Avenged Sevenfold release powerful new track "We Love You"
Multi-platinum rock band Avenged Sevenfold have released a new track We Love You, an ode to decrying the rat race.
“More power, more pace, more money, more taste,” M. Shadows delivers the unforgettable lyrics that relate to what keeps us pushing and being the motivators and destroyers of our self and reality. The song depicts the forced feeling our society pushes on us to consume, push, stretch and empty everything we can, if not halted result in possibly our own downfall. Avenged Sevenfold are masters at dynamic transitions over the course of one song, and this is no exception.
The music video for We Love You is no less ambitious. Artist Ryan McKinnon, using Unreal Engine, has crafted an enveloping, innovative visual experience which has been optimized for Oculus in VR and 360 on YouTube. The visualizer begins in the peaceful natural world, before the pressure of society takes over and the world starts building at a crazy pace.
The band's highly anticipated eighth album, “Life Is But a Dream...” drops on 2nd June via Warner Records and you can pre-order the album HERE.
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 (with 2010’s “Nightmare” and 2013’s “Hail To The King”) to go along with over a billion video views and a billion-plus Spotify streams, as well as multiple No. 1 singles on rock radio. The band (comprising M. Shadows, Synyster Gates, Zacky Vengeance, Johnny Christ, and Brooks Wackerman) is equally known for their spectacular live shows, selling out arenas and headlining the world’s most prestigious rock festivals as well as always being at the forefront of rapidly changing technology, cultural mile markers, and new ways for communities to engage.
The band have a string of North American dates planned for the summer to support the new album’s release. We’ll keep you posted on news of a UK/Europe tour as soon as we hear it.
If the new track We Love You is anything to go by, we’re excited for the new album... Revolver described it as having “droning chanting sections, Slayer-esque thrash parts, schmaltzy crooning, weird electronic swells, guitar pyrotechnics, acoustic strums, woo-woo backing vocals, slide fucking guitar and in-your-face commentary on our "more is more" culture. Shit is nuts, and we dig it.”
Kerrang thought that “across its six-minute run time, it takes in everything from techno to thrash, with fans praising the band’s brilliantly bold experimentation and Mr Bungle-esque feel”
The new album is out 2 June and is available now to pre-order HERE
