The California metal core actВ has set an October 16 release date for the self-titled follow-up to 2005’s “City of Evil”, the bandВ breakout LP that’s sold more than 800,000 copies in the U.S. alone. The album is their first attempt at self-producing.
AVENGED vocalist M. ShadowsВ said last month that the band had no problem producing the CD themselves. “We met with a lot of different producers and felt that we would be going more in their direction, rather than doing what we wanted to do,” Shadows said. “We wanted to make our record. We’ve spent a lot of time in the studio, and we’ve learned how to do everything. It was the only way we would be able to get our ideas across, 100 percent, to our fans.”