Avenged Sevenfold, who are set to unleash their next studio album in October, have produced the effort themselves.
"We met with a lot of different producers and felt that we would be going more in their direction rather than doing what we wanted to do," says frontman Matt Shadows. "We wanted to make our record. We've spent a lot of time in the studio, and we've learned how to do everything. It was the only way we would be able to get our ideas across, 100 per cent, to our fans."
For more info, be sure to pick up a copy of next week's Kerrang! magazine for our exclusive studio report.