DUNLOP ARTISTS AVENGED SEVENFOLD RIDING HIGH OFF THEIR NEW ALBUM "NIGHTMARE"

DUNLOP ARTISTS AVENGED SEVENFOLD RIDING HIGH OFF THEIR NEW ALBUM "NIGHTMARE"

July 29, 2010

Longtime Dunlop Band Avenged Sevenfold is riding high on the success of “Nightmare”, the bands fifth studio album.
The album draws on everything from the earliest influences and inspirations that bonded the musicians in their youth to the vast spectrum of tastes these friends have developed over the years, reaching far outside the rock and punk universes one might expect.
“We wouldn’t be Avenged Sevenfold if we didn’t experiment with every kind of music in our brains,” says Gates. “Coming from a background where we listened to so much music and having musicians who understand and can get inside the heads of people playing on those records and producing, this band has a talent for that. When we do go into other genres, it comes off naturally. We lived it and breathed it. Songs like ‘Fiction’ – that’s a complete departure. To me that’s Jimmy and little bit of me from when we were kids, that’s how I knew him. Songs like ‘Tonight The World Dies,’ slower, but not a ballad. We grew up listening to Stone Temple Pilots and Alice In Chains, stuff like that. Then you have ‘Save Me,’ the quintessential Avenged Sevenfold song. Undoubtedly to me a future fan favorite.”
In August, AVENGED SEVENFOLD will co-headline the first annual Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival with DISTURBED. Also on the bill are STONE SOUR, HALESTORM, and HELLYEAH. The Uproar tour, which will hit amphitheatres and arenas, marks the band’s first tour since the passing of beloved friend and drummer Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan. Mike Portnoy from DREAM THEATER plays drums on “Nightmare” and will also tour with the band for Uproar.