AVENGED SEVENFOLD Likes To Party Hard In 'Bat Country'

February 7, 2006

Launch Radio Networks reports: AVENGED SEVENFOLD's current single, "Bat Country", is the band's tribute to late author Hunter S. Thompson and his classic book, "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas", also the basis of a 1998 movie starring Johnny Depp. Guitarist Synyster Gates and singer M. Shadows told Launch that the California-based group visits Vegas regularly and does it best to recreate Thompson's wild adventures there. Commented Gates: "It's like three or four hours away, and we always go up there, the band and everybody, and just, it's really, really insane, you know. It's just basically like the movie." Added Shadows: "And that's pretty much, yeah, what we do when we go to Vegas, you know. It's all pure drinking, decadence, mayhem...that's probably about as far as we should go on that."

The video for the next single from AVENGED SEVENFOLD's "City Of Evil" album, "Beast And The Harlot", debuted yesterday (Monday, February 6) on MTV and MTV2.

AVENGED SEVENFOLD plays in Cincinnati, Ohio tonight (Tuesday, February 7).

The group has dates booked through February 19 in Fresno, California.

M. Shadows recently said that the band has been offered a slot on this summer's Ozzfest. No acts have been officially confirmed for the festival. An AVENGED SEVENFOLD DVD is also in the works, possibly for release this fall.

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