Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 at 10:30am by Axl Rosenberg
The Starbucks Incident
Yes, I am going to continue to bitch about Slash. I understand that Slash is not Jimi Hendrix but this might be the single biggest betrayal to my formative years since Metallica released everything they’ve released from Load on, and I need to mourn.
So. Some lady says that the following singers are all on Slash’s new solo album, How Could Taking My Cues from Carlos Santana Possibly Go Wrong? I have added my own thoughts because that’s what we do around here. Click to read more…
Friday, April 17th, 2009 at 1:00pm by Axl Rosenberg
If you go here you can watch a video of Avenged Sevenfold’s M. Shadows being interviewed about the whole nu-GN’R/Velvet Revolver rivalry. I can’t embed it because the people at Artisan News Service, who conducted the interview, are no good smelly fuck faces, but here’s a transcription of the relevant part:
“I go more towards the Use Your Illusion records, and I know that [Axl Rose] had a major part in those. You listen to the Velvet Revolver records and you can tell that it’s more of a straight-ahead rock band. And a lot of people like that… and it’s not a diss on them, but they have a short attention span… From the new stuff I’ve heard and the demos, I can tell that Axl had the biggest part in [the Illusion albums]… the lyrics… the vocal stylings… that to me was the major part of Guns N’ Roses. Even though you can’t have Guns N’ Roses without Slash and those guys, but… just, to me, Axl was the most important part of that.”
Now, that’s not exactly an inflammatory comment – in fact, it’s pretty even handed – but it’s still hard to imagine, say, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum (to say nothing of Izzy Stradlin) not taking serious issue with Shadows giving Axl so much credit and saying Velvet Revolver is for people with short attention spans.
So, I gotta wonder: did Shadows and Slash discuss Axl being the most important part of GN’R when Slash played with A7X last night?
Thursday, January 24th, 2008 at 3:38pm by Axl Rosenberg
Thanks to MetalSucks reader Devin Kelly for bringing this one to our attention…
The Confession, the melodic pop metal band whose album Requiem was produced by Avenged Sevenfold’s M. Shadows (and whose sound bore more than a passing resemblance to A7X), have apparently called it quits. A posting on the band’s MySpace page reads as follows:
Monday, October 15th, 2007 at 12:10pm by Vince Neilstein
This recent interview (courtesy of Melissa Smith of Prime Video Magazine) with M. Shadows (vocals) and Synyster Gates (guitar) of Avenged Sevenfold proves what anyone who has seen/heard interview footage of M. Shadows already knew: M. Shadows is kind of an idiot. The guy may be a sick performer and talented vocalist — hell, I’ll even give a nod to his abilities as a producer of both the Confession and his own band — but just listen to the guy talk, and Einstein he ain’t. Let’s just say that it isn’t a stretch to figure out why this guy actually thinks our troops are fighting for American freedom in Iraq and that there actually is an Iraq/9-11/Bin Laden connection.
Avenged Sevenfold will be released October 30th on Warner Bros. Records. Visit Avenged Sevenfold on MySpace to hear the new single “Almost Easy.”
The Starbucks Incident
