Some A7X News

Avenged Sevenfold is going to be releasing a new album. The album is said to be coming out on July 27, 2010. Their new song 'Nightmare', from the up coming album, will be available to be downloaded in the iTunes store on May 18, 2010.You can go to the bands website to hear a short preview of the new song.

Avenged Sevenfold will also be touring this summer. This is part of the Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR tour. The tour starts on August 17, 2010 and ends on October 4, 2010. Avenged Sevenfold will be performing along with Disturbed, Stone Sour, Halestorm, Hellyeah, Airbourne, Hail the Villain and New Medicine.
Avenged Sevenfold will also be playing at Heavy Mtl in Montreal on July 27, 2010. Mike Portnoy, Dream Theater drummer who helped the band finish the album, will tour with them as their drummer.

Here's what Zacky wrote on the band's site:

After being so kind and caring to help us in the studio, the rumors are in fact true and Mike Portnoy will indeed be helping us on the upcoming UPROAR tour later this year. We hope to see you all out on the road. We are very grateful to Mike for dedicating his time and talent to help us get back on the road so we can be where we need to be the most which is with our fans. Much Love and Respect

Zacky V

A7X

Friends

isnt it awsome when you have people to talk to about the blackest shit going on in your life? they're always there for you, no matter what. my best friend was there for me when i split from my boyfriend, and again when it turned nasty. i know that no matter what, i always have a shoulder to cry on. someone i can run to when i'm falling apart. So i just gotta say, i love my girls, they're my awsome support network, and i'd be lost without them. Much love to Lisa, Chantelle, Claire and Clare. you're my girls till the end. much love and kisses Ladies. You make my life ROCK!!!!

Learning Guitar.

i just started learning to play guitar and i never really realised just how hard it is to teach myself to play. i started off by getting books out of the library but i couldnt work out how to read them, see, i'm a left handed guitarist and i was trying to learn to play right handed. so back to the library i went, and searched until i found a left handed book.

then my next problem was my strings, they needed replacing so i've been running around searching for cheap guitar strings for an accoustic guitar. and after i got them it was a simple matter of stringing my guitar. but when i went to tune it, my tuner broke and i have no money to buy a new one. suddenly guitar is starting to look very difficult, but i've yet to give up on it.

let's just hope that once i'm able to tune it, things will get easier.

Yay, escape the fate are gearing up to record again, i cant wait. i recently came across this post on their myspace and just had to share

**Before we enter into the studio to record our brand new album, we wanted to leave you with a little reminder of why Escape The Fate is taking over the world in 2010!!! On April 27, we’re releasing a deluxe expanded edition of This War Is Ours. It’s got two unreleased tracks “Bad Blood” and “Behind The Mask,” a remix by Clown of Slipknot called “This War Is Mine” and it comes with a DVD that features a badass new video for “This War Is Ours (Guillotine Part II),” all of our other videos from the album, our first world tour documentary and a behind the music feature. Watch our trailer for the deluxe here and pre-order that shit now at the Epitaph Store. **

Frank Iero and MCR

Oh My God, i just found out Frank and his wife are going to be having twins later this year, how freaking cool. it's about time that MCR had something good happen. as frank has recently posted on a blog on their site

"Last, but certainly not least, I am proud to announce the addition of two new members to the MCR extended family. Recently, my wife and I found out we will be having twins later on this summer. I cannot express in words how happy this makes us, it seems everything’s turning up Milhouse. I just can’t wait to meet the little ones, and may God have mercy on the world now that there will be 2 more Ieros wreaking havoc on the earth."

Among the excellent news that there will be two mini-Frankie's running around and causing mischief, the new album by the band is doing "swimmingly". personally i cant wait for new stuff by MCR, they are apparently going back to the sound they had on "Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge" and "I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love". i'm super excited to hear what they've been working on.

some revelations of the year so far.

so far this year has been interesting, one of the best surprises ive had are that avenged sevenfold are recording their new album, but some of the surprises i've had were out of the blue, eg, Bob Bryar and My Chemical Romance parting ways, someone tried to tell me he'd been fired, but i think it had to do with a pretty seriouse wrist/ arm injury. all i know is it's sad, first gerard getting sick and now bob leaving. but i also happened to knotice that two of my fave bands have had issues to do with the drummer. probably just a coincedense.

another surprise i had this year so far is that i realised that strangely enough, of all my friends, i seem to be the only one with no interest of setteling down, and yeah, i'm only twenty, but a lot of my friends have either bought places with their boyfriends/fiance's, or they're having babies. sure i want kids eventually, but at twenty, i know i'm still a kid, i'm not ready to get married, have kids, and honestly, the whole white picket fence deal has absolutly no appeal to me, but you know what does? Travel. i want to trevel to America, Rome, England, France.

honestly, when my friends ask what i see for the futer, it isnt kid's and it isnt marrige, it's travel, and they just cant seem to understand why. most of the girls i know seem to think having kids early is the way to go but i'm all for witing till i'm twenty eight. besides, i can help them raise their kids. well, we'll see, i cant say what the future holds but for now, travel is definatly something on my horizon.

Soundwave 2010

ok, so it's been almost a week since soundwave but i just had to post how freaking amazing it was. Shinedown and Escape The Fate were definatly the highlight of my day. the bands i got to see were AFI, Him, All Time Low, Paramore, Eagle's of Death Metal, Anti Flag, Placebo, Creepshow, Shinedown and Escape The fate. i ended up with pretty bad heatstroke, to the point i was throwing up, but i wouldnt change the experiance for the world. this was my second time attending Soundwave, and if youv'e never been, it's one thing you have to do.

one thing that makes it a bit difficult is the fact the days get up towards 40oc heat. i watched a girl get dragged from the moshpit unconciouse because she overheated, and one of my group had to go home with severe heat stroke, so water is a massive must. i seriously cant wait for next years Soundwave, ive got my fingers crossed for Avenged Sevenfold and Bullet For My Valentine to play.