American - Musician | July 31, 1981 -
One thing that was frustrating to us, always, was having to do so much press building up an album, and you're asked so many questions about, you know, is it more melodic, is it heavier, are you doing your old stuff, is it new?
M. Shadows
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We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.
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When I was very young, it was Guns N' Roses and Metallica. I'd play air guitar on my bed. They've been the thread throughout my life.
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I've had friends who've had depression or been on medication because their pituitary glands aren't giving out enough hormones - so I've been around a lot of people who've had problems like that. I've always been open to talk about that.
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As we develop, I just see us following our heart on this musical journey.
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I've always been a really open person around my friends.
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When we were writing the 'Stage' album, we realized we'd never really done proper covers, where we were taking songs and making them our own and kind of playing around with them. I came up with the idea of doing a cover of 'Wish You Were Here,' but we didn't really want it on the record.
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I just think that a metal band covering a bunch of metal songs is so boring, so 'done before.'
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The thing about covers is that the first thing you're going to notice is the vocals, because it's not the same person.
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I got an email saying we were nominated for a Grammy, and I instantly thought it was a joke. So I started Googling the nominees, and there we were!
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I think 'The Stage' is kind of left field.
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I feel like our whole discography up through 'Hail to the King' was young, fun, and exciting. It was aggressively driven. 'The Stage' was the first step in the band becoming a more mature musical entity.
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