"AVENGED SEVENFOLD chose the easiest possible way - big arena drums, simplified songs and easy choruses, that you can sing along with even if you hadn’t hear the tunes before. In fact I am the last person on Earth who has anything against the big sound and simple but effective song structures.

What’s more, I’m not one of those people who hate DEF LEPPARD’s “Hysteria” (quite the contrary, I loved that album); neither do I have anything against the big arena anthems of AC/DC. I do not despise the Black album with some kind of elitist condescendence, but who needs an AVENGED SEVENFOLD version of it in 2013? It seems a lot of people do. I don’t."

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