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We've never been shy to admit that Metallica is a huge influence in our lives and on our music.
Johnny Christ
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When you're concentrating on just the music, you're not thinking about anything else.
Johnny Christ
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These fans are the reason why we're here. They're awesome and very crazy. They love Avenged Sevenfold, and we love them. Having that is rare.
Johnny Christ
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We always mess around with riffs and stuff and kind of jam out during sound checks, but we never actually started playing covers live until we started goofing off a little bit more on stage.
Johnny Christ
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Every riff had to be perfect and heavy, collectively what we wanted it to be. If there was one person in the room who went, 'Heh, I don't think it is there yet, guys,' we'd scrap the whole song. I think that took a little bit of songwriting maturity for us.
Johnny Christ
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I just don't have time to really sit there and worry about someone disliking what we put so much effort into.
Johnny Christ
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When it comes right down to it, no, we're not religious at all.
Johnny Christ
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We wanted to do something different and have a surprise release. At first, naturally, the label was getting a little scared about that, because they wanna sell records, and a surprise release means it might not go as quickly.
Johnny Christ
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If we're compared to Metallica, the greatest metal band in the world, I think that's actually a pretty damn good compliment.
Johnny Christ
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The fans have always been die-hard and awesome. That's why we do a lot of the things we do.
Johnny Christ
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It wasn't until high school that I realized Avenged Sevenfold was picking up locally.
Johnny Christ
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You really have to play with the space in a riff so it can be allowed to breathe.
Johnny Christ
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We are just happy to be together and out and traveling the world together.
Johnny Christ
