iCast: Avenged Sevenfold

Don’t miss Guitar Center’s Drum-Off Grand Finals! Saturday, January 10, 2009 – 7pm The Music Box at Fonda Theater Hollywood, California This is an all-ages show. Tickets are $15 at www.TicketWeb.com

Adrian Young (No Doubt), Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters), Kenny Aronoff, The Rev (Avenged Sevenfold) and Danny Carey (Tool) Among Panel of Top Judges for Guitar Center’s Drum-Off 2008 Grand Finals

After months of local and regional competitions held at each of Guitar Center’s 214 stores across the country, the top six undiscovered drummers in the nation have been selected from a field of nearly 5,000 competitors. The six finalists will go head to head on Saturday, January 10th, 2009 at Guitar Center’s Drum-Off Grand finals in Los Angeles for a prize package worth over $45,000, as they perform in front of a capacity crowd at the historic Music Box at Fonda Theater. The show will also feature performances from drumming greats Nicko McBrain (Iron Maiden), Jason Bittner (Shadows Fall), an exclusive collaboration by Thomas Pridgen (Mars Volta) and Thomas Lang and a headlining performance by Papa Roach. The evening will be hosted by Stephen Perkins (Jane’s Addiction).

CLICK HERE for more information!

Voting season is still underway and now Metal Hammer has just released their Readers Poll for 2008. Head over HERE start voting!

Hey Everyone-

Writing to you before our show tonight and we are so excited to play for all of our fans out here in Indiana! We can't wait to get on stage and see all our fans in the front row! This tour as been great so far and we have been having such a fucking blast! We can't believe how many of our true fans are showing up at all our shows and kicking ass! It's only going to get more insane as the tour keeps going so hopefully you got YOUR TICKETS to the upcoming shows because tickets are selling quickly! We can't wait to see the rest of you guys on this tour!

-A7X

Get your tickets HERE for the remaining dates on this tour:

Wednesday, Nov 19 @ 6:30 PM Roberts Stadium Evansville, Indiana
Friday, Nov 21 @ 6:00 PM Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, Michigan
Saturday, Nov 22 @ 6:30 PM Chevrolet Centre Youngstown, Ohio
Sunday, Nov 23 @ 6:30 PM Schottenstein Center Columbus, Ohio
Tuesday, Nov 25 @ 7:00 PM Bancorp South Center Tupelo, Mississippi
Wednesday, Nov 26 @ 6:30 PM Mississippi Coast Coliseum Biloxi, Mississippi
Friday, Nov 28 @ 7:00 PM House of Blues Myrtle Beach Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Saturday, Nov 29 @ 7:00 PM Greensboro Coliseum Complex Greensboro, North Carolina
Sunday, Nov 30 @ 7:00 PM JAMES BROWN ARENA Augusta, Georgia
Tuesday, Dec 2 @ 7:00 PM Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center Tallahassee, Florida
Wednesday, Dec 3 @ 7:00 PM NEW UCF ARENA ORLANDO, Florida
Friday, Dec 5 @ 5:15 PM City of Palms Park Ft Myers, Florida
Saturday, Dec 6 @ 7:00 PM Cruzan Amphitheatre West Palm Beach, Florida
Sunday, Dec 7 @ 10:00 AM Ford Amphitheatre At the Florida State Fairgrounds Tampa, Florida
Tuesday, Dec 9 @ 6:00 PM Rams Head Live! Baltimore, Maryland
Wednesday, Dec 10 @ 7:00 PM Rams Head Live! Baltimore, Maryland
Friday, Dec 12 @ 7:00 PM House of Blues Atlantic City Atlantic City, New Jersey
Saturday, Dec 13 @ 6:30 PM Chevrolet Theatre Wallingford, Connecticut
Monday, Dec 15 @ 7:00 PM Pavillon de La Jeunesse Quebec, Quebec
Tuesday, Dec 16 @ 7:00 PM Metropolis Montreal, Quebec
Wednesday, Dec 17 @ 7:00 PM Sound Academy Toronto, Ontario

We have gotten some pretty cool shit over the years, but thanks for our fans for sending this to us! Check out the USC Marching Band doing our song "Almost Easy" during their halftime show! CLICK HERE to check out the footage!

Voting is just warming up and Avenged Sevenfold is now up for HEADBANGERS BEST OF '08! Get out there and vote HERE

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We have been checking out the videos already posted on YouTube for the Scream Contest and we fucking love them! There's only two weeks left to submit your entry so get all yours friends together and show us what you can do! If you haven't seen our previous blog then here's all the info:


We decided since our fans love our new single "Scream" that we wanted to see what you fuckers can do with a video camera and whatever is floating around in your crazy head! So here's the deal, make your own "Scream" Video, upload it to YouTube and win a Macbook Air loaded with all of our shit! Check out all the details HERE! You only have a two weeks left so you better get started now!

This week Avenged Sevenfold's "Dear God" video will be on Steven's Untitled Rock Show on FUSE! Check your local listings and be sure to tune in!

Also don't forget to vote every day for FUSE "Best of 2008!"

Hey guys,
There are a few tickets left for this week's shows in Bloomington, Milwaukee and Madison. We've been having a great run with Buckcherry, and the last few shows have sold out. So we want to make sure you can get in.

CLICK HERE to get tickets for Bloomington.
CLICK HERE for Milwaukee.
CLICK HERE for Madison.

CLICK HERE for more dates.

Want to be our profile picture on Myspace? Send us your best live picture of the band from the current tour and Avenged Sevenfold will hand select a winning photo each week to be their Myspace profile picture! Make sure to send one photo along with your name and which show you attended to a7xtourpicture@gmail.com. Don't forget to check back to see if your photo makes it on our Myspace page!

If you haven't gotten your tickets yet then hurry up and get your them HERE

We had an incredible win over 3 Doors Down on Fuse's Best of 2008! However it isn't over yet! Avenged Sevenfold is now up against Slipknot and this isn't going to be an easy win! We need all our fans helping us in round two so CLICK HERE to vote!