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Tag: Avenged Sevenfold

  • Avenged Sevenfold To Kick Of North American Tour In Buffalo

    Avenged Sevenfold announced the third leg of their North American “Life Is But A Dream… Tour,” set to kick off in Buffalo on March 6. Featuring special guests Poppy and Sullivan King, the tour includes 16 shows across the country for an exciting new leg of the tour.

    Avenged Sevenfold tour poster

    Avenged Sevenfold formed in 1999 in Huntington Beach, CA, and have released seven studio albums and sold over 8 million copies since their beginnings. Now consisting of M. Shadows (vocals), Zacky Vengeance (rhythm guitar), Synyster Gates (lead guitar), Johnny Christ (bass), and Brooks Wackerman (drums), the group is promoting their most recent full-length release, Life Is But a Dream…

    Avenged Sevenfold Photo Credit: Steve Thrasher
    Photo Credit: Steve Thrasher

    The third leg of the Life Is But A Dream… Tour kicks off on March 6 with a show at Buffalo’s KeyBank Center. The band will make stops in Toronto, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, and Raleigh, before finishing off with a show at Newark, NJ’s Prudential Center on March 31. 

    General onsale for tickets will begin on December 1 at 10AM. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general onsale. More information is available at avengedsevenfold.com and LiveNation.com.

    AVENGED SEVENFOLD LIFE IS BUT A DREAM…NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES LEG 3: 

    Wed Mar 06 – Buffalo, NY – KeyBank Center 

    Thu Mar 07 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena 

    Sat Mar 09 – Cleveland, OH – Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse 

    Mon Mar 11 – Grand Rapids, MI – Van Andel Arena 

    Wed Mar 13 – Cincinnati, OH – Heritage Bank Center 

    Fri Mar 15 – Des Moines, IA – Wells Fargo Arena 

    Sat Mar 16 – Lincoln, NE – Pinnacle Bank Arena* 

    Mon Mar 18 – Moline, IL – Vibrant Arena at The Mark 

    Tue Mar 19 – Indianapolis, IN – Gainbridge Fieldhouse 

    Thu Mar 21 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena

    Sat Mar 23 – Manchester, NH – SNHU Arena 

    Mon Mar 25 – Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paints Arena 

    Tue Mar 26 – Columbus, OH – Nationwide Arena 

    Thu Mar 28 – Knoxville, TN – Thompson–Boling Arena 

    Fri Mar 29 – Raleigh, NC – PNC Arena 

    Sun Mar 31 – Newark, NJ – Prudential Center

    *Without Sullivan King, Featuring Support from Vended

  • Avenged Sevenfold Announces MSG Show on June 23, Supporting new Release

    Multi-platinum headliners Avenged Sevenfold announce the release of their new single, their first since 2016, titled “Nobody,” as well as a show at Madison Square Garden on June 23.

    Avenged Sevenfold madison square garden
    Photo by Rebecca Sapp/WireImage for the Recording Academy

    To date, Avenged Sevenfold has sold over 10 million albums worldwide and earned two consecutive No. 1 albums on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart as well as multiple No. 1 singles on rock radio. They have garnered over a billion video views and a billion-plus Spotify streams. Their new track “Nobody” is the band’s first official music release since their 2016 album, The Stage, delivering nearly six minutes of twists and turns, leaning in on the sense of discomfort before letting go.

    The official video for the track, directed by Chris Hopewell, is beautifully crafted in stop-motion style, unfolding like a short film. It takes the viewer through the exploration of life and death, love and war, and follows the main character through an existential crisis. The band teased the single through an elaborate and mysterious digital scavenger hunt with puzzles, ciphers, images, and blog posts all written by Chat GPT, DALL-E 2, and AI voice modifiers, leading fans to a website for more challenges, eventually “unlocking” the single on release day.

    Their new record Life Is But a Dream was recorded over the last four years, drawing inspiration from Albert Camus’ classic 1942 novella, The Stranger, due June 2. Avenged Sevenfold is supporting the release with two shows this summer- one at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, CA, on June 9 and the other at Madison Square Garden on June 23. Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 17, with more information available here.

    On top of that, they have a number of festival dates scheduled, including a headline run Welcome to Rockville 2023 in Daytona Beach, Florida on May 19, and performances at the Sonic Temple Art and Music festival in Columbus, Ohio on May 26 and Aftershock 2023 in Sacramento, California on Oct. 5.