Avenged Sevenfoldin uuden rumpalin henkilöllisyys julki

Yhdysvaltalainen metalliyhtye Avenged Sevenfold on valinnut uudeksi rumpaliksi ennen Bad Religionissa rumpuja soittaneen Brooks Wackermanin. Yhtyeen vokalisti M. Shadows on kommentoinut yhtyeen uutta rumpalia seuraavasti:

”To be honest, Brooks’s name has always been in the mix. It was one of the names we were throwing around when Jimmy [original AVENGED SEVENFOLD drummer James ’The Rev’ Sullivan] passed away in terms of who was going to step up for [the 2010 album] ’Nightmare’. We felt Mike [Portnoy, ex-DREAM THEATER] was the right choice and we still feel that way. Mike just destroyed on the record. He was perfect. But at the time, our tour manager brought up Brooks’s name as well. But at the time he was also busy with BAD RELIGION and it was also… People were going to look at it differently because he was a punk drummer at this point.”

”It just became increasingly difficult to be on the same page, not only touring, but with writing and just where we want to take things. We’re just a bunch of guys who are all over the place and we have a bunch of different influences and we need somebody who can instantly… who can sit there and say, ’Yeah, I’ve got that influence too or I understand why we’re gonna go here. I understand why we’re going to do that.'”

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”It just got to the point where after Mayhem Festival last year, we had just decided to fire on all cylinders the way we want to, we needed to make a change. And we all had our little talk. We said, ’Listen, we can ride this thing out the way it is right now and we’ll be fine or we can shake the nest a little bit and we want to fire on all cylinders again. We want to be the baddest band on the planet. We want to just dominate onstage.’ And I came up with the idea that I really want to talk to Brooks and see if there’s any chance and see where he’s at in his life right now.”

”Jimmy’s missing and you’re not trying to replace that and you’re just trying to get to the point where if you were to tear this thing to the bottom floor, how would you rebuild it — to just say new band, new mentality, new fire. And one of the things was, ’Let’s give Brooks a call and see what he’s doing.’ It wasn’t like we were going to start trying guys out and we were serious about this change. It was, like, ’If Brooks is willing to do this, that’s what we want to do.’ So it wasn’t like we were gonna just start looking for drummers.”

Wackerman on puolestaan itse kommentoinut pestiään Chris Jerichon (Fozzy) tekemässä tuoreessa haastattelussa seuraavasti:

”I’ve been a fan of the band for a decade and when Matt [M. Shadows] gave me the call last year, I was absolutely thrilled.

”This past year I have been reassessing what I want to do. With a band like BAD RELIGION, I’m so proud of all the work we’ve done together. But I was yearning for something new, a different style and during that time is when I got the call.”

Avenged Sevenfold on parhaillaan studiossa työstämässä uutta albumiaan. Albumi tullaan julkaisemaan vuoden 2016 aikana.