(en) « M Shadows Wants The New Avenged Sevenfold Album To Be A Metal/Rock Classic » [archive du ], Metal Hammer, (consulté le ), The new album has a lot more of a Sabbath and Zeppelin feel to it, ” he states. “There’s definitely more Sabbath in what we’re writing, and we’re proud of Carry On, but this album is going to be on a whole new level. We’re shooting for late January, early February [to enter the studio] and to have the album out in the summer. I’m pretty sure that we’re looking to go overseas first, so you guys will be seeing it before everyone else… We’re going back to Sabbath stuff. We’re looking at blues chords they’re playing most of their stuff in. We’re listening to Zeppelin. We’re going backwards with what we want this record to feel like. I wanna write a classic metal record, a classic rock record in 2013.
(en) « Avenged Sevenfold Bio », Monsters and Critics (consulté le ) : « They released two demos in the years 1999 and 2000, entitled 1999 Demo and 2000 Demo ».
(en) « Warped Tour outlasted by putting teenagers' interests first », sur The Orange County Register, (version du sur Internet Archive), p. We were lumped into metalcore, but with this record we really wanted to get out of it… We didn't even know why we were screaming. One day, we were just like, '(Bleep) this, there's no way we're gonna scream on the next record..
(en) « M Shadows Wants The New Avenged Sevenfold Album To Be A Metal/Rock Classic » [archive du ], Metal Hammer, (consulté le ), The new album has a lot more of a Sabbath and Zeppelin feel to it, ” he states. “There’s definitely more Sabbath in what we’re writing, and we’re proud of Carry On, but this album is going to be on a whole new level. We’re shooting for late January, early February [to enter the studio] and to have the album out in the summer. I’m pretty sure that we’re looking to go overseas first, so you guys will be seeing it before everyone else… We’re going back to Sabbath stuff. We’re looking at blues chords they’re playing most of their stuff in. We’re listening to Zeppelin. We’re going backwards with what we want this record to feel like. I wanna write a classic metal record, a classic rock record in 2013.