Zacky Vengeance: A7X will celebrate City Of Evil and Nightmare anniversaries in 2025

Fresh from another monumental Download headline slot, Avenged Sevenfold guitarist Zacky Vengeance has teased that the band will celebrate a couple of big anniversaries in 2025.

With third album City Of Evil and fifth LP Nightmare turning 20 and 15 respectively next year, Zacky tells NME in a new interview that A7X will “absolutely” honour those records in some way.

Of course, onstage at Download frontman M. Shadows told fans that the band are “trying to come in 2025, but we don’t know yet”, so it’s obviously not clear yet quite how Avenged will be marking these big occasions, and if they will include any UK shows.

“I think those albums are really monumental and fans have grown with them,” says Zacky. “They’ve meant a certain thing to people at a certain place in their life, so I think it’s important that we do something.

“I never want to be a nostalgia act,” he adds. “I’ve always wanted to be as proud of whatever we put out today as I was when we put out those albums, but I’m totally cool with celebrating those albums because it was such a great place and time. Plus it’s actually fun to relive and play those songs and get those reactions. To bank our entire career off past successes, we can’t do it, but we’ll definitely do something to celebrate those albums though. For us, the most exciting thing about looking back is recalling where our heads were at when we were young and writing them. Remembering that they’re part of who we are.”

Watch this space…

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