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AVENGED SEVENFOLD Announces September/October 2023 North American Tour With FALLING IN REVERSE

AVENGED SEVENFOLD has announced the second leg of its extensive "Life is But A Dream…" North American tour featuring support from FALLING IN REVERSE . Produced by Live Nation , leg two includes stops in Nashville, Denver, Austin, and more before concluding at Fort Worth's Dickies Arena on October 15. Fans will have the opportunity to hear the group's first single in seven years, "Nobody" , and their new album "Life Is But A Dream…" for the first time live during the 30-show outing.

The first leg with support from ALEXISONFIRE includes thirteen cities across the U.S. and Canada, such as Mansfield, Québec City, Tinley Park, Calgary, and more. The group kicks off their 2023 solo touring run with two unique one-night-only arena shows in New York and Los Angeles this June.

Tickets will be available for the newly announced shows starting with a Deathbats Club and TicketPass presale beginning now through Wednesday, April 12 at 3 p.m. EDT. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general on sale beginning on Friday, April 14 at 10 a.m. local time on LiveNation.com. For all other shows, tickets are on sale now at LiveNation.com.

Deathbats Club members and TicketPass holders can request tickets first from now through Wednesday, April 12 at 3 p.m. EDT using Ticketmaster 's new Token-Gated Sales platform at avengedsevenfold.io/. Deathbats Club is a collection of 10,000 unique Deathbat NFTs, made popular by AVENGED SEVENFOLD , flying around the Ethereum blockchain. A Deathbat is a membership card into the club and offers many perks and access to events that will take place in the "metaverse" and in real life. TicketPass is a new blockchain based verification and rewards system, created by AVENGED SEVENFOLD and Bitflips , for anyone that chooses to participate. It is free, eco-friendly and requires very few steps to make sure fans can acquire the tickets they desire. All fans have to do is set up a MetaMask or Coinbase wallet and AVENGED SEVENFOLD will airdrop them a TicketPass immediately.

During the Presale window, fans will use their Dapp wallet (MetaMask, Coinbase, Etc.) to authenticate their access and then submit their request for tickets. After the request period closes, they will receive a confirmation from Ticketmaste r if tickets matching their preferences have been secured. This process will give exclusive access to token-holding fans with priority for the Deathbats Club community.

M. Shadows of AVENGED SEVENFOLD shared more on the unique ticketing platform: " TicketPass will by no means cost anyone any money, you won't have to get involved in cryptocurrency, you won't have to do any of these things that people feel uncomfortable with, and the token that we're going to be using is on the Polygon network — an environmentally-friendly blockchain. We want to roll something out to the rest of our fan base without them having to opt into a full fan club experience that is strictly for tickets and ensuring our fans get the best tickets they desire first,

"At the end of the day, we want to know your feedback on if this worked well for you, and we will take notes and mold this for you. Look at this as a frequent flier miles type of program — with AVENGED SEVENFOLD , we will be breaking these passes into 'tiers' over time and rewarding the people who have been participating the most in our A7X ecosystem (with merchandise, listening habits, music consumption, live events, and other metrics.)."

AVENGED SEVENFOLD "Life Is But A Dream…" North American tour dates leg 2 (newly added shows):

Sep. 16 - West Palm Beach, FL - iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre Sep. 17 - Tampa, FL - MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre Sep. 19 - Charlotte, NC - PNC Music Pavilion Sep. 20 - Alpharetta, GA - Ameris Bank Amphitheatre Sep. 22 - Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena Sep. 25 - Maryland Heights, MO - Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre - St. Louis, MO Sep. 26 - Kansas City, MO - T-Mobile Center * Sep. 28 - Denver, CO - Ball Arena^ Sep. 30 - Salt Lake City, UT - USANA Amphitheatre Oct. 02 - Tacoma, WA - Tacoma Dome Oct. 03 - Portland, OR - MODA Center Oct. 07 - Chula Vista, CA - North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre Oct. 08 - Phoenix, AZ - Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre Oct. 10 - Albuquerque, NM - Isleta Amphitheater Oct. 12 - The Woodlands, TX - The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion Oct. 13 - Austin, TX - Germania Insurance Amphitheater Oct. 15 - Fort Worth, TX - Dickies Arena

* Not a Live Nation date ^ Without FALLING IN REVERSE

AVENGED SEVENFOLD "Life Is But A Dream…" North American tour dates leg 1 (previously announced):

Jul. 18 - Camden, NJ - Freedom Mortgage Pavilion Jul. 19 - Mansfield, MA - Xfinity Center Jul. 21 - Québec City, QC - Videotron Centre Jul. 22 - Montreal, QC - Bell Centre Jul. 24 - Ottawa, ON - Canadian Tire Centre Jul. 26 - Clarkston, MI - Pine Knob Music Theatre Jul. 28 - Tinley Park, IL - Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre Jul. 29 - Minneapolis, MN - Target Center Jul. 31 - Winnipeg, MB - Canada Life Centre Aug. 02 - Saskatoon, SK - SaskTel Centre Aug. 04 - Edmonton, AB - Rogers Place Aug. 05 - Calgary, AB - Scotiabank Saddledome Aug. 07 - Vancouver, BC - Rogers Arena

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Avenged Sevenfold’s new album: Everything we know so far

Over five years on from The Stage, we’re finally getting closer to album eight from Avenged Sevenfold. And there’s a lot to get excited about…

While 2022 will undoubtedly bring a whole lot more uncertainty to the world, one thing that is for sure this year is that new Avenged Sevenfold music is finally on the way. The Huntington Beach metal kings have been working on the follow-up to 2016’s The Stage for quite some time now , but have experienced hold-ups due to the pandemic, as well as simply making the collective decision to delay the record until live music properly resumes.

Now, though, with confirmed European tour dates in the summer (and the word from M. Shadows that album number eight will be out before then), it’s time to round-up everything we know so far about A7X’s next steps…

The album should be out in the first half of 2022

As we just mentioned, Avenged’s first live show is currently happening in Belgium on June 17 – though of course they could have more lined up before then that haven’t been announced. And last July, M. Shadows told Louder Than Life that new material will be out ahead of the first performances of this new chapter: “We’re booking shows for next summer, and the record will be out before then,” he confirmed.

They’re hoping to have it all finished very soon

Speaking to Metal Hammer , the vocalist explained that in January the album’s strings will be completed by a 70-piece orchestra in Prague. Then, “we finish the record in February, mix it in March.” Since The Stage, a fairly casual approach has been taken with the whole thing, the band not rushing or breaking restrictions just to get it done. “We have all these things we can’t do,” M. told Kerrang! in December 2020 . “We’re still trying to get string sections together, and our mixer is older and I know that they don’t want him to travel right now because of COVID, so even if we got it done right now, we couldn’t get it mixed. So we’re just not worrying about it, you know? It’s like, ‘When we can, we can.’ But right now, we can’t ( laughs ).”

The band had good reason to take their time

“The reality is – and no-one wants to hear this – in this day and age, rock’n’roll just takes too long to make,” M. stated of not rushing things this time around with the state of the world as it was (and still is). “It’s going to be a three-year record to make. And if we put that record out and then we’re locked down for another year, as much as people don’t want to believe this, they are not going to give a shit about a record that came out a year prior when it’s time to tour. And so if it’s going to take us two or three years to write a record, we’re not going to put it out if we can’t go play it live.”

The album will have a huge accompanying stage show

…but, the creation of it has also been affected by coronavirus. M. told Loudwire , “We can’t get the supplies we need to build it, which there’s a supply chain problem as well. Go look at Long Beach, look at the port right now, and these boats are just stuck there. And so we have all these things going on where we’re not gonna come back onstage and have the stage from The Stage record and then just go, ‘Well, same show four years later. Sorry, guys. The record’s not done ’cause we couldn’t finish it.’

“So I would just say starting in January, we are gonna put our nose to the grind and we are gonna finish this record. And then we’re doing a couple of shows in Europe. And then I would love to – and I don’t wanna step on [festival organiser] Danny Wimmer’s toes here – but I would love to start at Aftershock [in October] and then book a tour out from there.

“So, we’re gonna be doing stuff. But yeah, it’s just kind of making sure we’re mentally there and we put our best foot forward when we do come out and make sure that’s all good.”

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And NFTs will likely play a key part in the cycle somehow

Avenged got big into the crypto world last year, launching their own Deathbats Club – not just as a community for their listeners, but also by way of connecting with fans on a whole other level. In December, for example, they airdropped their NFT holders two free gig tickets, plus some exclusive art. Surely this is how they’ll start teasing out new material when the time comes, too?

New music is “wild”

“The record sounds nothing like The Stage,” M. told K! in December 2020 , “it’s a completely new direction, and it sounds nothing like anything we’ve done. That’s all I’ll say about it: it’s over the top, and it’s very eclectic and wild.”

And they’ve embraced brand-new influences

…from Kanye to jazz. Yes, really. “We’re very influenced by Kanye West,” M. revealed to Metal Hammer. “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, 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.”

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