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For første gang blir Annual Guitar Hero Music Awards holdt og Avenged Sevenfold er nominert i to kategorier! Man kan stemme ved å klikke HER og man trenger heller ikke å lage en bruker konto. Det er bare å stemme i vei og la oss håpe at favoritt bandet våres vinner i både Best Scream og Song of the year!

Vinnerne vil bli klargjort 1. juli 2009 og slik jeg forstår det kan man stemme en gang.

M. Shadows er å høre på Steel Panther sitt nye album. Rockerne i Steel Panther er gode venner av bandet og man kan altså høre M. Shadows på en av deres nye sanger. For å høre Turn Out The Lights via YouTube klikk HER.

Det er tid for Kerrang! Awards igjen og man kan nominere Avenged Sevenfold til en rekke priser. Om man lager en account HER så kan man altså nominere bandet og ikke minst stemme! La oss stemme og gjøre slik at Avenged Sevenfold vinner noen priser, vi vet at de fortjener det!

Kategoriene man kan nominere/ stemme er som følger:

Best British Newcomer (presented by Relentless Energy Drink)
Best International Newcomer (presented by Criminal Damage)
Best Live Band
Best Single
Best Video
Best Album (presented by My Rock City)
Best British Band (presented by Roadrunner Records)
Best International Band

Det er også en konkurranse hvor man kan vinne VIP billetter til seremonien som blir holdt i London dersom man er 18+. Man må selv betale for reise og opphold men det å få VIP billetter er stort nok i seg selv.

Stem i vei folkens!

Det har ikke vært noen oppdateringer på måneder og det beklager jeg virkelig. Det har vært en rimelig tørr periode rundt bandet selv om de har turnert USA. For de som ikke vet det så blir det altså ingen turné i Europa i år selv om bandet har noen konserter i England i august. Økonomikrisen har store deler av skylden for dette så det er ikke bandet som hater oss her i Europa (det har vært omdiskutert siden det ble lovet en turné da de kom i fjor).

For de som er heldig nok til å se dem i sommer i Dublin eller Hertfordshire ønsker jeg det beste! Ta masse bilder og ha det gøy for alle oss som uheldigvis ikke kommer oss dit

Som de fleste vet så lovet bandet oss alle en ny konsert runde i 2009. Det viser seg nå at det ikke blir noen turne før de har gitt ut en ny plate. M Shadows svarte på en runde spørsmål fra fansen (via Chapter- Four sitt message board) og her er noen utdrag av det som ble sagt:

4. Are you going to tour Europe in 2009 before writing a new album?

Matt: No, there is a long explanation to this that I will answer below in another question.

6. When are you coming back to the uk??

Matt: After a new record is recorded.

7. Why does the band insist on repeatedly making promises to fans in the United Kingdom and Europe which it has no intention of keeping? Does it not feel that it should honour its promises or is it acceptable to betray fans time and again?

Matt: Betray fans is a little harsh. Just like everything in life things happen sometimes out of our control. As for this situation I wanna give you all a little information. Now this is in no way making excuses for other tours we may have cancelled which you may or may not be holding onto some sort of resentment. This is for the future touring in 09 which we said we would do.
We did the Maiden tour, which was a HUGE success for us, expecting to be able to come back in Feb. and replay all the markets we had hit with them as a headliner. Once we started booking dates our agent came to us and told us promoters didn’t want Avenged in the market place unless we were willing to do 300 – 700 capacity clubs throughout Europe. They felt the economy was so bad and they were losing money on so many other shows that they weren’t willing to take a chance on a band that they didn’t know about.

Last time I checked in Scandinavia, Spain and other parts of Europe, we had an amazing crowd response. So they went to the label in those markets and since our record is a year old they also had no interest in helping out the promoters and advertising the dates. We had already spent well over a quarter million dollars to do the Maiden tour with travel and crew expenses that came straight out of our pockets and we promised ourselves as a band we would never spend money out of our own pocket to tour any market again.

If you think about it, Avenged can go anywhere from south America, to Canada, to the states, to the UK and to Southeast Asia and Japan and play to thousands and thousands of kids every night, so to go play to 300 kids and go further in debt just makes no sense. So we fired our agent and went to the promoter directly and the answer was still the same. So hence, no more European tour. I know in my heart of hearts that Spain, Scandinavia, and Portugal would all be insane huge shows. But until people wanna book the shows, they just wont happen.

Also, the reason we aren’t coming back to the UK is that we had a falling out with the label there. They didn’t work any of our singles properly, they leaked music videos to the states and fucked up release dates for us. They basically blew their load on a bunch of shit and now nothing has happened since the last time we were there, so the band and myself feel it’s best to do a new record and then make it one of the first spots we hit. Most of the people at the label have been replaced since all this went down, so hopefully things will go more smoothly in the future. I know this may not make sense to some of you but the reality is this is how it all works, no label support, no promoter, no shows. It will get worked out and people in Europe will catch on but it’s just taking longer then virtually every other market in the world.

For mer klikk HER!

Ryktene sier at om en ukes tid så publiseres konsert datoene for Europa. Personlig så kan jeg bare si at jeg krysser fingrene for at det stemmer!

Gratulerer så mye med 27 års dagen Zacky V!

Gratulerer så mye til Matt og Valary!

Avenged Sevenfold er nominert til nok en pris, Headbangers best of 2008! Klikk her for å stemme! Man kan stemme så mange ganger man måtte ønske så da er det bare å stemme i vei og håpe på at de går av med seieren.