Avenged Sevenfold frontman M. Shadows has told MTV.com that his band wants to set the record straight so there's no confusion: they are a heavy metal band.

 

"When you go to our live show, it's a full-on heavy metal show" he said.

 

The clip for the first single, 'Bat Country', spent more than a week as the 'TRL' audience's top pick. "We want our shows to be respectable heavy metal shows. We're a rock and roll band, and we want kids to know that."

 

Avenged Sevenfold, who launched a 26-date co-headlining tour with Coheed And Cambria on Friday night in Poughkeepsie, New York, will play a number of dates this summer with Metallica and Guns 'n Roses.

 

"They're doing a bunch of festivals over in Europe [this June], so, we're doing all the off dates with Gn'R and Metallica," Shadows said. "They asked that we do all the festivals with them as well. So we have, like, a full month of just GN'R/Metallicadates coming up. We'd grown up listening to both of those bands, and they're like icons to us. It's good to go out there and get to meet those guys."

 

Avenged Sevenfold have met Metallicaand GnR frontman Axl Rose before, and Shadows said the experience was "super cool." Metallicasinger James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich made it out to an Avenged Sevenfold gig in San Francisco some months ago, and a connection was made.

 

"They're just the coolest dudes, nothing's better than meeting your idols and them being super cool to you," he said.

 

Source: Blabbermouth

 

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Hah. A7X are utter legends :heart: . They're well G-Unit.

They are just the bestest band, bar none. :heart:

Syn well looks like he has lipgloss on in the second to last pic in that sig I gave you ^_^ .