In tomorrow's exclusive cover story, Avenged Sevenfold frontman M. Shadows tells Kerrang! how, this time last year, his band were on the brink of imploding.
Avenged Sevenfold cancelled their November 2006 UK tour blaming cancellation on the rigid release schedule of their record company, telling fans via their official website that "if we don't get in the studio now Warner Bros can't release [our next album] until 2008 and that would suck."
That, however, was only a partial truth. Behind the scenes, the pressures of being on the road, the hard living and the success of City Of Evil was staring to take its toll on all the band members.
"We feel really bad for the UK kids," frontman M. Shadows tells Kerrang!. "We feel bad that we had to do that to them and I know they take it a little harder then other kids around the world because kids in the UK are very passionate about music. But I think, in the long run, it was the greatest thing we could have done for the future of this band.
"If we hadn't," he continues, "I know we'd be looking back in three or four years from now realising that was the point where we knew the band was going to split up."
For the full sorry, pick up a copy of tomorrow's Kerrang! magazine.
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