That’s where you need the guys who know how to EQ it up and allow everything to settle. In terms of the production value, I have to do what I do, and then we have a guy like Joe make sure I cut through it all, and then we get a guy like Andy Wallace in there who knows exactly what to do - how to round out the guitars a little bit more, or where you place the vocals to make sure they cut.
As a vocalist, how do you make sure you cut through all that? Do you say, “Hey, I need to be placed upfront in this mix”? Especially on a song like Creating God, is that a conscious thing when you’re working on it? And we had Bob Ludwig master all of it to match up as much as possible.Īvenged Sevenfold mixes can be very heavy and very detailed in terms of the heavy guitar tones and the double kick and bass drums. You may hear some differences, but all of the tones really came from the same spots. The only thing that was different with the B-sides is that we had Joe Barresi mix those, whereas we had Andy Wallace mix The Stage. And that’s why I was really proud of the band, because, production-wise, adding on six or seven more songs after you’ve been in the studio for two or three months can really be taxing. That was the plan all along - to have the record evolve in that way. We actually recorded 90 percent of those covers while we were recording The Stage. We just went in the studio, knocked it out, gave each other high-fives, and we loved it!īecause The Stage had a certain quality level to it, did you have to make sure the bonus material level-matched the album’s original 11 songs in terms of tone and production, and also make sure your vocal placement was similar in those mixes? Songs like God Only Knows are pretty tough songs to tackle, especially in terms of how people are going to look at it when it’s done.
The other criteria was we had to be able to take the song and visualize us actually doing it different enough from the original song, but also keeping it true to the original as well. We just wanted to pick some things we knew we could have fun with by those artists we really enjoyed and who were really influential on us. “Songwriting should always be the main focus of your music.”
“He had given me a hard drive of every show of that tour right before he passed away, so I wanted to put his stuff out there to both remember him and give the fans an extra bonus.”ĭigital Trends got on the line with Shadows (real name: Matthew Sanders) to discuss how you know when certain songs are the right ones to cover, his views on the possibility of going to Mars and A.I., and the key differences between being an opening act and a headliner. “I felt the live tracks would be cool to do as an added-value memorial to Shirt,” vocalist M. The live tracks also carry some extra weight behind them due to the recent, unexpected passing of the band’s live sound engineer for the past 12 years, Dave “Shirt” Nicholls. To that end, Avenged Sevenfold doubled the number of Stage tracks by adding one unreleased cut ( Dose), six somewhat surprising covers, and four punishing live tracks recorded at the O2 in London while they were opening for Metallica on their recent European/U.K. “I love hearing where some of our older songs have gone. " So Far Away" is a song by Avenged Sevenfold.
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