When we were recording, sometimes I wondered if what we were doing would even be possible to play live. Zacky Vengeance Read Quote
We have been harnessing every aspect of what makes Avenged truly unrelenting and building off of that. Zacky Vengeance Read Quote
Everyone loves to complain that there are no real bands on MTV, yet no one wants to step up to the plate and try to change that. Zacky Vengeance Read Quote
I’d like to think that we will have had something to do with a shift back to heavy rock. That’s what we’ve wanted all along, and we knew there’d be fearless steps to take to achieve that. Zacky Vengeance Read Quote
We didn’t say, ‘Hey, we’re gonna pick a bunch of cover songs,’ or, ‘We’re gonna write an original song that has to sound like this, because we’re a metal band, so we’re gonna cover some metal songs.’ We did the opposite. We just said, ‘We’re gonna have fun with these songs, and we’re gonna try different things.’ Zacky Vengeance Read Quote
Basically, we’re just a bunch of kids who got together and try to use what we have and try to learn from each other. Zacky Vengeance Read Quote
We wanted to write songs that we really like that incorporate everything. It seems a lot of bands want to stick with one thing. We didn’t want to be scared to do anything that we wanted to do. We didn’t want anything to hold us back. We wanted no boundaries. Zacky Vengeance Read Quote
We wanted to incorporate lights and the like to really accentuate the music. We play mostly small venues, so we don’t use it overboard by any means. The most important thing is the music. I think we do a good job of letting that show. Zacky Vengeance Read Quote
There’s always going to be haters, but those people are few. We’re not too worried about it. Zacky Vengeance Read Quote
There’s people that have never heard our album. The most they’ve seen is either our video on ‘TRL’ or our picture on the cover of magazines. Zacky Vengeance Read Quote
