I was a fan of 'Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2,' and I got into 'Call Of Duty: Black Ops,' which was my favorite 'Call Of Duty' game of all time. M. Shadows More Quotes by M. Shadows More Quotes From M. Shadows I think Kanye West is brilliant at what he does: he's got a different live show, different merch for every tour, different vibes, and he just puts out great records. M. Shadows live great think vibes We do a lot of things that kind of annoy people and our fan base. We try not to get overloaded on it. For us, that means we don't do social media stuff - we have an Avenged Sevenfold social media, but none of the band members have Facebooks or any sort of Twitter. M. Shadows try social-media media people If I ran the Grammys, it would probably go bankrupt. M. Shadows grammys bankrupt would go When I'm by myself asking the questions that many of us do at some point in our lives, I look to the stars knowing that the answers are somewhere out there waiting to be discovered. M. Shadows myself look stars waiting We live in the realm where all the metalheads and rock fans know us, but we're not giants like Linkin Park or Black Sabbath. M. Shadows live know black fans I've always been a really open person around my friends. M. Shadows open person always friends All I can say to people who don't think depression is a real thing, or say 'just suck it up and get over it' - they just really have no idea. You have to give people the benefit of the doubt that they're doing the best they can to get through it. M. Shadows best you depression people When we were writing the 'Stage' album, we realized we'd never really done proper covers, where we were taking songs and making them our own and kind of playing around with them. I came up with the idea of doing a cover of 'Wish You Were Here,' but we didn't really want it on the record. M. Shadows never you wish writing I just think that a metal band covering a bunch of metal songs is so boring, so 'done before.' M. Shadows think band boring done The thing about covers is that the first thing you're going to notice is the vocals, because it's not the same person. M. Shadows going person about you I got an email saying we were nominated for a Grammy, and I instantly thought it was a joke. So I started Googling the nominees, and there we were! M. Shadows joke saying thought email Honestly, I never thought we'd get a nomination for a Grammy, period. To be honest, we felt that if we were ever going to get one, we thought we had 'City of Evil' and 'Nightmare' and 'Hail to the King,' and those were all big records, and they never even sniffed at us. M. Shadows king city thought evil I think 'The Stage' is kind of left field. M. Shadows i-think think left stage I feel like our whole discography up through 'Hail to the King' was young, fun, and exciting. It was aggressively driven. 'The Stage' was the first step in the band becoming a more mature musical entity. M. Shadows king step feel mature
