Avenged Sevenfold’s new album is “best served as a whole and consumed en masse”

Fresh from yesterday’s absolutely massive return, Avenged Sevenfold have revealed a tiny bit more about their long-awaited eighth album Life Is But A Dream.

Following 2016’s epic The Stage, the Huntington Beach titans have already confirmed that their new record will be similarly ambitious, as it ‘was inspired by the writing and philosophy of Albert Camus’, and is lyrically rooted in ‘existentialism and absurdism’. But a description on their webstore teases a little bit more about what to expect – and also how to listen to it (which is probably something long-time A7X fans will be doing anyway).

“Avenged Sevenfold’s new album, Life Is But A Dream, is best served as a whole and consumed en masse to truly appreciate its musical breadth and sonic depth,” they say. “Written and recorded over the span of 4 years, it was produced by Joe Barresi and Avenged Sevenfold in Los Angeles and mixed by Andy Wallace in the Poconos, PA.

“The album is a journey through an existential crisis; a very personal exploration into the meaning, purpose and value of human existence with the anxiety of death always looming.”

Watch the video for new single Nobody below:

The webstore also reveals the album tracklisting, which is as follows:

1. Game Over
2. Mattel
3. Nobody
4. We Love You
5. Cosmic
6. Beautiful Morning
7. Easier
8. G
9. (O)rdinary
10. (D)eath
11. Life Is But A Dream…

Here’s the artwork:

Speaking to Kerrang! in December 2020, frontman M. Shadows teased: “The record sounds nothing like The Stage – it’s a completely new direction, and it sounds nothing like anything we’ve done. That’s all I’ll say about it: it’s over the top, and it’s very eclectic and wild!”

Life Is But A Dream is due out on June 2 via Warner Records.

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