In a special finish and designed to replicate the guitar Synyster plays onstage, the Schecter Synyster Custom S Electric Guitar boasts outrageously heavy tone.
'We're just big fucking music geeks but we really did focus hard on crafting it, wanting to be controlled chaos rather than everything just being fucking insane at all times.''It was just those "what if" moments. It tended to be a little bit more of the ridiculous kind of things and unorthodox techniques, but those were what made us smile, so we had to go with that.'And so Avenged will continue with The Stage World Tour, bringing thousands together but not taking it for granted.
'The Avenged family is increasing and increasing and we're so fortunate for that,' he smiles.
We ended up trusting him and Warner Brothers Records and in the end we are glad that we did.
Craig had not only been a personal friend to us through the years, but also helped spearhead many of the band’s successes.” , but is best known to Avenged fans as the father of guitarist Synyster Gates, aka Brian Haner Jr.
They had really great guitars that played really well, so we tried to get signed by them.
They hadn’t heard of us at the time, so they were like, “We don’t really know.
Avenged Sevenfold guitarists Synyster Gates and Zacky Vengeance take us deep inside the very heart of the stage…Backstage at the London O2 Arena, inside a room with a revolving wall that leads into a blue creative suite stacked with vinyl and magazines, through a secret bookshelf that opens into a games room, we find Avenged Sevenfold guitarists Synyster Gates and Zacky Vengeance.
The Californian quintet will be playing their biggest headline show on these shores in under an hour - the first of two nights in the largest room the capital can afford - though you would never have guessed it from their calm, measured demeanour.
In fact, has been about that at every step, whether making their own Deathbot, the album itself or getting pals like Chris Jericho to troll fans with fake release dates.
'We really thought the album was going to be hit or miss to be honest because we were having so much fun,' he laughs. [For the bot] someone would ask a really stupid question that we'd already thought of and we'll have a completely random answer – when you see kids hit those things, the shit you're excited about, then it gets really exciting. ''That was what really excited us, to do the kind of things that made us laugh.
Warner Brothers A&R executive Aaronson signed A7X to the label from Hopeless Records in the summer of 2004, having previously brought Green Day, My Chemical Romance and The Used to the label.