"A lot of it is you get old school fans who want the older stuff, but you're also trying to introduce the newer fans to the old stuff as well," he says. Shadows says that he definitely has his preferences. While the label always has the ultimate say in what songs goes in, M. Having a streaming service that's shooting videos at people and you're competing and getting into songs is really good for people like us because we need people to be excited about what we do." People are doing a lot of different things, so any way that we can get in front of new people, and any way that we can get people to focus on music, that's good for us. "When I was growing up, it was really important When my dad was growing up, it was very important – music defined generations – and now music's just kind of an afterthought. "Streaming means that new things are going to be put in front of people and right now – you can argue this til the cows come home – music is not as important to people nowadays as it used to be," he says. He also is optimistic about what Guitar Hero Live's GHTV could mean for bands hoping to promote their music. It's the best way for artists to get outlet."
We keep doing it because not only are we fans of games, but the fan base keeps growing because of games. We used to go play shows at the House of Blues and you'd get the security guards going like, 'You guys do that song? I heard that on Madden!' Throughout the entirety of our band, we've been involved in video games whether it's Black Ops or Guitar Hero or Madden and there's been this whole fan base that's heard of us strictly through video games. "He loved our record and we were the first band to not be from a major label to have music in a video game. "The first thing we ever did was – we knew this guy Steve Schnur who worked at EA and he was putting together music for Madden back in the day," he says. The vocalist tells us that having the band's music in video games has proven invaluable over the years. "The people at Activision are like a part of our family for so long now, so we wanted to do something special for Guitar Hero just because Activision has been so good to us and try to stay really loyal to their games." "We're going to need to figure out which ones are going to be the most technical for the fans – we want to put up some cool technical stuff – and which ones are going to translate best to that setting," M.
So, instead of putting out a track that everybody's already heard, these are going to be exclusive tracks just for Guitar Hero."Īvenged Sevenfold has provided music for the Black Ops series in the past, establishing a strong relationship with Activision. While they haven't determined the live songs that will appear in Guitar Hero Live, the band is currently picking from a list of seven songs.
what we're going to do with our exclusive content is you get to see an Avenged Sevenfold crowd at Download Festival or Mexico City – we're still working out the details – and kind of see what it's like on stage as one of us and playing three live tracks that you can't get anywhere else. "The whole idea of the game being from the artist's perspective and looking at a crowd. "We are offering fans exclusive content if they get the game pre-release," he tells us.
Shadows, lead singer of Avenged Sevenfold acknowledges the band's history with the series and says the band wanted to do something different for Guitar Hero Live.
While Activision and Harmonix have given the Guitar Hero and Rock Band communities several tracks from Avenged Sevenfold's catalog in the past, the band is joining forces with Activision to provide special content for the upcoming Guitar Hero Live. Ever since "The Beast and the Harlot" challenged players in Guitar Hero II, fans of Avenged Sevenfold have requested more of the band to appear in the series.