Through My Words / 2011

Originally published in Metal Hammer magazine (UK) 214 · February 2011

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Avenged Sevenfold’s M Shadows has spoken out about the band’s split with Mike Portnoy and accused the ex-Dream Theater man of being too “press-release-happy” about his split from DT. Shadows said: “We were actually a little shocked. We felt that maybe both parties could have handled it a little more internally without being so press-release-happy about what had happened between them. Because we’re a band that, really, when it comes to news all over web sites or this or that about bands. We don’t tweet much, we don’t try to put ourselves out [there] that much, and all the drama and controversy wasn’t something that we wanted at all.” We just wonder who will sit behind the drums next...

Originally published in Metal Hammer magazine (UK) 214, February 2011.

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