AVENGED SEVENFOLD Guitarist Interviewed On Montreal's RADIO X 91.9 FM (Audio)

August 10, 2013

This past week, Carl Monette of Montreal's Radio X 91.9 FM conducted an interview with AVENGED SEVENFOLD guitarist Synyster Gates. You can now listen to the chat using the SoundCloud widget below.

According to The Pulse Of Radio, AVENGED SEVENFOLD has continued its ongoing relationship with game publisher Activision by contributing a song to the final pack of downloadable content for the wildly successful game Call Of Duty: Black Ops II. The final content pack, called Apocalypse, will be available on the Xbox Live online entertainment network from Microsoft on August 27. Among its features will be a Zombies experience called "Origins", which will include the brand new AVENGED SEVENFOLD track "Shepherd Of Fire" from the band's upcoming album "Hail To The King".

AVENGED SEVENFOLD debuted a new song called "Carry On" last year on the soundtrack of Call Of Duty: Black Ops II, with the band also appearing as characters during the game's closing credits to perform it.

Singer M. Shadows told The Pulse Of Radio about the work involved in turning AVENGED SEVENFOLD into video game avatars. "We had two full days of motion capture, so the band went in there, put on silly outfits and we danced around and pretended like we were playing in front of an audience. Hopefully none of those pictures will leak. But we did that, and then we went in there and for vocals I had to sit there and put my head in this vise, and they did motion capture of me singing the words a bunch of times. Between acting and pretending that you're playing onstage when there's nobody there, it was a pretty fun experience."

Call Of Duty: Black Ops II arrived in stores last November and sold in record-breaking numbers.

"Hail To The King", AVENGED SEVENFOLD's sixth album and the follow-up to 2010's chart-topping "Nightmare", is out on August 27.

AVENGED SEVENFOLD will begin a fall headlining North American tour on October 3 in Chicago, concluding on October 26 in Las Vegas. Support on the road trip will come from DEFTONES and GHOST.

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