It’s a trip now that other bands are saying that they look up to us. In my mind, I’m still 18 years old trying to emulate Pantera in my bedroom. Johnny Christ Read Quote
It wasn’t until high school that I realized Avenged Sevenfold was picking up locally. Johnny Christ Read Quote
We have the greatest fans in the world, and our growth has been so organic. It’s online; it’s out at the shows. It’s a big family, and they know we’re going to do our best, and we know they’re going to give it their best. Johnny Christ Read Quote
It’s not as much about the numbers as much as it is that our fans made a mark on this world for us. Johnny Christ Read Quote
Not a lot of hard rock bands are just letting it all be – they’re adding a lot of samples on things, or effects or whatever – and we just wanted the drums to be raw so you could really hear what Brooks Wackerman is capable of. Johnny Christ Read Quote
We always mess around with riffs and stuff and kind of jam out during sound checks, but we never actually started playing covers live until we started goofing off a little bit more on stage. Johnny Christ Read Quote
Kerrang asked us to do a heavy metal tribute to one of our favorite heavy metal bands. We had already been jamming out on ‘Walk,’ so we’re like, ‘OK. We’ll record it for you guys.’ Johnny Christ Read Quote
We were about ready to go out on the road with Maiden, and Kerrang asked us to do an Iron Maiden tribute song. While we were home, we recorded that. And that was it. Johnny Christ Read Quote
There was a time when we were in a van and handing out the CDs at Warped Tour. We had a two-song EP that we were just handing out for free just to promote ourselves. That was on the ‘Waking the Fallen’ record, and we were just going around and handing out the CDs and stuff like that. Johnny Christ Read Quote
