🇹 Portugal

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GBK Sport complex

Barclays Arena

Rock im Park

Rock am Ring

St. Jakobshalle

Download Festival

Ippodromo del Visarno

Firenze Rocks Festival

Nova Rock Festival

Westfalenhalle

Graspop Metal Meeting

Resurrection Fest

Hellfest Open Air

Evil Live Festival

Rockin Red Dirt Ranch

Rocklahoma Festival

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Prudential Center

Thompson-Boling Arena

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That show, in SLC Utah, was phenomenal. They're just amazing people who worked so hard and got where they deserve to be. I enjoyed watching the result of their hard work, and I plan to watch more shows that come around. I want to see them succeed more and accomplish more stuff in the future. They're such great people, amazing artists, great role models for aspiring musicians everywhere, and (by the twitter videos) they're amazing parents. I'll always be a death bat, not only for their music but for them as human beings. God Damn.

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Well, I'm not sure which show I'm supposed to review, so I'll do both. I saw them on Friday at shoreline amphitheater and then on Monday at golden one center. For the 1st show we had lawn tickets, it was still good. This was my 6th time seeing them. It was my 13 year old son's 1st concert. They always put on an excellent show.

Mondays show was the best one I've been to,my 7th time seeing them , because we were right up front on the floor. It was awesome. The crowd gets pretty aggressive, but I already knew that. I ended up being pulled out from security for trying to break up a fight, so that wasn't fun, but nothing against the band, they rocked.

What an amazing live performance. They kept the audience engaged the entire time. I'm not their biggest fan but there was a few songs that I wish had been on the set list that weren't. Then again, that's just my preference. Regardless, Matt has an amazing voice and I was blown away. The only thing that bothered me was that the sound mix seemed a bit off which sucks because that's obviously not the band's fault. At first the bass was so low that anytime the guitars started playing harmonies the sound got really thin/empty. Also I thought that Synyster was playing sloppily (which I would have been extremely surprised if that was the case) because some parts in his solos seemed inaudible but I finally realized that the guitars were getting smothered in the mix. I only notice this stuff because I play in a band and do live shows myself so it probably didn't bother too many people besides me. Overall, 10/10 live performance, and I would totally go see them again. (Hopefully at another venue)

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AVENGED SEVENFOLD Announce European Tour with FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH & DEVICE

After 3 long years we'll be returning to European soil for our biggest shows ever. Joining us will be special guests Five Finger Death Punch, as well as Device (feat. David Draiman of Disturbed.

11/8 – Stockholm, Sweden – Hovet 11/9 – Oslo, Norway – Spektrum 11/11 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Falconer 11/12 – Hamburg, Germany – Sporthalle 11/14 – Munich, Germany – Zenith 11/15 – Frankfurt, Germany – Jahrhunderthalle 11/17 — Bochum, Germany – Ruhrkongress 11/19 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Ziggo Dome 11/20 – Paris, France – Zenith 11/22 – Vienna, Austria – Stadthalle 11/23 – Milan, Italy – Forum 11/25 – Barcelona, Spain – Pavelo Olimpic 11/26 – Madrid, Spain – Palacio Vistalegre 11/27 – Lisbon, Portugal — Campo Pequeno 11/30 – Manchester, England – MEN 12/1 – London, England — Wembley 12/3 – Dublin, Ireland — O2 Arena 12/5 – Birmingham, England – NIA

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Avenged Sevenfold Extend 2023 Tour Dates: Ticket Presale Code & On-Sale Info

by Francesco Marano

Published april 11, 2023.

Avenged Sevenfold added 2023 tour dates in conjunction with their upcoming album, Life Is But A Dream.. . The LP is scheduled for release on June 2.

The newly planned fall concerts are set in September and October with Falling In Reverse on select dates. The band previously announced shows at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles on June 9, Madison Square Garden in New York City on June 23, and July and August dates with opening band Alexisonfire. Avenged Sevenfold also have festival performances lined up at Welcome to Rockville, Sonic Temple, Aftershock, and Louder Than Life.

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When do avenged sevenfold 2023 tour tickets go on sale and what is the presale code.

For the new dates, the general public on-sale begins as early as April 14. Presale registration is currently open for Avenged Sevenfold's "Deathbat Nation" fan club and will close on April 12. Presales for VIP packages, Citi cardholders, and email subscribers begin April 12. Spotify, Ticketmaster, Live Nation, LN Mobile App., and local venues / radio presales will follow. Tickets for the previously announced shows are now on sale. Keep in mind, each date is different and details are subject to change.

The email subscriber presale password is WELOVEYOU . The Ticketmaster presale password is DREAMA7X . The Live Nation presale password is VINYL , and the LN Mobile App code is COVERT . For the Citi presale, you can use the promo passcode 412800 , but you will need the card to complete your purchase. Click through the individual concert links for more information about the show you're interested in.

For the most up-to-date information, follow Avenged Sevenfold on social media, in addition to checking your local venue's social media and email subscription service.

Watch the music video for the new song " Nobody ." For more, check out Avenged Sevenfold's Zumic artist page .

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Avenged Sevenfold play live debuts, deep cuts and one long-lost classic at first 2024 concert

Avenged Sevenfold started their 2024 Life Is But A Dream… tour in Buffalo, New York’s Keybank Center on Wednesday (March 6) and played a setlist featuring rarities and live debuts.

Along with five songs from new album Life Is But A Dream… , the California arena-metal quintet performed Roman Sky , a cut from 2016’s The Stage that had never been played in public before.

Cosmic , from Life Is But A Dream… , also received its live debut at the concert. It joined four other, previously played songs from the album on the setlist: Game Over , Mattel , Nobody and We Love You .

Blinded In Chains , a deep cut from City Of Evil (2005), was performed for the first time since 2006, while Save Me , from Nightmare (2010), got its first airing in 13 years.

One of the band’s biggest singles also got unearthed. Hail To The King song Shepherd Of Fire was busted out for the first time since 2018.

Footage from the concert has been embedded below, along with the full setlist.

Avenged Sevenfold are still touring North America, continuing with a concert at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, Ohio, tomorrow (March 9). The band will conclude their trek of the continent on March 31.

Following a show in Jakarta, Indonesia, on May 25, Avenged Sevenfold will then tour Europe, playing festivals and arenas. The stops include a headline performance at Download festival, alongside fellow headliners Fall Out Boy and Queens Of The Stone Age.

Life Is But A Dream… was released last year and received critical acclaim. Metal Hammer journalist Dave Everley gave the record a glowing four-and-a-half-star review .

“Yes, Life Is But A Dream… is indulgent. Of course it is,” Everley wrote. “A lot of people won’t want to come along for the ride, and how this stuff is going to fit alongside their older material live is anyone’s guess.

“But Avenged Sevenfold have scaled the mountain and looked out over all that surrounds them, then plunged headfirst into the void, not knowing where, when or even if they’ll land. What kind of madness is this? The very best kind.”

The full list of Avenged Sevenfold’s confirmed 2024 tour dates is below. Tickets are available on the band’s website.

Avenged Sevenfold setlist – Keybank Center, Buffalo, NY, March 6

Game Over Mattel Afterlife Hail To The King We Love You Shepherd Of Fire (first performance since 2018) The Stage Roman Sky (live debut) Blinded In Chains (first performance since 2006) Bat Country Nobody Nightmare Unholy Confessions Save Me (first performance since 2011) Cosmic (live debut)

Avenged Sevenfold 2024 tour dates:

Mar 9: Cleveland Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, OH Mar 11: Grand Rapids Van Andel Arena, MI Mar 13: Cincinnati Heritage Bank Center, OH Mar 15: Des Moines Wells Fargo Arena, IA Mar 16: Lincoln Pinnacle Bank Arena, NE Mar 18: Moline Vibrant Arena At The Mark, IL Mar 19: Indianapolis Gainbridge Fieldhouse, IN Mar 21: Uncasville Mohegan Sun Arena, CT Mar 23: Manchester SNHU Arena, NH Mar 25: Pittsburgh PPG Paints Arena, PA Mar 26: Columbus Nationwide Arena, OH Mar 28: Knoxville Thompson–Boling Arena, TN Mar 29: Raleigh PNC Arena, NC Mar 31: Newark Prudential Center, NJ

May 25: Jakarta Jota Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia

Jun 5: Hamburg Barclays Arena, Germany Jun 7: Nürburg Rock Am Ring, Germany Jun 9: Nürnberg Rock Im Park, Germany Jun 11: Basel St Jakobshalle, Switzerland Jun 13: Firenze Rocks, Italy Jun 14: Nickelsdorf Nova Rock, Austria Jun 16: Donington Download festival, UK Jun 19: Copenhagen Copenhell, Denmark Jun 21: Dortmund Wastfalenhallen, Germany Jun 22: Dessel Graspop Metal Meeting, Belgium Jun 24: Amsterdam Ziggo Dome, Netherlands Jun 26–29: Viveiro Resurrection Fest, Spain Jun 27: Clisson Hellfest, France Jun 30: Lisboa Evil Live festival, Portugal

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Following the announcement of two unique one-night-only arena shows in New York and Los Angeles, multi-platinum headliners and famed heavy metal rock group AVENGED SEVENFOLD have revealed the details of an extensive "Life Is But A Dream…" North American tour, featuring support from ALEXISONFIRE . Produced by Live Nation , the first leg includes 13 cities across the U.S. and Canada, such as Mansfield, Québec City, Tinley Park, Calgary, and more. Additional cities and dates will be announced soon.

The announcement of leg one is just one piece of recent exciting news for AVENGED SEVENFOLD as they also just released their first single in seven years, "Nobody" , and revealed their new album "Life Is But A Dream…" , set to arrive on June 2 via Warner .

Tickets will be available starting with a Deathbats Club presale beginning now through Tuesday, March 28 at 3 p.m. ET. Additional presales will run throughout the week. The general on sale will start Thursday, March 30 at 10 a.m. local time on LiveNation.com.

Deathbats Club members can request tickets first from now through Tuesday, March 28 at 3 p.m. ET using Ticketmaster 's new Token-Gated Sales platform at avengedsevenfold.io. Deathbats Club is a collection of 10,000 unique Deathbat NFTs, made popular by AVENGED SEVENFOLD , flying around the Ethereum blockchain. A Deathbat is a membership card into the club and offers many perks and access to events that will take place in the "metaverse" and in real life. During that window, fans will submit their request for tickets and, after the request period closes, they will receive a confirmation from Ticketmaster if tickets matching their preferences have been secured. This process gives exclusive access to ticket locations that have been reserved for the Deathbats Club community.

"Life Is But A Dream…" North American tour dates:

Jul. 18 - Camden, NJ - Freedom Mortgage Pavilion Jul. 19 - Mansfield, MA - Xfinity Center Jul. 21 - Québec City, QC - Videotron Centre Jul. 22 - Montreal, QC - Bell Centre Jul. 24 - Ottawa, ON - Canadian Tire Centre Jul. 26 - Clarkston, MI - Pine Knob Music Theatre Jul. 28 - Tinley Park, IL - Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre Jul. 29 - Minneapolis, MN - Target Center Jul. 31 - Winnipeg, MB - Canada Life Centre Aug. 02 - Saskatoon, SK - SaskTel Centre Aug. 04 - Edmonton, AB - Rogers Place Aug. 05 - Calgary, AB - Scotiabank Saddledome Aug. 07 - Vancouver, BC - Rogers Arena

"Nobody" , AVENGED SEVENFOLD 's first official music release since their 2016 album "The Stage" , delivers nearly six minutes of tension, groove, and dynamics. The song twists and turns beyond conventional songwriting and leans in on discomfort before letting go. The beautifully crafted stop-motion music video, which unfolds like a short film, is a stunning and powerful journey exploring the dichotomy between life and death, love and war, and follows the main character through an existential crisis. Stop motion is a handmade labor of love, often taking 90 minutes just to capture only two seconds of footage.

Prior to the track's release, the band launched an elaborate and mysterious digital scavenger hunt with puzzles, ciphers, images, and blog posts all written by Chat GPT, DALL-E 2, and AI voice modifiers. What was initiated as a cryptic hacker campaign on socials, eventually lead fans to a web site full of challenges to complete over the past two weeks that ultimately lead to the single being "unlocked" for release.

The sprawling sound of "Nobody" is reflective of "Life Is But A Dream..." . Written and recorded over the span of four years, "Life Is But a Dream..." was inspired by the writing and philosophy of Albert Camus . Accordingly, the lyrics are rooted in existentialism and absurdism. Always on the cutting edge of music and technology, AVENGED SEVENFOLD has partnered with Berify to include an NFC tag with bonus content on all CDs, vinyl, cassettes and official merchandise sold on A7XWorld.com. Additionally, the cover art and packaging are by renowned artist Wes Lang . Bold and multi-layered, the band's new album promises to be their most daring.

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. The band is equally known for their spectacular live shows, selling out arenas and headlining the world's most prestigious rock festivals.

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"We want to give people anxiety": how Avenged Sevenfold made 2023's strangest, most divisive heavy metal record with Life Is But A Dream...

Avenged Sevenfold shocked many fans with their eighth studio album. As the band themselves tell us, however, it was simply the record they had to make

Avenged Sevenfold on the cover of the new issue of Metal Hammer

M. Shadows and his wife, Valary, were having a night out at a local bar when the psychedelic mushrooms began to take hold. A new Avenged Sevenfold album was already in the works, but the singer wasn’t seeking chemically enhanced inspiration at that moment – until the feelings of love and happiness got intense. “Then we got home”, Shadows recalls, “and we just had this connection, being so sure that we had travelled through space and time to be together in every life that we meet up in – the ultimate love story.”

From that experience, Shadows wrote the lyrics to Cosmic , a sweeping ballad with influences from Elton John to Daft Punk and 808s -era Kanye West, and nothing to remind you of metal. It’s also the longest track on the mind-expanding new Avenged Sevenfold album, Life Is But A Dream... , with a romantic vocal that promises: ‘as we chase through the stars beyond forever / I’ll follow you’.

“Do I believe that’s the truth? Probably not. But on some sort of other level?Yes. Maybe”, Shadows says with a grin. “That’s not where my belief system lies, but I thought it was a really compelling song. And I did experience that and feel full-heartedly, 100% that that was the truth when I was living in it, you know? We felt like she was some queen and I was some guy that was in the Roman Army, and it was like a movie. It’s probably [because of] a million movies we’ve seen, and it all festered its way into our brains.”

Shadows looks perfectly relaxed as he describes the track, sitting inside the band’s warehouse headquarters in Huntington Beach, California, clad in a Black Flag T-shirt and black Avenged Sevenfold-brand mesh shorts, his hair cropped short on the sides, long on top. But he knows this is the quiet before the storm, that metal fans will be tested by Avenged Sevenfold’s eighth album.

The music is fuelled by wild experimentation and the occasional psychedelic, balancing heavy riffs with textures and ideas culled from other genres and dimensions. It is the band’s magnum opus, an album of mini-epics and pocket symphonies, absorbing sweeping moments of pop, prog, jazz, gypsy folk, hip hop, Daft Punk-style robotics, classical melody, the Phil Spector ‘Wall of Sound’, and even some crooning from the Sinatra school. Shadows is excited to watch the fallout.

“I want to make an impact. I want to make bold art”, he says of the album. “I think after people get used to it, it won’t be so crazy. And then it’ll be like, ‘Well, what’s next?’ That’s the journey we’re all on.”

That makes Life Is But A Dream... both a confrontation and an invitation, as the band seek to change the definition of what an Avenged Sevenfold song is supposed to sound like. Last December, Shadows tweeted his top five most-played artists on Apple Music, which might have been a clue to his state of mind: The Commodores, Weezer , Kanye West, Queens Of The Stone Age and Billy Joel. And yet, just the other day, he had Slayer’s Divine Intervention on repeat in the car for hours, happily feeding off its raw power.

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“I consider us a metal band. We’re definitely influenced by Slayer and Pantera and Metallica and some quirkier things”, he says. “We’re just trying to put our own twist on it.”

The first public glimpse of the new album was its debut single, the nearly-six-minute Nobody , which mixes ominous guitars with a trap beat and a full orchestra, male harmonies more R’n’B than metal and, shortly before an epic guitar solo, a mysterious declaration from Shadows: ‘I’m a God, I’m awake, I’m the one in everything / I’m alive, I’m the dead. I’m a man without a head.’ Initial reactions were mixed – surprised, angry, confused, ecstatic. Some fans embraced the sound immediately; others didn’t get it at all.

“They’re like, ‘That is fucking shit! These guys forgot how to write a song! Why would you put a solo at the end?’” says Shadows. “We were just laughing. That was more fun to us than someone saying, ‘Oh, this is great.’ We always gear towards a little bit of ruffling feathers.”

That song only hints at what the rest of Life Is But A Dream... offers. Working with Joe Barresi, who also produced 2016’s The Stage, guitarist Synyster Gates calls it “a full U-turn. It’s just like a blast off into outer space.”

Its schizophrenic soundscape amounts to the world’s loudest musical variety show of 2023. A key inspiration for Shadows was Disco Volante by Mr. Bungle, and the singer adapted some of Mike Patton’s vocal tricks and techniques – singing through a vocoder, a talkbox, a small Pignose amp, a Kaoss Pad effects device, various kids’ toys, and cranking up the autotune for full robotic effect. Also on his mind was the genre-shattering hyperpop of 100 Gecs, and his adolescent memories of earlier bands crossing their own stylistic boundaries, like Radiohead dropping all guitars on 2000’s Kid A , or Weezer getting raw and uncomfortably personal on 1996’s Pinkerton .

“Those records made me feel uncomfortable about myself at first, but I learned something about myself from discovering them”, says Shadows, putting Life Is But A Dream... in that same category. “I think this will do that to some people, because most of the people I’ve given it to have come back days later and gone, ‘This kind of fucked me up.’”

Work on Life Is But A Dream... began after Avenged Sevenfold cancelled the final leg of their 2018 tour, due to a viral infection that affected Shadows’ vocal cords. The band returned home to Huntington Beach and started writing new songs. Shadows and Synyster would sit together for hours, hashing out their ideas, usually at the latter’s house. The album took nearly five years to complete.

“It feels like an entire lifetime”, says Synyster, whose daughter, Monroe, was born in the interim. “We needed a break after two decades of doing stuff, but we needed to go to work because there was a creative itch.”

On the new songs, there are riffs as tough and heavy as anything from the band’s past, but the context is completely different. A frantic beat kicks off the crazed We Love You, shifting into the grinding guitar that accompanies Shadows as he chants a wish list of society’s insatiable appetites: ‘More power! More pace! More money! More taste! More sex! More pills! More skin!’ There are moments of stuttering electronics and Beatles melody, closing with guitarist Zacky Vengeance sounding like George Harrison on a 1920s acoustic and a bit of bottleneck to create a warm sound of gypsy jazz, as the band’s male chorus of tattooed dudes hums along.

“Me and Gates get [a lot of] joy out of playing crazy jazz chords that we’ve never, ever incorporated in Avenged Sevenfold,” says Zacky.

Getting the band there was a long, strange trip that included psychedelic experiences for two of them in the form of mind-altering venom from the rare Sonoran Desert toad, aka 5-MeO-DMT.

“When we went deep into the 5-MeO-DMT stuff, it was before Covid”, explains Shadows. “But you don’t just go into that, right? The Stage was already starting to deal with these existential things – like, ‘Gimme all the information of what we know about why we’re here.’”

The Stage , released in 2016, was a concept album about artificial intelligence that closed with a 15-minute meditation on the Big Bang, narrated by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

“I want to form my worldview based on facts and science, which a lot of times is very nihilistic, then reading philosophy or really great novels about this sort of thing”, says Shadows. “And then that record dove into the sort of AI element, which we’re dealing with now. And it dove into the Big Bang. [ Life Is But A Dream... ] dove into, ‘Now what do we do with all that information as a human that has emotions, that evolved to this spot where we have our upper brain [wired for reasoning] and lower brain [wired for primitive responses] and they’re battling each other?’”

For the 5-MeO-DMT experimentation, which he hoped would pause that battle, Shadows flew in a shaman, whose skills had previously been employed by engineers at SpaceX and Google. He went through three days of sessions, including one with Syn and another with Valary. “I don’t promote this”, he’s careful to say.“I don’t want to say that everyone needs that.”

For Shadows, the trips were eye-opening and difficult, resulting in a “pure existential crisis for a year” and loss of ego at one point, but eventually also a feeling of deep connection to the world.

“You come to terms with how important everyone thinks everything is, and how they work themselves up”, he says. “And none of it means anything. You work your fingers to the bones and everyone tells you you’re great your whole life. And then all of a sudden, you look back on your life and you go, ‘What the fuck was that?’ Ha ha ha! I think of The Rev , Jimmy [Sullivan, Avenged’s drummer who died in 2009], the way that time works – that dude went to bed one night, didn’t wake up, and if he was to wake up today, he would’ve never known that time had passed. At the end of your life, you’re gonna look back on everything the same way you feel now, with maybe a little more aching of a body.”

The big questions that followed were directed inward: “Did you enjoy yourself while you were here [on Earth]? Did you create suffering? Did you create more good than bad? There’s no answer, right? But it’s something I think about a lot, obviously”, explains Shadows. “The lyrics are straight from that perspective.”

Mattel , a song named after the toy company that produces the likes of Barbie and Hot Wheels, explores the plight of humanity living in an increasingly artificial world. Musically, the song is as varied and extreme as System Of A Down at full boil, ricocheting between divebombing guitars and the jazzy tinkling of piano, until Shadows croons: ‘Now I know this might sound crazy, but I’ve smelled the plastic daisies / And it seems we’ve found ourselves in Hell.’

The idea came to Shadows while strolling around his neighbourhood as he was microdosing for months at a time – sometimes with a bit more than a microdose.

“I took my dog on a walk, and all I see is plastic grass and I see plastic homes and people outside doing their plastic things. We’re so predictable”, Shadows recalls.“ And I’m like, 'Dude, this is fucking crazy. I’m one of those people, too!'”

Avenged’s 2005 hit, Bat Country , was famously inspired by a comically bad trip described in Hunter S. Thompson’s gonzo tale Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas , along with the singer’s days thrill-seeking on acid and mushrooms in his 20s. Shadows today craves enlightenment.

“It was the most significant experience of my life”, he says. “And that is on top of kids and on top of everything, because it helped me be better for them instead of being this clueless guy that’s OK with missing a basketball practice or OK blowing them off because I’m trying to do something.”

At 41, he’s a journeyman rocker with a history. The only tattoos he’s added of late tell an especially personal story: on opposite knees, Shadows has two new crypto punks that look like pixellated cartoons, one in dark shades to represent himself, the other blonde and female for his wife. Further down are permanent scribbles inked by his two young sons, who were handed a tattoo machine to scrawl versions of their names. His eldest, 10-year-old River, wrote above his dad’s ankle: ‘RS was here!’

“If I do psychedelics now, I’m a dad”, he explains.“I don’t do drugs. But I will do these medicines. I’m going to explore, and I want to go hard, and if something’s hard I will walk towards it. I want to learn from what’s happening.”

It’s been 14 years since the death of The Rev, with whom Avenged had grown up before together realising their heavy metal dreams. If he was still around, Shadows is certain he would have been onboard with Life Is But A Dream... “He’d be stoked. Me and Brian [Haner, aka Synyster] know that guy better than anyone”, says Shadows. “He was always the biggest proponent of instigation and trying new things.”

In fact, their late drummer and songwriter is on the new album in more than spirit. The bridge on Mattel includes a melody The Rev had created but never found a place for, and on Beautiful Morning is a lyric he and Syn had from their previous band, Pinkly Smooth.

“That’s something him and Brian came up with a long time ago: ‘It’s a beautiful morning, it’s a beautiful day, everybody is smiling, in a beautiful way’,” explains Shadows. “That’s when it gets creepy.”

But perhaps the most ambitious part of Life Is But A Dream... is the trilogy ‘GOD’: G , (O)rdinary , and (D)eath – partly inspired by elaborate hip hop hit Sicko Mode by Travis Scott ft. Drake. The prog-rock/funk G features Shadows as the voice of the Almighty, after creating the universe in six days, muttering: ‘On the seventh day I thought about world peace but I decided just to take it off.’

(O)rdinary then leans fully into the sound of Daft Punk’s 2013 album, Random Access Memories , firing up the funky guitar with robotic vocals and a dance beat. (D)eath – originally a love song Syn wrote for his wife called Alone Tonight – then rises from the mists of a shimmering orchestra, and Shadows croons like Sinatra as the guitars threaten to bring in the storm clouds again. “The reason it says ‘GOD’ is because we thought it was funny that God is like the original G”, saysShadows.

The frontman attended Catholic school until he was in sixth grade, and went to church every Wednesday with school and every Sunday with his parents. As time went on, he realised they didn’t believe in it, and only went out of tradition. Meanwhile, Shadows was more drawn to science, and came to the conclusion that there probably wasn’t a God, at least in the Christian sense. As he’s got older, though, he’s come to understand that faith can be a comfort blanket.

“I used to argue with every person I could about it, and now I’m actually happy for them if they believe”, he says.“And after I did my 5-MeO trip, I came back to my friend Jeremiah, who’s hardcore religious, and I realised that he was right all along. His belief system of God is right because he’s going to live and die, and will never even know any different.”

But he’s also seen what happens when that belief is tested at the end. A couple of months ago, his devout grandmother passed away, and felt like she had been abandoned.

“She had a very long, painful death”, he says.“My dad told me that she was crying, asking where God was on her deathbed. There’s a stark reality that if you live long enough, it’s going to smack you in the face.”

His other grandma had passed away five months before that. She was never religious, and was scared to die.

“I tried to get her in at Johns Hopkins [university] to do some end-of-life psilocybin testing, which has shown incredible results”, he explains.“People that come out, they’re not afraid of dying anymore; they understand they’re one with the universe, and they see it as a portal to move on. It’s hard to get people into those. And she died extremely afraid of death and the unknown. That was sad to see, too.”

Having stayed in Orange County (drummer Brooks Wackerman is nearby in Long Beach), Avenged Sevenfold are close with their families, and with each other. After Synyster married Valary’s twin sister, Michelle, in 2010, the guitarist and Shadows became brothers-in-law.

Closing the album is the title track, an instrumental piece of music that Synyster wrote 10 years ago to celebrate the birth of Shadows’ first son, River. He originally wrote and recorded it digitally on a MIDI, a version that Shadows still loves. When Joe Barresi suggested Syn play it on piano, it seemed like a joke; the accomplished guitarist didn’t have that level of confidence. So, he spent months practising on his baby Steinway piano.

The song took four days to record, fuelled by coffee, while Syn’s wife and kids were away on a trip. It was the last thing he completed for the album. The result is an understated carnival of piano melody and compound chords, played like a master. Aside from his family, he considers the performance “my greatest accomplishment personally”. Avenged know they will be criticised for Life Is But A Dream... (“I realise that when I look at any comment section, they’re gonna say, ‘The band died with The Rev’,” says Shadows at one point), but they don’t care. Not only did The Stage lay the groundwork for musical experimentation and raise existential questions, by confronting them further, Shadows’ perspective and the band’s sound have changed dramatically. They also have big plans for their live shows.

“This time around, it’s like we want the guitar to be used to create textures, to give people anxiety”, says Zacky. “We want these parts to sound like a chainsaw going through your mind.” Meanwhile, Shadows promises “a wrestling/art show meets spiritual/psychedelic experience”.

During the process of recording, the band occasionally lost perspective on what they were doing. Near the end, Shadows asked Syn, ‘Did we go far enough?’, and the guitarist assured him that they had. So, he put on headphones, and listened to the three ‘GOD’ songs and the piano title track placed together for the first time.

“My heart started racing and I felt really weird”, recalls Shadows. “I called Brian, and I’m like, ‘We went far enough.’ I was so happy. But I was also scared: what are people going to think when they get to the end of this thing?’ But that’s exactly what I want.” Originally published in Metal Hammer #375

Steve Appleford is a Los Angeles music journalist who has also written for Rolling Stone, Revolver and the Los Angeles Times. Over the years he's interviewed major artists across multiple genres - including Black Sabbath, Slayer, Queens of the Stone Age, System of a Down, KISS, Lemmy, the Who, Neil Young, Beastie Boys, Beyonce, Tom Jones, and a couple of Beatles.

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Avenged Sevenfold announce second leg of 2023 North American tour

Avenged Sevenfold are expanding their touring plans in North America this year, announcing an autumn run in support of new album Life Is But A Dream.

A couple of weeks on from announcing their first Life Is But A Dream tour with Alexisonfire, Avenged Sevenfold have announced a second North American leg this year.

The Huntington Beach metal kings will be taking their long-awaited new album out on the road throughout North America in the autumn with Falling In Reverse, kicking off in Florida on September 16 and wrapping up in Texas just under a month later.

And as well as their Deathbats Club platform, A7X will be using their new TicketPass system in which they plan to reward fans in the long run.

“TicketPass will by no means cost anyone any money, you won't have to get involved in cryptocurrency, you won’t have to do any of these things that people feel uncomfortable with, and the token that we’re going to be using is on the Polygon network — an environmentally-friendly blockchain,” explains frontman M. Shadows. “We want to roll something out to the rest of our fanbase without them having to opt into a full fan club experience that is strictly for tickets and ensuring our fans get the best tickets they desire first.

“At the end of the day, we want to know your feedback on if this worked well for you, and we will take notes and mold this for you. Look at this as a frequent flier miles type of program – with Avenged Sevenfold, we will be breaking these passes into ‘tiers’ over time and rewarding the people who have been participating the most in our A7X ecosystem (with merchandise, listening habits, music consumption, live events, and other metrics).”

Here are their new tour dates:

16 West Palm Beach, FL – iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre 17 Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre 19 Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavilion 20 Alpharetta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre 22 Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena 25 Maryland Heights, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre 26 Kansas City, MO – T-Mobile Center 28 Denver, CO – Ball Arena 30 Salt Lake City, UT – USANA Amphitheatre

2 Tacoma, WA – Tacoma Dome 3 Portland, OR – MODA Center 7 Chula Vista, CA – North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre 8 Phoenix, AZ – Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre 10 Albuquerque, NM – Isleta Amphitheater 12 The Woodlands, TX – The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion 13 Austin, TX – Germania Insurance Amphitheater 15 Fort Worth, TX – Dickies Arena

Life Is But A Dream is due out on June 2 via Warner Records.

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Avenged Sevenfold Announce Second Leg of 2023 North American Tour With Falling In Reverse

Avenged Sevenfold have just announced a second North American leg of their Life Is But a Dream... tour with special guest Falling In Reverse , with an additional support act yet to be announced.

In late March, A7X unveiled the first leg of dates stretching from July 18 through Aug. 7, which will mark their first proper tour since 2018. Now, they've added an additional 17 stops from Sept. 16 through Oct. 15, all of which can be seen further down the page.

Tickets will be available to everyone starting April 14 at 10AM local time through Live Nation. Meanwhile, pre-sale tickets will be accessible for Deathbats Club members and TicketPass holders can request tickets first from now through April 12 at 3PM ET using Ticketmaster's new Token-Gated Sales platform at this location .

READ MORE: Avenged Sevenfold Launch Blockchain-Based Ticketing Rewards System

Talking about Avenged Sevenfold's new ticketing system, frontman M. Shadows explains, "TicketPass will by no means cost anyone any money, you won't have to get involved in cryptocurrency, you won't have to do any of these things that people feel uncomfortable with, and the token that we're going to be using is on the Polygon network — an environmentally-friendly blockchain. We want to roll something out to the rest of our fan base without them having to opt into a full fan club experience that is strictly for tickets and ensuring our fans get the best tickets they desire first,"

"At the end of the day, we want to know your feedback on if this worked well for you, and we will take notes and mold this for you," he continues, "Look at this as a frequent flier miles type of program – with Avenged Sevenfold, we will be breaking these passes into "tiers" over time and rewarding the people who have been participating the most in our A7X ecosystem (with merchandise, listening habits, music consumption, live events, and other metrics.)."

For a step-by-step breakdown of TicketPass, head here .

Avenged Sevenfold's new album, Life Is But a Dream... , will be released on June 2 and you can hear the first single, "Nobody," here .

Avenged Sevenfold + Falling In Reverse — Second North American Tour Leg

Sept. 16 – West Palm Beach, Fla. @ iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre Sept. 17 – Tampa, Fla. @ MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre Sept. 19 – Charlotte, N.C. @ PNC Music Pavilion Sept. 20 – Alpharetta, Ga. @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre Sept. 22 – Nashville, Tenn. @ Bridgestone Arena Sept. 25 –St. Louis, Mo. @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre Sept. 26 – Kansas City, Mo. @ T-Mobile Center * Sept. 28 – Denver, Colo. @ Ball Arena^ Sept. 30 – Salt Lake City, Utah @ USANA Amphitheatre Oct. 02 – Tacoma, Wash. @ Tacoma Dome Oct. 03 – Portland, Ore. @ MODA Center Oct. 07 – Chula Vista, Calif. @ North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre Oct. 08 – Phoenix, Ariz. @ Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre Oct. 10 – Albuquerque, N.M. @ Isleta Amphitheater Oct. 12 – The Woodlands, Texas @ The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion Oct. 13 – Austin, Texas @ Germania Insurance Amphitheater Oct. 15 – Fort Worth, Texas @ Dickies Arena

*Not a Live Nation Date ^Without Falling in Reverse

Previously Announced Avenged Sevenfold 2023 Tour Dates

July 18 – Camden, N.J. @ Freedom Mortgage Pavilion July 19 – Mansfield, Mass. @ Xfinity Center July 21 – Québec City, Quebec @ Videotron Centre July 22 – Montreal, Quebec @ Bell Centre July 24 – Ottawa, Ontario @ Canadian Tire Centre July 26 – Clarkston, Mich. @ Pine Knob Music Theatre July 28 – Tinley Park, Ill. @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre July 29 – Minneapolis, Minn. @ Target Center July 31 – Winnipeg, Manitoba @ Canada Life Centre Aug. 02 – Saskatoon, Saskatchewan @ SaskTel Centre Aug. 04 – Edmonton, Alberta @ Rogers Place Aug. 05 – Calgary, Alberta @ Scotiabank Saddledome Aug. 07 – Vancouver, British Columbia @ Rogers Arena

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Alexisonfire will provide support on the July-August run

Avenged Sevenfold have announced a Summer 2023 North American tour with support from Alexisonfire .

Billed as the first leg of the Avenged Sevenfold’s “ Life Is But a Dream… Tour,” the 13-city trek kicks off July 18th in Camden, New Jersey, and runs through August 7th in Vancouver.

Update: Avenged Sevenfold have announced a second leg of North American dates taking place in September and October.

Tickets are available via StubHub — where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program. Stubhub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

Avenged Sevenfold will be out in support of their upcoming album, Life Is But a Dream… , arriving June 2nd. The summer run follows previously announced June concerts in Los Angeles and New York City, as well as May appearances at the Welcome to Rockville and Sonic Temple festivals.

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Below you can see the full list of Avenged Sevenfold’s 2023 North American tour dates. Get tickets here .

Avenged Sevenfold 2023 North American Tour Dates: 05/19 – Daytona Beach, FL @ Welcome to Rockville 05/26 – Columbus, OH @ Sonic Temple 06/09 – Los Angeles, CA @ Kia Forum ^ 06/23 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden ^ 07/18 – Camden, NJ @ Freedom Mortgage Pavilion * 07/19 – Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center * 07/21 – Québec City, QC @ Videotron Centre * 07/22 – Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre * 07/24 – Ottawa, ON @ Canadian Tire Centre * 07/26 – Clarkston, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre * 07/28 – Tinley Park, IL @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre * 07/29 – Minneapolis, MN – Target Center * 07/31 – Winnipeg, MB @ Canada Life Centre * 08/02 – Saskatoon, SK @ SaskTel Centre * 08/04 – Edmonton, AB @ Rogers Place * 08/05 – Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome * 08/07 – Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena * 10/05 – Sacramento, CA @ Aftershock

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Avenged Sevenfold Announce North American 2023 Tour Dates

Avenged Sevenfold Share North American 2023 Tour Dates

Avenged Sevenfold shares the 2023 tour dates first time in five years. We are thrilled to announce that Avenged Sevenfold will be embarking on their first North American tour in support of their critically acclaimed album , “Life Is But a Dream.” This long-awaited tour will be a must-see event for fans of the band, who have been awaiting their return to North America.

Avenged Sevenfold is renowned for their live performances and more. Fans can expect to hear a mix of classic hits and new material from “Life Is But a Dream,” all performed with the band’s signature blend of heavy metal and hard rock.

The band has also promised an incredible stage production, complete with stunning lighting effects, that will enhance the overall experience.

A7X band’s tour will kick off on July 18 in Camden, NJ, and will continue through August, with dates in major cities like Minneapolis, Montreal, and Vancouver. The band will be supported by a various lineup of opening acts, including Falling in Reverse, and Alexisonfire.

Avenged Sevenfold is known for their powerful live performances, and this tour is sure to be no exception. Fans can expect to hear their signature blend of heavy metal and hard rock, as well as some new material from “Life Is But a Dream.” The band has promised an unforgettable experience for all who attend, with a focus on their incredible stage production and lighting.

This tour is a testament to the continuing popularity of Avenged Sevenfold and their dedicated fanbase. After five long years, fans can finally see the band live once again and experience their electrifying performance style.

Avenged Sevenfold has been a mainstay in the rock scene for over two decades. Formed in 1999, the band has released seven studio albums and has become one of the most successful rock acts of the 21st century.

Their music is known for its heavy riffs, soaring melodies, and powerful vocals, and their live shows are renowned for their high-energy performances and pyrotechnics.

In a recent Instagram post, Avenged Sevenfold’s Brooks Wackerman expressed their excitement about the latest album:

“Well, this happened on Tuesday. We, Avenged Sevenfold, started writing this record four years ago, and I can’t believe we are 90% done. One of the perks in the creative process is that we are able to track a 78-piece orchestra on our records.

The fact that we are able to bring incredible musicians together to enhance our art still gives me chills. I can’t wait for the world to hear this. All I can say is it’s unlike anything we’ve ever released.”

Avenged Sevenfold 2023 North American tour dates:

Jul 18 – Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
Jul 19 – Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center
Jul 21 – Québec City, QC – Videotron Centre
Jul 22 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre
Jul 24 – Ottawa, ON – Canadian Tire Centre
Jul 26 – Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre
Jul 28 – Tinley Park, IL – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
Jul 29 – Minneapolis, MN – Target Center
Jul 31 – Winnipeg, MB – Canada Life Centre
Aug 02 – Saskatoon, SK – SaskTel Centre
Aug 04 – Edmonton, AB – Rogers Place
Aug 05 – Calgary, AB – Scotiabank Saddledome
Aug 07 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena

For buying A7X concert tickets for this tour go on sale to the general public on Thursday, March 30th at 10 a.m. local time. You can listen to the A7X ‘s ‘ Nobody ‘ song below!

I'm Yunus Emre Ozdiyar and I'm the founder of metalshout.com I've enjoyed writing listicles, guides, news and doing interviews about heavy metal and rock music ever since 2005 and I'm an official journalist since 2015.

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When is Avenged Sevenfold gonna come to New Orleans Louisiana and eat some real good food and enjoy the Scenery and rock the s*** out of the city we’re waiting for something like this for a long time