Avenged Sevenfold Frontman Confirms Influencing By Kanye West for Upcoming Album

Best known for its diverse rock sounds that they used on their albums, it turns out Avenged Sevenfold has chosen a whole different inspiration, Kanye West, for the upcoming album this time.
While the regarded band is also known to be influenced by the famous names of rock and roll and heavy metal community, such as Metallica, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Slayer, Guns N’ Roses, The Beatles, Black Sabbath, and many more of them, it seems they have wanted to try something different, after all. As many of us know that Avenged Sevenfold has been working on its upcoming album, which is now super close than ever, the regarded metal band’s frontman, M. Shadows has recently appeared in an interview, revealing fresh new details about their waited albums, as it also turns out the regarded band influenced by the popular musician, Kanye West, while working on their album.
During his appearance, Avenged Sevenfold frontman M. Shadows talked about their upcoming, revealing the recordings are almost done seemingly next month. He also revealed their upcoming album’s influencer while also explained;
“In January, we’re going in to finish the strings on the record. The record’s been recorded for a year, but we haven’t been able to put the real strings on it because we couldn’t fly out to Prague. When an orchestra has to social distance and they aren’t sitting next to each other, they can get out of tune, and we have just finally got to a place where we can use this 70-piece orchestra as we intended. We finish the record in February, mix it in March,” said M. Shadows and jumped onto explaining his influencer, who actually belongs to a whole different genre, Kanye West.
“There are so many influences… We’re very influenced by Kanye West. The thing about Kanye is that he is pulling from such great soul music. I didn’t grow up with that stuff — my dad listened to Boston and Alice Cooper and I didn’t get that taste of black music and old soul. So, diving deep into jazz musicians… We’re not trying to do a jazz record, but the chord changes and progressions are so eye-opening to us.”
On the other side, also the talented guitarist of Avenged Sevenfold talked about the upcoming album’s occurring sessions back in February 2021. Avenged Sevenfold guitarist Zacky Vengeance started explaining at the time saying the band had gone through “lots and lots of writing — at a lot slower pacer than usual” and continued:
“Now that we are a little bit older, we move around a little bit slower, but we’ve done tons of writing. We’ve gone to the studio. It was kind of a weird time to do anything in 2020, but that’s when we felt like it was a good time to go out there and start tracking all the stuff that we had in us.
But, as I said, we’re doing it at a slow pace, so we’re still in the process of recording. We’re taking it really, really slow, making sure everything is the way we like it. We’re not in a big rush to get anything out, mainly ’cause we wanna get on the road, and we wanna be able to bring it to life. We wanna tour, we wanna travel, we wanna play songs that people wanna hear; we wanna expose them to some new stuff. ‘Cause I just feel like rushing to put something out right now and letting it dissipate because of the void, while people are worried about where their next meal is coming from or the paycheck, the last thing in the world on people’s minds is, ‘Avenged Sevenfold‘s gonna put out a new album, and that’s gonna be the saving grace for us all.’ And I feel like we’ll take it slow, let the world get a little bit back to normal, and when people are ready, we’ll know — we have a good sense of that. We’ll slowly finish it up, and then unleash it when the world’s ready.”
And finally, as the time flies, that time is finally coming as the world gets more normal day by day even if with baby steps. But the fans finally will be getting to reunite their regarded band, while Avenged Sevenfold is almost finishing the last touches on their album, thinking the world is also ready like their album after all, apparently.
So, please stay tuned for updates and more news to come about the upcoming album of Avenged Sevenfold and more. And before we finish, you may also want to check out what the regarded band also talked about their upcoming album in the past, here.