According to M. Shadows, Avenged Sevenfold are not in a hurry with their new album: “We’re gonna release it when we wanna release it”

US metal band Avenged Sevenfold have been quietly working on their next album. Only a short while ago, the band’s frontman M. Shadows said in an interview that the album is scheduled for release by summer 2022.

Now Shadows tells us a bit more about the album release in a recent episode of the Tuna On Toast With Stryker podcast.

“We’re really just trying to make sure that everybody mentally wants to go on tour and support a record, that it’s gonna make sense to support the record — it’s not a stop-and-go situation. We’re gonna release it when we wanna release it. That’s just the bottom line. People seem to think we work for them”, Shadows says and continues:

“At the end of the day, everyone needs to decide, ‘I’m ready to go support a record.’ … You just have to make sure you’re mentally there for it. I don’t wanna maybe come off like we have all these problems in the band — we don’t — but people are also very cognizant of their life and how it is right now and they wanna be happy doing things, and I think the fans want us to be happy doing things.”

“We are very much happy into this digital realm we’re going into and the NFTs, and we’re gonna be happy when the record comes out. And when we do shows, we’ll be happy doing them. But just know that if we’re on stage, then we’re in a good place.”

Avenged Sevenfold’s previous album “The Stage” was released in 2016.